I've discovered what may be the downfall of my training: work. Being a hospitalist my hours are varied, having day, evening, and night shifts. I seem to mostly work evening shifts, and I'm completely fine with this. I am not a morning person. I prefer sleeping in a bit, working in the afternoon, and then going to bed after midnight. True, this schedule does not fit in well with having a 17 month-old and a wife, but I make it work best we can.
As I am finding out, working the evening shifts also works better for my running schedule. Running before work = awesome. Running after work = sucks. I've been on day shifts this week, and after waking up early, sitting in traffic getting to work, running around the ER for 8 hours w/o stopping to eat/drink/urinate, then sitting in traffic on the way home from work, I've found my legs have been less than ready for a good run. I set out for a three mile run on Tuesday and after 2 miles my legs just wouldn't go any further. I wanted to make up for the loss of mileage and so I ran 5 yesterday rather than 4, but my pace was horrendous. 11:30/mile? Really?
I'll have to push through best I can, but this is just the pre-training running. I'm envisioning a long day of work and then having to come home and run 8-10 miles and my heart sinks a bit. I'll probably end up having to wake up extra early and running before work, and the thought of that makes me die a bit inside. I repeat, I am not a morning person.
On a side note, according to my records, I ran 63.9 miles last month! That is 20 more miles than I did in April. I'm on a regimen of 3/4/3/6 until my training officially starts on 6/20 (which technically begins at 3/3/3/6) - so I should hit around 70-75 miles for June.
-Doc
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1 comment:
I don't envy your schedule at all. I like standard hours five days a week. Way to stay after the training-it won't be easy but I think your strategy of runs before work is key. Also, schedule those long runs on off days!
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