Exhausted!

This really has been a week from hell on the work side. We are all pushing and pushing for a important meeting next week, but it seems never ending. I almost pulled an all nighter last night, but by 2am I was toast. When my alarm went off at 6am I almost cried and then hit snooze for an hour. Meetings with VPs are just so stressful – especially when the project isn’t going well. Luckily I was able to get everything I needed for today done so I am indulging myself with a quick blogger break. I am also thinking of heading to main offices support group tonight so I can meet up with Grace – if I am awake by then :( 

Luckily today is an exercise free day - a mandatory exercise free day! I am sure I won’t hit my calorie burn, but at this point I DON’T CARE!! Why is this a exercise free day, you ask? (Or at least I assume you are asking.) Because tomorrow starts week 2 of the half marathon training and group run day. Tomorrow we are doing 4 miles and they require 1 day of no exercise before each long run. It is supposed to reduce the risk of injury and help your muscles “learn” better tomorrow. Sounds reasonable to me so I am going to stick to it, but honestly I find it kind of hard to be told I can’t exercise. What a complete 180 from where I was 6 months ago!

In case you were wondering my training plan is below. The only days that are mandatory are the 20+minute run on Mon, the easy walk on Tuesday, the rest on Wednesday, the long run on Thursday, and the 20+ minute run on Sat. Below is a copy of my training schedule.

(click to "biggerize" :)

The strength and cross training days were added by me based on options allowed in the overall plan, but those days can be rest days depending on what your goals/needs are. They do stress that more is not always better – in fact many times it leads to people failing the program due to injury or being burned out. For me, I think this will work well, but I am am very very worried about keeping up with the group runs.

However, I just found out that there are four team leaders for our group (of 20 or so). I am crossing my fingers that that means our group will split into smaller groups based on additional needs. If not, I KNOW I did everything they said I needed to do before training to be successful so I guess I will just do what I can and let them figure out what to do with me. The main leader said I could do it, so I will let her put her skills where her mouth is :)

Ok. I got to run back to work so I can take a couple hours out tonight so talk to you guys later!!!!