Overtrained??

Well, the week was going great training wise until the weekend rolled around...

Had several low-medium distance workouts throuhout the week, including a GREAT 5mi Farlek run of 2min easy, 30 sec push. Doesn't sound hard, but do that for several miles and it will catch up to you! I was slightly, yet wonderfully sore that night and the next morning. Haha, that must definitely be a runner thing, to enjoy being slightly sore!

I know that this marathon is something I want soooo bad. But a small part of me wants to be a college student, and especially enjoy this last semester before having to face the real world. Let's just say this weekend was a TON of fun, but fairly worthless in terms of getting stuff done, both schoolwork and otherwise.

I woke up early on Sunday morning with every intention of doing my 14mi long run. Had my bagel with peanut butter breakfast, got dressed and everything. But when I headed out in my car to drop water and Gu, I just couldn't motivate myself to start the run. It was cold and rain was coming, and I just really didn't feel like getting rained on for 14mi. So, I turned ass around and climbed back in bed. I guess I needed the sleep anyway cause I didn't wake up til noon! Yup! Pretty much useless!

I really was worried about how unmotivated I was. I've had several pretty tough weeks here in a row, and it may be catching up with me. In addition, I've started swimming 3x per week and since it's started getting warm again, I'm back out on the bike. Perhaps it was just too much of an increase in everything too quickly (well, and maybe the fun weekend had something to do with it too). Pehaps I needed the break.

The marathon is 9 weeks out. I'm still doing OK training wise, but I really cannot be missing these long runs!! 15 long/30 total for this week - I may run the C-ville 10 miler route when home this weekend, so that should be fun!