Week 3

So, it has been a few days since I've last updated this blog. Not too much has happened. I will admit I had a slight drawback this week. I went out on Monday night (Halloween) and didn't get in until late in the morning. Consequently, I was very tired when I woke up and decided that for me to function that day, I should sleep in. So, I did. In doing this, it threw off my training cycle.

Being that I am determined to keep this training up, I altered my schedule. On Wednesday, I ran my intended 3 miles from Tuesday, on Thursday I ran my intended 4 miles from Wednesday and today, Friday I ran my intended 3 miles from Thursday. If you followed that, good for you! Friday's are supposed to be my off days, but I wanted to make sure that I am keeping up with the proper milage to be run over the course of this training, and I figured that I only have 5 miles to run tomorrow, so I should be in good shape in the morning.

I was planning on running outside all week, but that of course didn't happen, except for today. I was able to wear my pants and I wore two shirts and my under-armor pullover. I felt warm except for my hands, which felt like they were going to break off because they were so cold. Now  I know that I NEED to wear gloves.

The run itself felt pretty good. I finished in a faster time than I do on the treadmill, but that's because I am not very good at keeping a steady pace yet. It wasn't until a little over halfway that I started getting a cramp in my side. I tried to do breathing techniques to try and have it go away. It didn't totally worked, but I think it did something. I use Map My Run on my phone to measure how far I go. Here is the link with my stats:

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/56714986

Tomorrow I am going to try and run again outside. Like I said, it is a 5 mile run, so I should be able to do that with relative ease... We shall see...

Until the next run,
cody!