Whew, what a weekend!

I'm starting to remember how it became so that I had to stop the marathon training this time last year. Spring semester is quite busy, and I'm only doing about half as much as last spring! But I'm determined to finish the marathon this time, even if it does mean always staying busy and perhaps having to tweek my schedule here and there.

This past week was very well thought out in terms of when I knew I would have time and how I should plan my workouts accordingly. Still, I missed the weekly mileage goal by 4, but I'd say I had a pretty good excuse!

I happened to not be working on Thursday, so I did my 13mi long run that morning. Not the best long run I've had, but I wouldn't say it was horrible. My legs were definitely feeling it towards the end, but they weren't sore all day which is probably a good sign. I've heard the C-ville Marathon offers gummi bears at the fuel stops, so I did an experiment with gummi bears on this long run - it was probably good thing to find out NOW that the gummies don't sit too well with me, haha! No gummies on race day! :)

I had a great tempo run in Scottsville on Saturday after my EMT-Enhanced state test (which I PASSED by the way!!!). I would have made it a little longer, but daylight cut me short, so I knew I had to do 4mi the next day to complete out my week - no problem.

Well, the next day, Sunday, I went hiking up in the Shenandoah National Park. I figured we'd get back to Scottsville mid-afternoon and I'd have plenty of time for my easy 4. Yes, we got back early afternoon with plenty of daylight, but anyone in VA can tell you Sunday was absolutely surreal! High winds caused powerlines all over the place to go down and the downed lines caused huge brush fires which were fueled and expanded by the winds. As soon as I got back to Scottsville, I was out with the fire dept fighting various brush fires and didn't get back to Farmville until almost midnight. So much for my easy 4! Well, in addition to hiking that morning I'd just trampsed all over the southern-Albemarle countryside helping contain brush fires, so I definitely got lots of miles in...just a little bit slower than planned ;)

14 long/28 total on the schedule for next week. I know I'm going to be pretty busy again, so I may have to do some wigglin!