Half Marathon Training Program Week 5

I totally failed to follow my training plan this week, or to follow any training plan at all.  Normally my plan s subject to some shenanigans, and that's fine, I flip running days with strength days, do my long runs on Saturday instead of Sunday or skip a day because of soreness.  Whatever.  It all sort of evens out in the end.  I think it's important not to sweat the details so long as you're making the progress you want to make and you aren't hurting yourself.

But this week circumstances conspired against me.  I ran at lunch on Monday, but then got a migraine and went home from work early to enjoy the benefits of Zomig and napping.  Tuesday I didn't really feel up for a run because I was still shaking off the after effects of my migraine.  Remind me to post sometime about how incredibly bizarro my migraines have gotten.  Wednesday there was a horrible ridiculous traffic jam on the freeway coming back from work such that I didn't get home until almost 8 and running was not going to happen. Thursday my running buddy had a last minute work thing and had to bail on me, and rather than run alone I succumbed to peer pressure and ate massive amounts of Indian food.  So.... I didn't run again until yesterday!

Four days!

Something really crazy has happened to me where if I go more than three days or so without running I become this crazed, twitchy, tweaked out person who can't sit still or focus.  My husband was trying to calm me down and keep me from flipping out on Thursday night, but I couldn't even sit still for a back rub.  A BACK RUB.  That's like not being able to sit still for chocolate.  Sheesh.  Then I ran again on Friday and Ta-Da!  All better.

Anyway, As you can see from my new widget, I didn't quite log the twenty miles this week that I predicted last week, but I feel pretty good and the runs that I did do went well.  My running buddy is consistently pushing me to go faster on our short runs, which is totally awesome, and I'm really starting to feel confident that I can run this half much faster than last time.  We'll be doing 10 mile long runs next week or the week after, at which point I think we'll hold the mileage steady and work on increasing our pace for a while.