Week 4 recapThis week included my longest run ever: 2 hours and 2 minutes. It was only Monday of the week and I was worrying about the run. Would I be able to complete it? My left knee has been bothering me. Nothing major, just enough to be a nuisance running. I made sure to really stretch through the week, which seemed to help! So, week recap:
Monday: 40 minute Gipis marathon training run and Week 4 BBG Arms and Abs Tuesday: Week 4 BBG Legs and Cardio Wednesday: 40 minute Gipis marathon training run Thursday: 40 minute Gipis marathon training run Friday: REST Saturday: 2 hour and 20 minute Gipis marathon training run Sunday: Week 4 BBG total body The last time I ran over 2 hours was my 1/2 marathon back in October. By the end my body hated me and I felt like I was 100 years old. I was expecting to feel the same after my 2 hour and 20 minute training run, but surprisingly, I did not! I'm really impressed with how well my training has prepared my body for the run. I'm not an experienced runner, so for me 2 hours and 2 minutes is like "whoa!". I took goos with me, which ended up being expired.. YUCK. I only had one though. The texture wasn't right and as I finished the first one, I had a feeling it was expired. Thankfully my genius husband suggested I bring clementines with me. So, he pealed and separated a clementine out for me and bagged it up. It really helped! It was weird chewing the first few times. But I felt better each piece I ate throughout the run. I also noticed that at the end of this run my stomach didn't hurt. After my 1/2 marathon, my stomach was upset for the remainder of the night. I must admit I almost cried when I got home after my run. I usually run Gipis & Nike+ simultaneously, but for a long run I was concerned my battery wouldn't last so I only ran Gipis. With about 20 minutes left my music stopped so I took my phone out of the inside of my jacket. Somehow, I'd gotten locked out (I'm guessing that it considered my jacked rubbing an attempt to unlock and after a few 'bad tries' it locket). I try to unlock my phone and it said to wait 1 minute. I'm panicking! I know I have about 20 minutes left because it gave time remaining updates every 10 minutes from 40 minutes down to 10 minutes. The last I had heard was 30 minutes and I knew I had run almost 10. Finally, I get my phone unlocked and it says 21 minutes left. I decide that my phone will not freeze in 20 minutes so I put my armband back on over my jacket. 10 minute warning comes and goes... I'm in the parking lot near my house. I usually have to run around the parking lot at the end of my runs so I take a peek at my phone to see I have a little of 3 minutes left... then it happens. Music stops. No big deal, I think to myself. Then I realize my phone completely turned off. It must of crashed because when it turned back on I had 60% battery. So, I don't know my splits and I don't know if I beat my half marathon time. I think I might have because I ran the entire time, during my half marathon I had to walk a few times. But, I'll never know. I think I am going to invest in a GPS watch so that doesn't happen again. What type of GPS watch do you use? So, here is the total of my first month's journey to 1,000 miles Week 4 mileage: 25.7 miles Month 1 miles: 94.4/80 905.6 miles left!
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