Rest week is over.
So lots of fabulous updates. Rest weeks are over. My hip is working nicely again, I’ve started to run again, my knee and butt are doing good and it feels amazing to be back out there. I’m planning to start running in the morning again. We’ll see if that actually happens next week or if it takes longer for me to drag my butt out of bed at a crazy early hour to get that run in before work. I’m disciplined enough to get myself up for Tuesday morning yoga so I guess that I’m going to have to use that early morning alarm a lot more! I will get up early to try a run and adjust the alarm time based on how well the run goes and how long it takes me to actually get up after the alarm goes off the first time.
I’ve managed to hit 4,200km now and I am really planning to hit 5,000km preferably by December 31st of this year! It’ll be a great thing to hit that goal, and I hope that slowly increasing my distance will allow for this.
I also have been adjusting my eating since Easter, and it has worked. The scale and I are back to talking again. The last time I weighed myself I was very high (157lbs) compared to my pre-marathon weight of 147lbs. This time however, I was back down to my usual post-marathon weight of 153lbs which makes me so much happier. I need to drop these extra 5lbs but at least having those extra pounds gone makes me feel so much better about myself.
So hopefully increasing my running from very rarely to 3 or 4 days a week plus yoga will help me drop my remaining bit of weight and make me feel even more like the super awesome mom I am. This week’s goal is to run 3 times, run at least 18km and hit yoga once. I’m going to bring back training Tuesday so I can keep track of how I’m increasing my distance and speed and all that good stuff.
Lillian and Katrina watching our lovebird Shakespeare fly around.