I’m participating in Paul Lacoste’s summer training. In the past month, I have mainly run to stay fit — well, except for last week. I had flu/bronchitis/cold or something that grew snot in my lungs. I was achy and miserable for a week. And I haven’t run since the 21st of April (when I ran 13.14 miles while feeling miserable.) This morning, I got my butt out of bed and I ran four miles.
Oy.
My lungs felt like they were filled with snot-colored concrete. I wheezed, coughed and sputtered. I felt like I hadn’t run in years.
But I did it.
Training starts on the 7th and I have a lot of work to do to get back into good enough shape to survive it. And then I’m back to training to become one of life’s warriors again.
I always loved to overhear an athlete talking about working out to get in shape to START training. It means their head is in the right place to get good results during the season.
Looks like you’re gonna have a good training summer – prepare for the heat, tho.
I’ll be training at 5 a.m., so the training will be dealing with humidity more than anything else. But I’ve discovered that if I go into a training session in shape, I can enjoy the training more. I learned that in my football days. A couple of years, I came into August out of shape. No mas.
Are you at 5:00 or 6:00?. Signed up at 5:00 hope you are in that group.
Five. Because I am insane.