Friday, October 8, 2010

Now, what y'all've been waiting for...

The marathon takes place at the end of Week n. 16...
Here is my past week's training schedule

My 1st Marathon 2010 – Week n. 14

Monday, October 4
 20’ slow running
 3’ stretching
 5 x (5 half squats / 100 mt skipping / 100 mt knee lifts /100 mt strides)
 15’ run

Tuesday, October 5
 rest

Wednesday, October 6
 5 x (15’ run / 2’ walking)

Thursday, October 7
 rest

Friday, October 8
 20’ slow run
 3’ stretching
 10 x 100 m strides
 3 x (3 km slow running / 2 km medium speed run)

Saturday, October 9
 rest

Sunday, October 10
 4 x (30’ run / 5’ walk)

The runs this week have been done with Danielle (!) or alone with my music. Sunday, which is not up there, we ran an hour and a half, up lots of hills and we survived. It was a lot easier than we thought. The funny thing is that all the other runs that I had this week that required hills were really easy to do too... Thankfully the course is pretty flat. Monday I ran a bit and did the intervals than ran home, got ready for yet another wedding, ran home and got ready for football practice. Although Tuesday was a rest day I was working on my feet from 630am to 9pm. I think I fell asleep for about 20 minutes sometime during the day. Wednesday morning I was supposed to run at 630 with Danielle. She asked me to call her when I woke up, which I did promptly at 6 to which her reponse was "No.". So I went back to sleep for an hour and went out for the run at 730. I pretty much the same route we did on Sunday just in the reverse order with some detours. I was so stiff when I started out, and tired but, it went well. The weather has taken a great turn around and I wish it could be like this all year. I hope that its like this in Italy the day of the marathon.

Today is Friday, which means many things. Most importantly that I have a crazy run to do before Shabbas starts and since I am having at least 13 people over for dinner I have to make sure my run is done in time. I don't have any busses to catch but I do have an apartment to organize and make sure its clean and presentable and that all the food tastes good. Thankfully yesterday wasn't too busy. I had a client at 630 and from the gym I went straight to the shuk. I love being there when I can walk around freely and talk to the vendors while they are unloading the produce. I was in and out within 15 minutes got home and cooked everything by 12. Brian supplied me with a soup recipe that I'm sure came out great. It was Chevi's birthday this week so I think it calls for a celebration with some wine and amazing chocolate liquor that I have... Too bad there's no whiskey.

Sunday is going to be another independent half marathon day. Should be interesting. I will be taking my water, sport beans and camera. Kind of like a trial run, just half the distance...

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