#galloway training

[rachelfatpants]

I am absolutely wiped after work today. I was invited to do a few different things tonight, but I decided to stay home instead. I did make myself go for a run, so week 3 day 1 of Jeff Galloway it is! Still feeling good, but the anxiety is still very much there about my half next week. I’m going to keep obsessing about it until it’s done, so I apologize now for all my talk about it. Part of me wants to skip it, but most of me wants to try. I’m just scared it’s going to be terrible and I’ll either quit or want to quit the entire time. Ugh. I’m just ready for it to be over. Oh well. This is my weekend of fun! It’ll be nice to get my mind off the half for a couple days. I might be able to get a run in on Sunday before work, probably not tomorrow, though maybe tomorrow night. It wouldn’t hurt to take a rest day. And then Monday I don’t know if I’ll be able to get a real run in, but I’m planning on going to a show at the theater I used to work with a lot and it’s outdoor and involves a quarter mile trek down a big steep hill. Then there’s a million stairs / seats, so it’s a workout just being out there. I still could probably get a run in monday night. Then Tuesday we just have our work meeting so I can definitely do something before that. Lots of last minute training in my future! 

Side note: I don’t know why my selfies have been looking so awkward lately. I swear my post run selfies used to be cuter, but who knows. 

[rachelfatpants]

Day one of the Galloway half marathon training app. A very easy day to start off. I’m doing the “train for my first half” route even though I have done halves before. This is the first time following a real training plan. I’ve wanted to try the Galloway method for a long time but never really knew where or how to start, so this app is pretty sweet. It’s the Lolo one if you want to go looking for it. 

Today is my day off and I’m feeling a bit bored and lonely. I feel better after my run, so that’s good. Now I’m snuggling in for a movie night, I’m watching Winchester. I had a free rental from redbox, so I had to use it! I hope everyone is having a good day and here’s to day one of the May Fitness Challenge! 

[rachelfatpants]

W1D2 of training. I think the gps in this app has me going a LITTLE faster than my watch shows, but oh well. So the app has like 20 weeks to being trained for a half. I have my half next month... whoops! I just know I won’t be quite up to my full trained self for my half, but as long as I cross that finish line, I’ll be ok. Time to just work as hard as I can until then and hope and pray my body will let me get through it with a ton of walking. I’ve done it before quite a few times, I can do it again! .... right?

Tonight I’m cramp city, so that sucks. Hoping they’ll be a little better tomorrow, but probably not. 

[rachelfatpants]

I had a good run tonight! I did Week 2 day 4 of the Jeff Galloway training, so 4 miles. When I was done I was still feeling good so I walked another mile. I haven’t been keeping up with the Galloway training since I’m don’t really have the time... whoops. But once I’m done with my half in a week and a half I’m going to be doing the Galloway training more religiously. For now I’m just trying to convince myself that I won't die during the half. Tonight I felt good! Especially good after a full work day! I just have to do about 2 and a half times what I did today in a little over a week! Yikes! I’ll be happy when this half is over and I can train properly. And yes, I did have a ton of time to train properly for THIS half. But ya know... I am me. 

Hope everyone is having a good week! 

[rachelfatpants]

Today’s run was crummy. My heel has been hurting and today was no exception. I dunno, I just wasn’t feeling it either. So I cut it short and walked a little bit more, but meh. I shouldn’t put so much pressure on myself to be fast. Also, there was a track meet or something on the track, so I had to go around the trail and that’s harder with the galloway training. I’ll try again tomorrow or Friday or something. 

I’m already having a ton of anxiety about tomorrow’s happy hour. It’s going to be rough. I wasn’t even scheduled to work it, but I traded shifts with someone without thinking about happy hour! Ugggggh. I hate that pre-work anxiety for shifts like this and I don’t know what to do about it. It’s not fair and I shouldn’t be worrying about work like this! 

In other news, tonight I went and saw Puffs! The show itself was fantastic! Loved it! The theater experience however.... not so much. They were having issues starting it and then they cut out the sound during the credits when there was still stuff happening. Fortunately I was able to get my money back because those tickets weren’t cheap. I feel bad complaining and such, but my friend convinced me to and we were dressed up, so they knew what we wanted, haha. There was another couple getting their money back right in front of us, so the guy was basically like, puffs? Yep. I wish I could see it again on Saturday, but I work. One day I’ll see those alternative scenes in the credits! 

[rachelfatpants]

So I thought it was going to pour cause the sky was super dark grey, buuuut it didn’t. I went to the gym and decided to try out the jeff galloway training on the treadmill. Whoah man! That’s hard. He wants me to go 5.5 mph for the running bits! That’s fast for me! I think I normally walk faster than the 3.0 he wants for the walking bits. So somehow even though that busted my butt and I had to change my intervals a couple times to see what worked best with the treadmill, but it shows my average being slower than when I run outside. I wonder if that’s because the gps isn’t that accurate or if I make up for running slower by walking faster. We’ll have to see when I run outside next. I don’t know how I feel about continuing with Galloway on the treadmill, it’s such a pain. But we’ll see. 

I went and exchanged my shoes today as well, I got a half size smaller and I think they fit better. The people at the store said that 11 SHOULD fit and my toe might hit in the 10.5 when running, but I felt like my foot was sliding forward in the 11s and my toe was hitting then anyway. So hopefully the 10.5s work, they felt pretty good on my run today! Much better than the 11s did at my 5k. 

[dosomething4urself]

First Group Run

My first run with the Galloway training group was a success. There were about 20 runners that showed up and we split into three pacing groups to do an easy three miles. It was amazing how quickly three miles is knocked out when you are talking/listening to others as you go. I was actually sad when I realized that the run was almost over. I had a lot of anxiety leading up to this morning. However, it was for nothing. Everyone was super nice and supportive. I definitely am ready for next Saturday to hurry up and get here.