Ugh.. discouraging weekend. I am trying to shake it off..
Ended up resting Saturday with the intention of having my long run (15ish miles) be on Sunday.. Looking at the weather forecast was a little annoying, but I hoped I could find a pocket of time to get it done.
I had to go to my grandmother's Sunday to visit with family, but primarily I just try to play with my little cousins (ages 3 and 1) because little kids amuse me greatly. When they are not yours, its fun because you can be as sarcastic as possible and they don't grasp it, and their infinite energy does not annoy you because you only need to deal with it for an hour, not forever..
Of course I ended up having to unearth this gigantic bush in the yard for her and fairly sure I pulled about 78 muscles because its awkward as hell trying to get those things out of the ground.. The afternoon dragged on and finally I was just like "Ok, I need to go home or I am going to miss daylight, good bye".. I went home and hurried my warm up I usually do because I just wanted to get going and miss the rain..
Today proved to be worst case scenario training..
I was going to go from my house to Brighton Center by St Elizabeth's, take the turn to Comm Ave, and basically do a giant "out and back" the whole way from Brighton to where Comm meets the Pike.. The whole Newton hills region of the course.. I got about a mile in, felt ok, ankle was a little iffy.. Got 2 miles in, started raining/misting.. I decided right then I wasn't going to do all 15 miles in the rain because I wasn't dressed for it, and I didn't want to break my iPhone.. 3 miles in, hamstring started to tighten up, had to stop and stretch it a couple times.. I ended up not even making it into the hills and took the right up Lake St back toward my house.. Then the whole way up Lake St. I had to use the bathroom with nowhere in sight to go.. So I had to basically pick up the pace back to my house for a photo finish into the restroom.. I called it a day after 4.6 miles.. Really lousy attempt today.. I am pretty pissed.. (The only good thing is I was not even breathing heavily or strained cardio-wise, it was just a bunch of other factors at play screwing me over..)
As I sit here writing this Monday morning my hamstring behind my right knee hurts like a bitch and my right big toe has that swollen "turf toe-y" feel to it.. I may need to be really careful this week training wise.. The number one thing about Marathon training from what I have been told is just "to be healthy on race day".. I may need to tailor back the planned training and mileages to make sure that happens.. Fuck.
In a sad attempt to do "something" at my house I decided to try some heavy single arm dumbbell presses just because I was sitting there having a pity party for myself and I really had no idea what I was capable of lifting overhead one hand at a time..
I did some warm ups.. 25 x 10, 35 x 6 each arm..
Then I tried 45x3, 50x3, 55x3 (failed on rep 2 with my left hand). The went back down and did 45x3 each side twice.. Interesting little exercise.. Weird to me that I can do about 150 ballpark with a barbell once shoulder to overhead strict, but could not get 55 on my left side overhead even for 2 reps.. The math does not equal out the way you'd think..
I would try this again, it wasn't too taxing, but just sort of an interesting experiment for strength overhead..
Food
Was away from my computer this weekend and forget some of my meals & times, but I really didn't eat all that perfect.. I think I had some eggs and some meat for breakfast every morning, but the rest of my meals were not really on par in the sense of the challenge..
Had some steak tips and stir fry veggies Sunday Night, Ribeye Steak wrapped in bacon with asparagus Saturday night.. Those meals were ok, but my lunches were pretty piss poor (BLT sandwich, and I think I only had a bag of veggie chips on Saturday).. And I snacked on some Chips and Spinach/Artichoke dip, M&Ms, Coconut Milk Ice Cream a bunch of times here and there throughout the weekend.. Oh well.
This stuff is dangerous
