Week 15 (October 20 - October 26): Prelude to a Marathon

Omg!!! Lol I was so excited - I won't lie- to take a (this) week off  from running to rest my Achilles until.....it was pointed out that the marathon was in 2 weeks!!!! I thought that I had 3 hahaha .. Go figure.

So now the nerves have set in and it was a lot harder to sit around/'rest' and NOT run than I originally anticipated:

1.  Not super exciting to watch your teammates run their best timed mile of the season at the Clovis West track on Tuesday while you have to postpone yours indefinitely.  

- Positives: Pasta night at Coach John's and feeling motivated after being surrounded by literally over a hundred marathon race medals and inspiration race posters like one of Prefontaine:)

(There's a 100 marathon plaque too!!!)

2.  After sitting out my usual Tuesday and Thursday runs, I actually felt stif-FER if that's possible.  I had also been compensating for my rt. ankle/Achilles by shifting my weight to my left hip/leg/foot when walking and now my Left side was getting sore ... Wth?!

- Positives: heehee Yay lots of pity candy and people opening doors for me at work:D. And flowers!!! (J/k flowers just happened to come this week coincidentally:)

3.  The nerves... Will I be healed enough to run the marathon? Will not finishing the  last 2 weeks of training affect my ability to finish the race?

- Positives: Did more stretching and core strengthening exercises on my own initiative than I ever did in the season just to cute my restlessness.  Had the time to get a sports massage (45 min on my legs and 15min rest of body) in the place of my Saturday run from Delilah at Muses salon which totally de-stiffed me yay:) Actually I slept in first for the 1st Saturday in fifteen weeks and it was glorious!!! 

Plan for Week 16 

-Continue resting my injury but keeping mobile and reverting my walk back to 'normal' so I don't end up injury my left side.

-Get lots of sleep and lots of pre-race hydration.

-Hang up my Attendance Award!!!

 -  Most importantly plan out my race day outfit to ensure maximal cuteness!