Monday: Rest Day (technically)
Since my beer club was meeting in downtown Brooklyn, and I finished work a bit early. I decided to hop on a Citibike and ride from work to Brooklyn, which was about 10 miles.
I really enjoyed my ride along the Hudson River, which is pretty beautiful around dusk. During my bike ride, I was wondering why I stopped biking. Maybe after NYC Marathon, I'll get back into biking again. Well . . . maybe not. I think that I stopped doing long bike rides (50+ miles) because I became annoyed about constantly having to change my bike's tires.
Of course, having a nice IPA after the 10-mile bike ride was a very well deserved reward because those Citibikes are quite heavy.
Circa Brewing Company, Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday: 3mi
An easy treadmill run. Nothing groundbreaking to write about. Well . . . I think that I was supposed to run 5 miles. Oh well.
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: Hill workout and x-training
I think this workout might have screwed me up for Saturday's long run. I probably did too much during this workout. Since it was raining outside, I decided to do my hill workout a treadmill. Note to self: No more hill workout on treadmills at New York Sports Club.
The workout plan was to do 0.25 mi "sprints" on a 7-8% incline with a 0.25 mi cool down on a 2% incline. The workout was going pretty well until the 2nd to the last interval when the treadmill started to freak out a bit. Unfortunately, the treadmill's speed controls stopped functioning so I had to literally jump off of the belt. The crappy state of NYSC's cardio machines is a major pet peeve of mine. For example, on several occasions, I've had to move to 2, 3, 4 different cardio machines to find one that works properly. Ugh.
I have been trying to include more strength training for this marathon. Mainly, I'm doing to high rep/low weight for these sessions.
While training for last year's NYC Marathon, I noticed that I would have soreness in my hip abductors, especially after my long runs. Now, I have been trying to focus a bit more on my lower body. I thought that my weight training season went pretty buuuuut . . .
Friday: Rest
Saturday: A hot mess
The plan was to run 14 miles. Unfortunately, I managed to run only 1.6 miles because my hip abductors were very sore. I figured that it would be better to reattempt the run on another day rather than struggling through the run. Also, I did not have the motivation or desire to fight through my soreness for another 12.4 miles. I think that I will have to give myself a longer recovery time after my strength workouts, especially if I'm doing anything other than easy runs on the same day. I do not think that I'm too injured because both my left and right hip abductors were sore. Maybe I just overworked the muscles on the hip abductor/adductor machines.
At least I was in high hopes just before starting the run.
Sunday: 4mi
At first, I was going to reattempt the previous day's 14mi run, but I knew that I would not have enough time for the run before going on some random Sunday adventures. Instead, I decided to run a few 800m intervals on the treadmill after a 1mi warm-up. Fortunately, this treadmill did not give me any problems.
Random:
I am really enjoying Matthew Futterman’s Running to the Edge, which contains a series of stories about Bob Larsen’s quest to train elite U.S. mid- and long-distance runners.
Random II:
For some reason, I have been jamming to Laura Pausini all week. Hopefully, she will have another concert in NYC very soon.
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