The: And then some....

In my pink bubble world, also know as Mary Kay, they refer to the "and then some" allot. There are people that do just the minimum and then there are people who do the and then some. Can you get results by doing the bare min? Of course, you can get good results by doing the minimum required. Can you get even better and faster results if you did just a little bit more than the bare minimum? Yep!  And then you have people like me who push off doing even the bare minimum. *sigh* I am trying to rectify this by doing my training runs but now so late in the game trying to do such large distances is probably why I am having so many issues with injuries.  My 3 miles this weekend and my 30 mins today were both walked.

This weekend's long run is suppose to be 11 miles. The furthest I've gone is 8 miles and 11 is in the double digits! Just thinking about it makes my throat get tight.  I feel so far behind in my training, During my 30 min walk today, I tried to run and I feel like I've lost the ability to run. My muscles just seem to give up  almost immediately, or I am in pain. Until just two weeks ago, I wasn't doing my 30 min runs during the week. I was killing myself during my long runs because I wasn't prepared. Then spent the next week trying to recuperate. Then I would do the 3 miles the next weekend and aggravate what I had injured in the last long run and spend the next week resting to make sure the pain was gone for my next long run. I feel like I need to go back to the beginning.

There are 8 weeks until our half in Disneyland and we are almost to a tapering on our long runs. I don't feel like it would be a good idea for me to taper. I am not ready to taper because I haven't done enough work yet. I have decided to tweak my training.  I found another highly recommended training program and it doesn't tapper. It only has you running up to 10 miles instead of 12 miles. But they say that the excitement of the day will carry you the last 3.1 miles so it isn't necessary to go further than 10 miles, interesting concept. I bounced the idea of switching up training off my hubby. We discussed how the longer week day runs will take me longer but we both feel it is important to helping me be better prepared. I tweaked it a bit and here is my training schedule for the next 8 weeks.

And to make sure I am getting back to the basics for my longer week day runs I will be doing the C25K work outs. C25K only takes about a half hour and a 4 mile run should take me a little over an hour right now. My goal is to basically do the C25K work out for that week and day 2 times. If I have to walk, I will walk but this will get me back to basics. Looking at this schedule I don't feel scared like I do with my present one that feels to be coming to an end. With only an 11 mile and two 12 mile long runs left, and I don't feel ready for them.  This will get more miles under my belt and help me feel better prepared. BFF is running her first half marathon this weekend and she is ready for the Tinkerbell half now. Since she is jumping the half marathon gun I am not sure what her plans for training are after this weekend. She said she is going to be looking for another half to do before then. So we are both changing it up a little bit but I think it is defiantly for the better. :-)