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Monday, March 16, 2009

I ran 2 miles today on my lunch break. I think by now that my coworkers find it a common practice to see me running during the day. I was only supposed to run 2 miles according to my training schedule. And I sure was glad it was only 2 miles. I have shin splints from Saturday and my calves are still very sore. Needless to say it was a long two miles.

I'm supposed to run 6 on Wednesday, but I'm going to wait and see how my legs feel. I may put it off another day to let them rest because this weekend I'm supposed to run another 7 miles. Saturday took more out of me than I thought.

I'm going to try to start back strength training. I hate it. I have yet to get 'into strength training'. But I'm going to try to see if I can work 2 days of strength training into my work out routine.

Hopefully my legs will cooperate with me this week and I can get the rest of my runs in...

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