They all can’t be good...

I stepped onto the marathon course and pain shot up my legs. The soles of my feet felt like a thousand razors were slicing them open with each step I took. This can’t be good. The crowd is cheering for me and Simon is next to me saying to keep going. But the pain. Oh the pain!! I hear a talk radio in the distance. What the heck IS that? I jolt awake - it’s just my 5am alarm going off. It was just a dream. Phew, because that sounds like a sufferfest of a marathon.


After all the long, hard training I did this weekend I was looking forward to my brick workout today. Saturday I got in my first 20 mile run and I actually felt pretty great. Well, as great as you can feel for running 20 miles. Sunday was a long ride along 9w. I also felt pretty good and my legs weren’t as tired as they were the weekend before.

So a 20 mile bike ride (with Harlem Hill repeats) and a 6 mile run didn’t sound too awful after the mileage this past weekend! Well, I was in for a surprise.... As soon as I pushed my pedal down, right in front of my apartment building, I knew I was in trouble. I had nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. No power at all coming from my fatigued legs. I guess the weekend finally caught up to me. I pushed through my workout with 15.5 miles at a 17.1 average - not too bad considering the hill repeats and the state my legs were in. Then came the run. Oh boy.....

My first mile running back up to Central Park actually didn’t feel so bad. I was supposed to run one mile easy and 5 miles race pace. I was definitely running “easy” back up the hill to the park but it was about the same pace I’ve been running for these brick workouts. Then came my race pace miles. um, yeah. They were slower than my warm up mile!!! wtf?!? I had to stop and walk TWICE. I wasn’t even overheating. My heart rate was low for a change. My legs just did NOT want to cooperate at all. It was so frustrating. So I decided to do a loop around the reservoir and call it day at 2.3 miles. Huge bummer.

I am not a big fan of waking up at 5am only to bail on my workout! But, what can ya do? I have some mile repeats tomorrow so hopefully I’ll feel better for them. Looking forward to loving my training again like I did this past weekend! I am lucky though, since I’ve been working with my coach there’s only been 2 workouts that I’ve had to bail on due to feeling crappy. I’m very grateful for that!