Tuesday, 2/26/2018

Yesterday, as far as training goes, was pretty uneventful. I woke up early for 6 recovery miles. I didn’t want to get out of the bed, but the weather forecast called for rain and wind in the afternoon.

For dinner, I tried a new recipe. Deborah Brooks, a fellow Skirt Sports ambassador, posts meatless recipes on Mondays. The one I tried was called Spaghetti Squash Mac and Cheese. I've had a spaghetti squash in the frig for a while, and I wanted to use it before it spoiled. Everyone loved it. I found a new, easy way to cook spaghetti squash.

Today is a speed day. I should have gotten up this morning, but last night I knew I wouldn't. I'm tired of my hands freezing. It will be windy this afternoon, so that will impact my paces, but I'll let you know.

Breakfast

Since I didn't run before work, I made everyone a juice this morning. I don't use a recipe. I put vegetable scraps along with 1/2 apple, 1/2 cucumber and either lime or lemon. Cilantro makes everything taste better, but I don't have cilantro right now. We've been getting a lot of carrots in our vegetable box, so carrots have been the star lately. The juices never taste the same. Some are horrendous and some are pretty good. The bar is pretty low as far as taste. This morning's juice was pretty good, comparatively.

Friday, 12/22/2017

For breakfast, I had a green concoction.   I can go for months juicing everyday, but I can also fall off the wagon and juice infrequently.  When Costco stopped selling the greens I like, I stopped juicing as much.  I hope to juice more during the upcoming marathon training.

Yesterday, I did a whole bunch of nothing.  I have to get running to get ahead of my pace bunny, so I ran 11 today.  It didn't feel great.  My legs didn't feel recovered, and I have a terrible cough.  I figured out that the cough is asthma.  When I get sick, sometimes I have a lingering bout of asthma.  I have an inhaler, but it has expired.  I took it before my run, and it still worked very well.  The prescribing doctor is from one of those med stop like places, so I doubt if I can get a refill, but I called it in anyway.  My pharmacy will contact the doctor.

I tried my ab and hip exercises in the evening.  The hip ones were fine, but the ab exercises were too painful to complete.  I basically gave up about halfway through.  My abs did not hurt when I ran, though.