Training has officially begun and the first week was a success. Based on numerous training schedules that I’ve perused and machinated to fit my needs, it appears that my key workouts are going to consist of three successive days of long and ‘challenging’ runs. These runs will be on the trails, on hills, and/or (unfortunately) on treadmills set at steep inclines. Speed is not the focus of these runs…time on my feet at incline will be. Wednesday morning was 60 minutes on the treadmill at 11-15% incline, Thursday was a 75 minute trail run at Fair Hill, and Friday was a 90 minute treadmill run at 11-13% incline. I also threw in a 20 mile bike ride Thursday night. At this point in time, my glutes feel like they could make a movie about me and name it after Terrance and Philip’s famous biopic, though obviously for different reasons. (Ironic, considering most of you would agree that, at any other time, this movie title would be appropriate for me for the very same reasons as it is for T+P!)
Thursday’s trail run was probably the first time I ran in the woods at FH (or on any trail) in over 5 years. Damn it was nice! I really miss running on trails. That is definitely what I miss most about my switch from FH to APN. It was also wonderful being on a real road bike for the first time ever. Justin is letting me train on his bike and the difference between that and my non-tuned-up, 10+ year old P.O.S. mountain bike that hadn’t left my basement in over 5 years was amazing. Riding from home to Rte 1 took 80 minutes on my bike and just 67 on Justin’s. Sweet ride!
I’m happy the first week’s difficult workouts are finished. But that was easy. Maintaining this effort for the next 12 weeks and gradually increasing these runs into the 3, 4, and 5 hour range is daunting. Daunting? How about terrifying? Its moments like these where I think about Ian sitting in Wyatt’s room moments before the missile shoots through his bedroom floor and he screams “I’m shitting in my pants!!!” Fortunately, I’m not wearing a bra on my head.
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