Chicago marathon: week nine
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
ARE. WE. THERE. YET?!
We feel like we've been running forever. The crazy thing, we still have eight more weeks to go! We're hanging on by a thread here people. We were feeling good until we started running double digits. Now we're mentally bored and have a permanently sore butt.
At this point, we're seriously questioning whether we can make it. Can you hit the wall this early in training? We honestly feel like we have 4, 362 things we would rather be doing than running at 6am. Annnnnd…. breathe. Thank the high heavens this was a taper week because we needed to cool our jets and focus. Hopefully things will get better!
Chicago Marathon Training Recap: Week Nine
Monday – Rest.
Tuesday – 3 miles. Speedy and simple. It had stormed the night before leaving the morning air crisp and cool. We did fight a little soreness in our feet during our run. Can we just say that the foot log is a life savor? If we couldn’t roll out the scar tissue on the bottom of our feet, we wouldn’t be running right now.
Wednesday – 3 miles in the morning. We're starting to hate our Wednesday morning runs. We didn’t sleep well last night because we had way too much on mind. Clearly kickball is not the only culprit to blame for these painfully slow runs. The only good thing, besides watching the sunrise again, was knowing that we would run with Listy after work. Other than that, we just ran through the motions. 4 miles with Listy in Wash Park. Praise the Lord for good friends. We think we word vomited for 40 minutes straight about all the craziness that’s going on. We'll explain later. No, we're not preggers. We were so thankful to have Listy there to help us sort through a bunch of stuff. Four miles flew by, which is exactly what we needed!
Thursday – Rest.
Friday – 2 miles. Mr. B and we had the day off, and decided to jog around the city! We think running with the hubs and having no set route made this outing so much fun. We need to do this more often.
Saturday – 10 miles. With Listy out of town this weekend, we were a little nervous about running without her. What can we say, she’s a favorite! We decided to run from our apartment to Wash Park and back. Mr. B needed to run 3 miles and met us at mile 3.5. Poor guy, we ran about a quarter mile and then his back started to spasm. Needless to say, he had to head home and we just kept on going. The entire run we felt strong and in control. Phew. The only problem we had was with our stomach the last three miles when nature came calling! Don’t worry, we made it home just in time:)
Sunday – Cross Train. Rest. Our calf’s were sore and tight. We didn’t want to push it and decided that rest was much needed.
Total miles: 23 22
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