Dallas Half Marathon Recovery Week

Monday: Rest.

Tuesday: Rest and traveled back home.

Wednesday: 4 miles with the group at 605.

Thursday: 4 way too fast miles with the group that typically runs trails on Thursday night.

Friday: 4.26 miles at the coffee run while watching shooting stars!!



Saturday: 6 miles at the group run before yoga at WoodGrain.

Sunday: Rest. I really wanted to go out for 3-4 really easy miles, but I was so sore, that I opted for a rest day instead.


Total Mileage: 18.4 miles

Ocean View Half Recovery Week

Week of November 6-12

Monday Actual: Rest + foam rolling + myofascial release and some targeted massage to my cranky calve.

Tuesday Actual: 60 minute yoga class and more foam rolling.

Wednesday Actual: 3 mile run at the 605 group run. Surprised at how good my legs feel. Also probably the last time that I'll get in a run in shorts in the near future. Sadsies.

Thursday Actual: 4 miles with the BRF after work. With full on WINTER in the house. Real feel of 12. Brrr.



Friday Actual: I meant to get up and do the coffee run, but after coming back from vacation and Kyle being out of town, I wanted to just SLEEP. I went to bed at 9:30 and slept until 7am! Uff.

Saturday Actual: I worked on Saturday and then went straight from work to the Foo Fighters concert. Does 3.5 hours of dancing and 5 hours of standing count as a workout, because then I did. Endurance standing? Is that a thing?

Sunday Actual: Skipped long run (see above concert fun and 1am bedtime). 90 minute miracle massage. Mmmmmm.

Total Mileage Actual: 7 miles. Feeling reeeeeal recovered over here!

Brookings Half Recovery Week

Week of May 15-21

Monday: I was finally able to take a cycling class at the new yoga and cycling studio in town. I was super excited, but planned to take it fairly easy since I was recovering from the race. 45 minutes flew by.

Tuesday: 60 minutes of POWER. I had wanted to do another cycling class, but I was pooped after POWER so I didn't.

Wednesday: 4 miles at the group run. My left knee didn't feel good before the run, I had a lot of pressure behind my knee cap. It didn't bother me during the run, but teaching yoga after the run was a challenge. I realized on my drive home from yoga that I hadn't foam rolled since Sunday so I remedied that when I got home.

Thursday: Rest and more foam rolling + stick. Left knee was really sore, couldn't extend it all the way.

Friday: See above. Grrr.

Saturday: I taught a 60 minute yoga class at the brewery. My knee was feeling better, but still not 100%. When it hurts to kneel and do cat/cow, it's probably not a good sign. I foam rolled a LOT after class and took an epsom salt bath.

Sunday: Another cycling class. So much fun, and I felt recovered enough to push myself more than Monday's class.

Recovery Week Training Recap + DNS Race Report

Monday and Tuesday I took full recovery days. I went to bed crazy early to make up for my 3:30am wake up call for Sunday morning. Finally Wednesday morning I woke up well before my alarm and my legs were itching for a run. I did an easy 2.5 before I had to head to work. I had some initial soreness in my left knee but that subsided shortly after the run started.

Kyle always makes fun of my green hat, so I picked up this one that was super duper on sale. paaaaaaank.

Thursday morning I woke up yet again before my alarm, ready for some more miles. These clouds turned dark and ominous by the time I finished up my four miler.

I took this run as another recovery run on a hilly route. On one hand my legs felt WAY better than the previous day's run, as my legs didn't feel nearly as heavy, but the muscles I used for the hills on Sunday reminded me that they were still recovery. Holy hip flexors.

Thursday I didn't feel very well, so I ended up going home from work a couple of hours early. I made myself a watermelon slushie to counteract some of the dehydration I was suffering from. Ollie approved. Majorly.

My stomach was still feeling wonky Friday morning so I scratched my shakeout run.

Before I went to bed Friday night, I checked the weather yet again for race morning, and saw severe thunderstorm threats. Ugh. I told Kyle that if it was storming when I got up to get ready for the race, I was just going to go back to bed. Sure enough, I was awoken by lightning, heavy rain, and what sounded like hail. I turned my alarm back off, and conked back out.

Naturally, the rain cleared up about 15 minutes before the race started, while I was at home, comfortable on my couch in pjs. In retrospect, I should've just planned to skip the run altogether when I added the Swan Lake half marathon to my schedule. It's pretty impossible for me to try to "run for fun" and I will likely always let my competitiveness take over. Had I done that on Saturday, I would've  set back my recovery from the half even further as a best case scenario, and worst case, I would've ended up injured from pushing too hard on legs that were still recovering. 

With marathon training starting this week, a fast-ish 5k isn't going to do me any favors, training wise. 

It ended up storming on and off all day long, so I didn't get any miles in at all. But we did break a 24 hour rain fall record with 2.6 inches. And with only 14 days of the month down, already have the June rain fall record. So yay us?

Thank goodness I didn't have a long run scheduled for this weekend, because all of my routes are flooded out!

I went out for an easy four around lunch time on Sunday. It was hot, humid, and sunny. I ran my hillier route. The first mile felt awesome, and then my legs started to feel like crap. It made me super happy that I didn't race the previous day's 5k. Woof.