Waiting and running
I'm waiting for my boss to come by for a status update, where I get to tell her that we are pretty much in the same boat as we were last week. Lovely. I'm not really looking forward to that. Hopefully this week will be more productive than the last.
I'm getting deeper into my training, and so far its been good. I started to have a weird ankle pain last week, so its been on ice and anti-inflammatory meds when possible. After doing some reading I believe it is due to excessive pronation with my barefoot running. Up until now it hasn't been an issue, but just due to the way my foot lands it rolls more outside in than normal. I did my 11 mile run the other day in shoes, still keeping with the midfoot strike and I came back with 0 ankle pain. So I am now looking into a midfoot striking shoe that will help with my pronation and not want to force me into the heel strike that a regular one does. Thankfully, there is a shoe that does that *wags*. I've got a pair of newtons on order and they should be coming in around thursday of this week.
I was very happy with the split time for my 11 miles, 8:02. My target for the whole 26 is 8:00, so I'm not too far off. My body seems to have adapted to the new fueling system, as I don't seem to feel as lethargic on my long runs anymore.
We finished up our 6 week strength training focus session at the crossfit box. I ended up posting up these numbers. #125 press, #255 Back squat, #275 deadlift. I'm pretty happy with the results I've seen so far, now onward and upward!
The other highlight of the weekend was going to see Scott P vs the World with the wuff. Goddamn that was good. I would see that again in a heartbeat *nudges xanie*. Keeping with the movie topic we also saw the rifftrax of reefer madness, which was just fucking hilarious. The shorts they did were awesome, and the movie was even better. If you haven't seen any of the rifftrax, I suggest you check it out. Otherwise my time was spent playing dominion, cleaning and spending time outside in the hot august sun. All in all, it was a good weekend, much relaxing to be had while still keeping productive.
*wags*
I'm getting deeper into my training, and so far its been good. I started to have a weird ankle pain last week, so its been on ice and anti-inflammatory meds when possible. After doing some reading I believe it is due to excessive pronation with my barefoot running. Up until now it hasn't been an issue, but just due to the way my foot lands it rolls more outside in than normal. I did my 11 mile run the other day in shoes, still keeping with the midfoot strike and I came back with 0 ankle pain. So I am now looking into a midfoot striking shoe that will help with my pronation and not want to force me into the heel strike that a regular one does. Thankfully, there is a shoe that does that *wags*. I've got a pair of newtons on order and they should be coming in around thursday of this week.
I was very happy with the split time for my 11 miles, 8:02. My target for the whole 26 is 8:00, so I'm not too far off. My body seems to have adapted to the new fueling system, as I don't seem to feel as lethargic on my long runs anymore.
We finished up our 6 week strength training focus session at the crossfit box. I ended up posting up these numbers. #125 press, #255 Back squat, #275 deadlift. I'm pretty happy with the results I've seen so far, now onward and upward!
The other highlight of the weekend was going to see Scott P vs the World with the wuff. Goddamn that was good. I would see that again in a heartbeat *nudges xanie*. Keeping with the movie topic we also saw the rifftrax of reefer madness, which was just fucking hilarious. The shorts they did were awesome, and the movie was even better. If you haven't seen any of the rifftrax, I suggest you check it out. Otherwise my time was spent playing dominion, cleaning and spending time outside in the hot august sun. All in all, it was a good weekend, much relaxing to be had while still keeping productive.
*wags*