Well, the week started off kind of bleak. I injured my back, right up between my shoulder blades on the right side. I couldn’t even take a deep breath without wanting to cry. I had to forego the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday planned run/walks in order to get back to healthy. After a trip to the chiropractor and a one hour deep tissue massage, by this morning I felt ready to face the world!
My animals woke me up at 6am. They were hungry and really wanted to have breakfast. The sun was shining, so why was I lying in bed? Anyway, I got up, fed everyone and by then was unusually awake for me. Typically, I can crawl back into bed, but today, I started doing things right away. After getting the clothes off the line, I decided to do a short yoga workout from www.corepoweryoga.com This is an awesome site, and offers YOGA ON DEMAND. I have done a bunch of the classes in my one week trial and plan to sign up for a year of use. Those of you who come to my classes will benefit greatly from this subscription. The classes are AWESOME and I will be incorporating much of what I am learning into my power yoga class. They even have one called YogaSculpt, which uses weights. That is the one I did this morning.
I was then meeting Kasha at the lake at 10am to do a 7 miler, which was on my schedule for today. I biked down there (less than 2 miles from home) because why take the care out on such a great day? We met up, got started and had a great time talking. It was hot, but we kept up a pretty good pace, and did the run/walk as we are planning to do through the entire training. Kasha’s shoes have been bothering her for a while, rubbing against her toes, so she had ordered a new pair. They hadn’t arrived yet, so by the end of one trip around Lake Winona her toes were yelling at her. She bid me farewell and headed for home…barefoot I am sure!
I finished the last 1.8 miles (one more time around the small part of the lake) myself, and actually did it in less than 22 minutes! Then I hopped back on the granny trek and headed home.
When I got home, I still had a bit of energy in me, so I ate a cookie, and loaded up another yoga workout. This one was a vinyasa class with hip openers. Again, awesome class, with great instructors! I really need to sit down and just write down the sequences to use in class!
So, it was a good thing to take a few days off and let my back heal. It gave me a renewed energy. It also helped me to realize how much I missed working out everyday! It almost felt as if something was missing from my day. I will do another 7 miler tomorrow. It is on my schedule, which I really need to stick to! It looks like the plan I am using has a bit longer run on each of the weekend days, I think to help to build endurance.
I am still looking for a good marathon diet plan, so if anyone knows of one, let me know! I am one of those unfortunate people who doesn’t lose weight when I train, so even though I am putting in a ton more miles, I still need to restrict my calories in order to get down to marathon weight. I am hoping to lose 20-25 pounds before the big event in October.
Until later!
yogajen
