I never did get out and finish up those 9 miles that I bailed on. I figured out that the humidity combined with poor carb-loading
the day before caused me to dehydrate and made me pretty miserable. I finished
up my training week and continued on, slightly worried about the next long run
of 10.5 miles. I had some decent evening runs and ran a solid 4 miles last
week. It took me a good week to recuperate from that epic fail. I was dreading
my mileage increase and actually started to dread my short 30-minute runs.
Afraid of my run? That has not happened to me before and I was quite ashamed.
Then, I was gifted the best present in the whole wide world, this beautiful
thing:
Source: Nordic Track
The Nordic Track C900 Pro. I actually ordered the C900, on
sale with a 10% off coupon AND free shipping. They were out of the C900 and
upgraded me (free of charge) to the C900 Pro! It came early Friday afternoon.
It took me all day to assemble it. I woke up Saturday morning more sore than I
have felt after racing a half marathon. My quads hurt from all the up and down during assembly. I guess I need to start incorporating squats into my weight training? I
actually had to take a hot shower last night and then rub my quads down with
icy hot to loosen them up for this morning’s run. It worked.
I set my alarm for 6, got up and ate some oatmeal and
crawled back into bed with half a cup of coffee. When I was able to focus my
eyes clearly, I got back out of bed and put on my running skirt. I wanted to
start by 6:45 so I could be done shortly after the boys woke up. Too bad the
noise of me on the treadmill woke them up! I was only half a mile in when they
came out of their room. They did enjoy watching me run. For ten minutes. Then
they moved on to more important things like playing chess or with their legos.
I did experience some technical difficulties due to user
error. I was 1.25 miles in and decided it would be a good idea to move the key
clip to me so the machine would turn off if I managed to tumble. I didn’t
tumble, but I did manage to unplug the machine and it deleted my stats from the
screen. I plugged it back in and made the mental note that I was running to
9.25 miles instead of 10.5. For some reason, I remember that I had just burned
200 calories but can’t remember the time. Ha! My next “technical difficulty”
was around mile 8.5 (give or take some mileage). I didn’t realize that the
machine would turn off after 1.5 hours of use. It did. Thankfully it kept my
distance and I could quickly turn up the speed to the pace I had been keeping.
There is nothing worse than running at a set pace and then have it slow down
unexpectedly. Next time I will anticipate this turn off.
I wore my race vest full of water and kept and handheld
bottle of nuun on the cup holder. I took a gel at mile 4 and at mile 8. Even
though I was running inside, I didn’t want to dehydrate myself again. I only
took walk breaks at mile 4 (with a gel), mile 7 (my legs were needing a rest
due to the sore quads) and mile 8 (second gel). The
unplanned walk break at mile 7 was due to my legs not being used to running
longer distances.
It is hard to run any distance on it with the screen (slowly) counting
up your distance but once I hit 5 miles I knew I was halfway done and
it seemed to go quicker. I would consider today’s run an epic success! I know
that training for a marathon on a treadmill is not ideal, but in this New
Orleans humidity, I need a reprieve! The good news is that it is a flat course
AND the humidity will be much less in February.
It’s a great day for running y’all!
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