Rest Today
I’m taking a rest day today. Last night, my legs were killing me. My knees were in especially bad shape. Moreover, I was just dog gone tired. Today calls for an “Easy 5 miles”. Sorry, but I think if I tried it, I’d be overtaxing my body and risking injury. So after 3 straight days of training, I’m resting.
Thursday calls for a “Tempo” run (whatever that is) of 8.5 miles. I’ll rest again on Friday and try to get back on my regular schedule with a long run on Saturday.
Cool runnings. Stay tuned… 
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Hey Boss-
Tonight is a rest night for me too. I ran again last night and cut my 3 mile time down from 33:40 to 30:19. Not losing any weight from these runs, surprisingly. Plan to turn it on again tomorrow night with only 20 minutes of cardio and some circuit training. (Bis and Tris). Smoked shoulders, back and chest the other night. I will say, however that in the face of not really having lost any weight, I have definately slimmed down so I wonder if there is some incidental muscle gain going on. I am basically training to go into Special Forces but at a much slower rate. (No, I’m not putting the uniform back on, I’m just training LIKE I’m going back to SF) It is more like the PT I did at sniper school, but I can afford to break it down more scientifically with 6 week cycles of circuit training (light weights at 1 and 2 minute intervals) and 6 week cycles of strength training (80% of heaviest I can go) married to constant cardio, which I also try and mix up between running, elyptical, swimming and biking. One of the suggestions I should probably have told you (and you will hear varying responses to this) is strengthening your tendons with some sort of resistance training in addition to shock/impact training you get from running. This may cut down on risk of injury, at least that’s the Army’s theory. Seems to be working for me. You being a runner, you may get away with skipping the strength training as you don’t want to create extra lean poundage to carry with you on your runs, but circuit training provides constant resistance throughout the training interval and will definately benefit the tendons in those key areas (ankle, knee, hip, etc.) Should you choose to go this route, let me know how it goes. Anything I can do to help a brother.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
That’s not a bad idea. I wish I had the time/discipline/$$ to get into a gym for resisance training these days, but under the circumstances, it just ain’t happening.
I am doing pool workouts once a week for cross training. That may help a little. If anything, it will help get the lactic acid out of my legs. Besides, it’s never too early to start training for the Ironman!
Time will tell. Once things settle do down, I’d like to get back into the gym again.