Happiest Monday to you!
Slowing but surely my mood is lifting and the depression is lessening. Despite having a grey, rainy weekend I felt content instead of miserable and sleepy, which can happen when I’m struggling with my depression. I am hopeful.
Week past:
I didn’t really talk about it last week but I obviously have cut my distance down. I had originally had drawn out a very slow climb from the half to full marathon distance and was happy with that until I was forced to take a few weeks off. I’m still doing (what I think is) a slow build to the full distance and I’m working up from 18K.
18K was a perfect distance to get myself back into running longer distances, and although it sucks to bring myself back down, it’s exactly what I need.
I wasn’t about to do 18K on a treadmill so I went on one of the wettest runs I have ever done. Not only were my clothes soaked but there were stretches of sidewalk where puddles were completely unavoidable. I ran with wet, heavy shoes for over two hours and gained three blisters. I almost never blister so you can bet I was whining like a baby.
My IT band was extremely sore so I massaged it out and iced it last night. It feels so much better but I’m going to fit in some easy yoga tonight just to be safe.
Week ahead:
Here is my tentative plan for the week. Wednesday is Canada Day and my boyfriend and I have tickets for the Jays game so I’m going to try my hardest to fit a workout in before we have to make our way into Toronto. No promises.
Morning
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Evening
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Monday
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Rest
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Yoga
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Tuesday
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Legs
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Rest
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Wednesday
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Easy run, arms & abs
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Rest
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Thursday
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Speed training
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Volleyball
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Friday
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Full body
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Rest
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Saturday
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Yoga
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Walk
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Sunday
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LSR (20K)
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Yoga
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Full disclosure: I’m also planning on devouring the biggest ballpark hot dog I can find.
Do you like to workout on holidays or are they automatic rest days?
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