Weekly workout recap

First, thank you for all your kind words on my last post. Everyone was so wonderful in their comments. Positive energy is much needed on my end!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

 

Lets do  workout recap.

And and by-the-by, I am officially in the taper!!! Woooo. <– actually I don’t LOVE the taper. But so far no taper-tantrums. Well, more than my usually Emily-tantrums. Taper-tantrums and Emily-tantrums are hard to distinguish from each other. 

 

First. My foot. It is better. Thank God!! The swelling seems to be down (everyone reading this KNOCK ON WOOD, thank you very much!) I got taped from my PT. And iced. And elevated. And ran (the PT didn’t tell me NOT to run… I asked! Don’t worry). And 10 days later it seems to be okay. And my feet are gross. Oh and I discovered that bread pans were simply made for fitting a size 6 1/2 foot. 

 

 

Monday. 4 miles easy, some elliptical with heavy resistance, arm strength, stretching. It was dark and I didn’t know I was running quicker than ‘easy’ but apparently my legs felt nice. Go with it.

 

Tuesday.   9 miles. Forgot to restart my watch after stopping at a stop light near my apt. But it was nine miles. Felt good. I was crabby. The run helped me be less crabby. Story of my life. It was also really windy!!! I also did some PT exercises to strengthen my hips using a resistance band.

 

 

Wednesday: Spinning, abs, stretching

 

Thursday: 8 miles. I felt really tired on this run. Legs were lead. I have no idea what was up with that last mile. Clearly the legs were dunzo after seven but I was a mile from my apt. Oh legs. Love me. Thanks. Also went to a PM core class.

 

 

Friday: Swimming, elliptical, lots of stretching and a PM yoga class.

 

Saturday: 12 miles running and 20 mins elliptical. My foot was not happy on Friday so I decided I didn’t want to push anything. It felt good running (foot never hurt running except with it was super duper swollen because my shoe was so tight) but I told myself 12 miles at the maximum. Ideally, if my foot was perfect, I wanted to do 14. Therefore, I did 12 miles running and 20 minutes on the elliptical. This run was good. I had a Gu at mile 7 and my stomach didn’t cramp or anything and I felt good after. Wooo. Good work stomach. My legs were really tired. I think mostly I was worried about my foot. The sub-9:00 in the middle were with my group. I left them to turn around to make sure I didn’t have to take a taxi home and slowly made my way back home. 

 

 

Sunday: Swimming, easy, low-resistance elliptical, leg strength with a resistance band.

 

That is all I’ve got,

 

Xoxo,

Emily

 

 

 

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