5 Mile Long Run Complete! 14 More Days Until Race Day!
Today's Workout: 5 mile long run.
Today was an excellent workout day. I woke up in the morning in Santa Monica, and from my bed, I tapped out a 5-mile route on my map app on my iPhone. Then I got up, got dressed, and was out the door with my music.
I never skip a long run, no matter what, when I'm training for a race. Most training plans have only one long run a week. To train for a race, you don't run miles and miles every single day. If you do long runs every day, you're overtraining and you run the risk of injury. The training plans I use have shorter runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a medium run on Wednesdays, and one long run on the weekends. Not only is this a manageable routine, but it's good for those with work or school schedules.
When I do my long runs, I don't try to rush them either. Since I'm not a competitive racer, I just make sure I complete the distance. Even if I have to walk some of it, I make sure the distance gets covered.
Long runs are great ways to boost your confidence psychologically as well. Every time I complete a long run, I'm one mile closer to my race distance, and I am that much more sure I will be successful on race day. As a DS friend once told me, running is as much about the approach as it is about the training. It's a mental exercise, not just a physical one. And has mental rewards too, as well as physical :) It just makes you feel so good! Accomplishment, self-image, the feeling that you're actually fit... it's my meditation as well as my calorie-burner :)
Anyway, enough rambling. I've not any photos of this run, but if you want to see Ocean Avenue, which is where I ran, check out this google maps photo.
Tomorrow's workout is stretch and strengthen. Since I did shoulders, legs, and abs last time, I am going to do arms, back, and abs tomorrow.
Here are some photos of yesterday's dragon boat race!
Today was an excellent workout day. I woke up in the morning in Santa Monica, and from my bed, I tapped out a 5-mile route on my map app on my iPhone. Then I got up, got dressed, and was out the door with my music.
I never skip a long run, no matter what, when I'm training for a race. Most training plans have only one long run a week. To train for a race, you don't run miles and miles every single day. If you do long runs every day, you're overtraining and you run the risk of injury. The training plans I use have shorter runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a medium run on Wednesdays, and one long run on the weekends. Not only is this a manageable routine, but it's good for those with work or school schedules.
When I do my long runs, I don't try to rush them either. Since I'm not a competitive racer, I just make sure I complete the distance. Even if I have to walk some of it, I make sure the distance gets covered.
Long runs are great ways to boost your confidence psychologically as well. Every time I complete a long run, I'm one mile closer to my race distance, and I am that much more sure I will be successful on race day. As a DS friend once told me, running is as much about the approach as it is about the training. It's a mental exercise, not just a physical one. And has mental rewards too, as well as physical :) It just makes you feel so good! Accomplishment, self-image, the feeling that you're actually fit... it's my meditation as well as my calorie-burner :)
Anyway, enough rambling. I've not any photos of this run, but if you want to see Ocean Avenue, which is where I ran, check out this google maps photo.
Tomorrow's workout is stretch and strengthen. Since I did shoulders, legs, and abs last time, I am going to do arms, back, and abs tomorrow.
Here are some photos of yesterday's dragon boat race!
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