Archive for May 20th, 2008

What a great run, 5 pain-free miles in the rain. I was over the moon for feeling like my old self (if my old self wore an ankle brace). I’m not afraid of my body parts anymore!

This has been the worst thing about getting injured, I had a vision that I was a toy repaired with Crazy Glue. Like you never know when it’ll break again (jeez, can you imagine if I had a sfx?). Anway, I can’t wait to get my mileage back, though I’ll stay on the conservative side this week.

Yesterday I entered the Pfitzinger 18/55 plan into my Excel running calendar which was both titillating and exciting. I had planned to start with the 18/70 and subtract the extra runs on double days, but it looks like padding the 18/55 will work out better.

I prefer the 70′s long run schedule (5 going up to 22 instead of 3 topping out at 20) so that’s one place for modification. The other is to add some easy miles to the first few weeks since the plan starts with 4 days/week and I run more than that. It’s nice to have the wiggle room, though.

One very interesting and weird realization is that this training plan is easier than what I’ve been doing these past couple months! There’s only one hard workout a week and even that’s not as aggressive as the weekly speedwork & tempos I’d been doing, so…cool! I’m really looking forward to starting this shindig.

On an unrelated note, I saw a wonderful, sweet, hilarious, totally warped movie the other day that I had to mention to you kids: Lars and the Real Girl. Check out the trailer. It’s on OnDemand if you have that bit of cable extravagance. What a gem.