Pains of Training (It's not ALL fun)

We are now kicking off week two of marathon training. So far Kal, Meesh, and I haven't missed a day of training. Shazaam hurt her IT band so I told her to lay off it for a few days. Then there is the fact that she has the heaviest homework load of any of us, so she may have to start back down on week one at the end of the semester. In the middle of last week I noticed that Meesh posted her running log on the wall in our bedroom. I took a peek at it and couldn't help but laugh out loud. Under the "Where you ran" column she wrote "dumb treadmill," and in the comments box she wrote "I hate treadmills." I have avoided running on those awful machines for a very long time and hopefully won't have to run on one at all for training, but it's getting colder and we got some snow over the weekend. I am trying to think warm thoughts.

Tonight was the first run of week two. I decided it would be nice to run somewhere different, so I looked up a new route on mapmyrun.com. It was almost exactly a three mile run. Since yesterday we all turned our clocks back for daylight savings it was already dark at 5:45pm. I complained to Kal about the lack of lighting on the streets in Rexburg. I couldn't see the ground in front of me. He told me it was more fun running in the dark anyways, but I think my point was proven about poor lighting when I stepped on a rock and twisted my ankel. There was no immediate sign of permanant damage so I kept running. "I'll just run off the pain," I said. It was only a little sore after all. I ran a little less than a mile more on it before getting back to my apartment and I threw some ice on it pretty quick. There are no signs of swelling or bruising so I don't consider it injured to the point of slacking in training. Tomorrow is a rest day anyways.

Despite twisting my ankel, we still ran faster than we did last week. Our time was just under 28 minutes. Meesh dropped two minutes off of her three mile time this morning too! It's incredible that we are already improving.

Working out is not turning out to be the real struggle though. The hardest part is the diet change. It is so hard in college not to eat a ton of junk food with all the birthdays and activities going on. Even if I don't buy it myself it's placed under my nose every day at some point or another. I have done horribly at this new diet the last couple of days. Hopefully I'll be able to control my self a bit better this week. I have a feeling that running on Wednesday won't feel as good as it did today, after what I ate at my friend's birthday party.