Happy Sunday! Week #3 of marathon training is officially done 🙂 This was a hard week for me and it didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped, but I did get in 3 out of 4 of my runs (including my long run) and I did strength training twice. I’m really working on trying to NOT freak out if I can’t follow my training plan 100% (more on this in a future post).
Monday
4 Mile Easy Run. I tried out the New Balance VaZee Pace sneakers. I didn’t love them, but I didn’t hate them either so I am going to give them another chance next week.
Tuesday
5 Mile Easy Run. The first 3 miles were great and then it pretty much all went to hell. My IT band injury flared up bad, like really bad. At one point I was limping while running so I just stopped and stretched 🙁
Wednesday
60 Minute Body Works Class. The boot camp class instructor was out of town so I took a body works class instead. It’s a great full body workout that uses free weights and body weight exercises.
Thursday
4 Mile Easy Run. This didn’t happen because I was still trying to rest my IT band, so this ended up being a rest day and I was not happy about that.
Friday
Rest Day. Decided to run a mile to see how my IT band felt after 2 days off from running. I took it slow and it felt okay.
Saturday
11 Mile Long Run. I slowed down my pace and try to take the run one mile at a time. I stopped and walked when necessary. The humidity made this run pretty difficult but thankfully I had cloud cover for the first 6 miles.
Sunday
60 minute HIIT Class. I love this class because I always get a good sweat and I feel like it’s a great strength training class.
Total Miles – 21 Miles
Grade – B
I gave myself a B because I missed a run. I really hate that I have already deviated off of the schedule, but I know that I needed to rest my injury. I’ve been icing it every day and doing my PT exercises daily to hopefully that will help (fingers crossed).
Also check out this video from my running coach about training for the race you are running. For example, the NYC course has hills so you probably want to incorporate that into your training!
If you have any training tips, please let me know in the comments – I welcome any advice!
Also, I’m linking up with Holly and Tricia for their Weekly Wrap
Helly on the Run says
Good job getting your long run in! I totally agree that it’s smart to train for your race. I’m incorporating hills into my training as well (since I’m doing NYC too! 🙂 )
kookyrunner says
So awesome that you are doing NYC as well – Hope to see you!
Zenaida Arroyo says
Don’t fret too much about a missed run. Many times that is what we need to give our body a break.
kookyrunner says
Thanks 🙂 I’m trying to keep it all in perspective!
Elaine @myRUNexperiment says
Listening to your body is a quick way to recovery so you did the right thing by taking a break. Hopefully the IT band issue is nothing serious and you can resume your training this week. Best of luck at NYC – I had the opportunity to run it in 2014 and it was an exhilarating experience. Yes you’re right about training for a hilly course so your body expects it on race day.
kookyrunner says
Thanks so much for your kind words and advice! 🙂
Sherry says
Sorry to hear about your IT band issue! Hope it’s resolved. Nice job cross training too!
kookyrunner says
Thanks so much Sherry!
Abby @ BackAtSquareZero says
I give you an A, because in your case missing that one run was way better for your IT band than pushing through. If you had not have rested the rest of the week, and probably the following week, would have been ugly.
kookyrunner says
That’s true. Thanks for putting it into perspective 🙂
Sharon says
Sorry to hear about your IT band. Don’t worry about missing a workout. It’s better to listen to your body. Great job this week even with your missed run!
kookyrunner says
Thanks so much for the kind words! I’m starting to feel better about missing the workout.
HoHo Runs says
Welcome to the Weekly Wrap, Kim! How exciting to be training for the NYC marathon (bucket list item). Pushing through a run with a painful IT band is not a good idea (been there, done that), so I think you were very wise to rest — deal with it now versus later. I’m sure you probably already know since it sounds like you’ve had IT problems before but I’ve always been told to strengthen my hips to fix the IT. I’ll be very interested in following your training. Hope to see you next week.
kookyrunner says
Thanks so much! Happy to join and hope to link up each week 🙂
I’ve been doing daily PT exercises to strengthen my hips and glutes so I hope that it pays off! Thanks so much for the recommendation and kind words!
Tricia Vaughn says
I’m so glad you joined in Kimberly in the Weekly Wrap! I’m excited to see how this training goes for you in NYC! You’ve got this, and I sure hope your IT Band will quiet down. Sounds like your doing all the right things to help with that. I would not worry to much about missing your run, things happen and it’s sometimes a way for us to slow down when we normally wouldn’t. Thanks again for linking up!
kookyrunner says
Thanks so much Tricia! I’m looking forward to joining the link-up more often! 🙂