Oh, hi there friends.
Remember me?
It’s been almost two months since I’ve blogged. The holidays were nuts (as expected), and on top of that I was sick for a good three weeks.
You’re probably thinking that the title of this post is referring to the lack of blogging.
Wrong.
Remember how I said that a co-worker and I signed up for the NYC Half Marathon?
Well, we got in.
Don’t get me wrong, I am so excited and grateful that we were chosen (participants are chosen by lottery).
The problem is that I was sick for a few weeks and had not been keeping up with my running.
And now I have two months to go from being able to run 4 miles, to being able to run 13.1 miles.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!
While researching the NYC Half, we also found out that around 5 miles of the run is through Central Park, and is extremely hilly.
Double Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!
Needless to say, I will need to stick to a pretty strict training schedule if I’m going to make the 3-hour time limit.
Hopefully they won’t drive by and scoop me up before I’m able to finish.
And if I do get picked up, I pray the vehicle doesn’t look like this:
Creeptastic.
Anyway – here is this week’s schedule:
W – 3 miles
H – 3 miles
F – 3 miles
S – 5 miles
After freaking out about the hills and googling our faces off, we found a treadmill hill workout. I made the following my 3-miler yesterday:
Hills Brooooooo Time Speed Incline 0:00-5:00 5 1 5:00-8:00 6.5 1 8:00-13:00 6 3 13:00-15:00 6.5 1 15:00-18:00 6 4 18:00-20:00 6.5 1 20:00-23:00 6 5 23:00-25:00 6.5 1 25:00-28:00 6 3 28:00-30:00 6.5 1 30:00-33:00 6 5 33:00-38:00 5 1
Yes, that says “Hills Broooooo”.
I could tell by looking at this that it would be incredibly difficult, so I decided going in that I would bump a lot of the speeds down to 5′s and 5.5′s.
(Sidenote: can you “bump” a speed down? Or should I be using a different word there? Ehhh, whatever.)
Even doing this, however, I found myself having to walk a bunch of times.
Holy balls.
PS I find it a little disappointing that I googled “balls” and not one actual pair of male balls came up in the first few pages.
Not that I really wanted to see a pair of balls.
Balls are gross.
I’m just surprised at the lack of perverted people out there.
The husband suggested I photoshop a pair of balls with a halo over them (for my holy balls comment).
It’s a great idea.
I’m lazy.
Visualize it yourself.
OK enough ball talk. Back to hill talk.
I’ve decided to incorporate hill intervals into two of my four runs each week leading up to the half. I really hope this helps!
It better help.
Or I’m screwed.
The title of this photo was “Mario Screwed”. Haaaaa.
Welp, I’m going to go google something else now.
I just came back from my 3 mile run today, and the insides of my feet are killing me.
This was supposed to be my nice easy run, and instead it was torturous, and I ended up walking for a full mile.
It hurt so much I honestly didn’t even want to walk. I just wanted to stop.
I swear one day soon I’ll be able to run without any ailments.
