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wow. i added some strength training to my exercise routine last week--just some light weight lifting at home. basic upper body stuff, especially back and shoulder strengthening exercises, abdominal work, along with the thigh strengthening exercises i do because i have had ITBS, hamstring tendinitis, and quadriceps tendinitis at various points in my past running life and never want any of them to develop again. the latter two always happen when i'm about 3 or 4 months into a training program after being inactive for awhile--and that's exactly what happened this year. late last summer i developed hamstring tendinitis, and have been rehabbing it (which includes reducing my running mileage--i actually stopped for awhile, and am digging back into it now--along with icing, doing rear leg curls while wearing ankle weights, and lots of stretching).***
anyway, i was just going to say that the addition of these strength training exercises is pooping me out! i did the full set yesterday, and i was TIRED last night. the body is so predictable...
today is a rest day. my legs feel twitchy and ready to go, though! i'll have to take a long walk later to calm them down.
***this is also why i stopped logging my running mileage--both because i didn't have any, for awhile, and because it was too depressing to log a mile here, a mile there. also, i was kicking myself for letting the injury happen; i know i'm prone to it, and i should have been taking precautions to prevent it. i'll probably start logging mileage again pretty soon. i put together a really gentle training plan for myself, one that progresses more gradually than i was trying to do, before. i adapted it from various training plans they have up on the cool running website, including the "couch to 5k" plan (i took the basic principle from that, but adapted it to my needs; the main difference is that i started with their week 5, and i'm doing it 5 days per week instead of only 3). i mapped it out for the entire year, such that--if i follow it, and if it works--i will be ready to run the portland marathon next october. i can't say how fast i'll run it, but i'll finish, anyway. i might try to run a half marathon late next spring, too. i'll have to shop around, see if i can find one. but for now, i am keeping it low and slow.
anyway, i was just going to say that the addition of these strength training exercises is pooping me out! i did the full set yesterday, and i was TIRED last night. the body is so predictable...
today is a rest day. my legs feel twitchy and ready to go, though! i'll have to take a long walk later to calm them down.
***this is also why i stopped logging my running mileage--both because i didn't have any, for awhile, and because it was too depressing to log a mile here, a mile there. also, i was kicking myself for letting the injury happen; i know i'm prone to it, and i should have been taking precautions to prevent it. i'll probably start logging mileage again pretty soon. i put together a really gentle training plan for myself, one that progresses more gradually than i was trying to do, before. i adapted it from various training plans they have up on the cool running website, including the "couch to 5k" plan (i took the basic principle from that, but adapted it to my needs; the main difference is that i started with their week 5, and i'm doing it 5 days per week instead of only 3). i mapped it out for the entire year, such that--if i follow it, and if it works--i will be ready to run the portland marathon next october. i can't say how fast i'll run it, but i'll finish, anyway. i might try to run a half marathon late next spring, too. i'll have to shop around, see if i can find one. but for now, i am keeping it low and slow.
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