I am still fighting the good fight, trying not to succumb to the ever popular American lifestyle. That one which the way too many are overworked throughout the day and come home to eating comfort food and laying on the couch only wishing they had the energy to get out there and do it.
All that said, last week's training was pretty much thwarted by my 53 hours of work (not counting drive time). Saturday night, I barely made it to A-train's house a little after 10pm, without falling asleep at the wheel, to pass out and get back up at 5:15 am and do it all over again. Each day at work was more and more stressful for me. Lots of complications (neutropenic fever, nausea/vomiting, constipation, high methotrexate levels, bone mets with compression fractures and my all time favorite c-diff) made the thought of the day "F me!!" I couldn't hang blood, potassium, set-up PCA pumps and provide emotional support for extremely anxious family members who wanted to vent on me fast enough. I kept thinking "who is gonna die?" and that's who I would go see and that meant sometimes 1 of my 5 patient's didn't see me for a few hours.
Anyway, here is the rundown for the last two weeks.
Week of 8/8-8/14
Mon: off
Tues: off
Wed: off
Thur: 11.11 ran (3.0 in afternoonat 10:00/mile, 2.96 warm-up and 5.15 race)
Fri: 4.5 ran easy (9:25/mile)
Sat: 9.55 trails at S. Chagrin (10:03/mile)
Sun: 10.5 long run (8:40/mile - ran around at Perfect 10 miler)
Total: 35.67 miles
Week of 8/15-8/21
Mon: off
Tues: off
Wed: off
Thur: 6.5 speedwork (2 mile warm-up, 2 x 1 mile at 7:38 and 1 x 1 mile at 7:35 with 800 meter RI at 10:00/mile)
Fri: 10.15 trails at N. Chagrin (9:09/mile)
Sat: off
Sun: off
Total: 16.65
1 comment:
I can imagine that must be hard with a changing schedule! I am sure you will figure out a way to make it all work! At least you are still getting in some mileage! Would love to get out running with you soon once this whole 140.6 thing is done in just over 2 weeks!
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