Still not feeling great today, kinda achy and headachy. But DH is home and doing good, and DD slept in her own bed! She woke up once for about an hour, then slept til 9! It was great, I got to totally relax and just lay there dozing!
It was cold, windy and rainy today, and I did not end up doing anything workout wise. So I have taken 2 rest days in a row, but I think it will help me in my LR tomorrow, which if possible I am going to do 5 miles, because I got my new plan!
I will officially be starting it on Mon Apr 2, and it is pretty intense. It has me doing toning on Mon, rest on Tue, running on Wed, Thu, and Fri, with the workouts being shorter run, longer run, shorter run, rest on Sat and LR on Sun. The LR's start at 6 miles and go on from there working up to 20 miles by week 15. Then 3 easy weeks, until I get the 2nd portion of the training plan, which is going to be more XT and I think more toning, backing off on the running until closer to the marathon. So, I will be doing 20 miles sometime in late June! Kind of freaks me out, but she has made it clear that I am supposed to listen to my body and take it as slow as I need to, trying to stick with the plan as much as possible. And I know she would never give me anything that I could not do. She totally changed up the plan from what she had originally been working on for me, because of my weight not moving, and because I think she finally realized how much confidence I am currently lacking in my ability to do this. She thinks this will help me with discipline, and greatly increasing my confidence, because I will have worked up to 20+ miles twice before the marathon actually gets here. My sister thinks I'm crazy, but I think if I follow this plan, I will be able to enjoy completing the marathon, not just endure it the way she (my sister) did with her first marathon, and go on to enjoy a great vacation, without being in complete agony for the first few days after the race. I am nervous and excited about trying this new plan, and I am tempted to kinda "unofficially" start the plan this week, by trying to run 3 days in a row, just to see how I feel doing it.
Laurie- Glad your back! We are all doing pretty good, DD is much better, DH is doing good, even my mom is making improvements. She was able to get into the nuerologist last week, and really liked him, and he has some good ideas on what to do to get her feeling better. I am pretty much freaked out by my trainers plan, but I just keep reminding myself to take it one week at a time, since the first week only has me doing 3 mile runs W/Th/F, with a 6 mile LR, which is not scary. So I guess I'll just see how it goes and worry about week 2 when it gets here. If I could just get the weight off, I think I would feel much better, but I just keep fluctuating up and down the same 1.5 lbs!
Yesterday, my eating was good all day, then I got to hungry and got pizza for DD and I. Went way overboard. But I felt bad about it and figured out my calories and did an extra 53 mins on the tm, walking hills. I also did my normal toning, and 25 mins run/walking during DD's preschool. That was supposed to be my workout for the day, 30 min run, but I just felt awful. Side pain almost immediately, headache, and my scalp was tingly, not sure what that was about. So I did not run to much and decided to do toning instead and do the run today, which did not happen due to a really bad headache. Have not stayed OP with my diet today, and I haven't done any exercise. I just feel cruddy. But DH is home, so DD will be back in her own bed tonight and hopefully I can get a good night sleep and have a great day tomorrow. I will probably end up just running on the tm, due to thunderstorms and wind forcast, but I think I can do a pretty good workout that way.
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I realized that maybe this is why she gave me this training plan so early! It all of a sudden clicked with something she had said months ago, that at the time I didn't pay any attention to, and some of the things she emailed me just recently. In email recently she said I needed this to learn the discipline, to suck it up and get it done (my words not hers) and a few months ago she said her goal for me was to have me so well trained for this race that no matter how little sleep I had gotten the night before, or how sick, headachy, crampy, I was I would know without I doubt that I could get through the marathon. And now that I have hit this wall, and realize how much it shakes my confidence, I think I have a new understanding of what she is trying to do by starting me out so quickly. I think it is going to be very tough, but I know if I can get through this, I can get through anything, and that definitely makes me feel better (until I start thinking about the runs yet to come! 
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But I did do a good toning workout when we got home.
Those hills make such a difference, don't they? I'm amazed at my ability on a perfectly flat air-conditioned running track. 
