training update

you know all my talk about not caring how fast i am or what my time is?


turns out i’m full of crap.

i hired a speed, strength and agility trainer. marquis. we started working out this week.

apparently not only do i care how fast i am, i have higher expectations for myself than i can achieve. i came home thursday night ticked that steve (who is sharing these wonderful horrific challenging exhilarating gut wrenching hour long training sessions with me) is stronger and faster than i am. yep, totally full of crap. that’s me.

he can run faster. hold his plank longer. run more stair repeats. (those are nasty).

do more bear crawl sprints and farther. (bear crawl sprints – get down on all fours and run like a bear. outside on the turf football field - to the 10 yard line and back, 20 yard line and back, 30 yard line and back.) when we were told we were now going to the 50 yard line i thought i would probably die. marquis told me i was going to the 30, not the 50. i thought i could go to the 50 as well, but as i stumbled and almost rolled across the 30 yard line with palms burned from the 110 degree turf, hands bleeding from stickers, i realized i wasn’t making it to the 50 and settled for success at the 30. thoroughly peeved that steve made it to 50 and i couldn't.  happy for him, mad i couldn't keep up.  questioning myself on why i was bear crawling across a football field at all. irrational woman.

**this takes place at the south y, outside tuesdays and thursdays. in the near future we will go to three days a week. there are bleachers for spectators…lol.

i figured out the first day that 300 yards of 25 yard non-stop repeat sprints will make me feel worse than a 10 mile run at noon on july 4 with 100+ degree temperatures and 40% humidity.

i also found out that when marquis stands on the 70 yard line for the last sprint of the day and says you have 12 seconds to get here, i can get there.

i have added to my list of “things i’ve never done before”. i have now ran sprints pulling 180 pounds of muscle behind me using resistance bands. football agility drills. sweated so much indoors at the y that i left puddles of sweat on the mat when i got up. actual puddles. ewwww.  and bear crawls.  as an adult.

july 4th got my 10 miles in, hot hot hot, and saturday morning ran some of my long run sheila, always a good time.