Change

Oh hey...you probably thought I forgot about you, didn't you? Well, I haven't. I am infact still around and still training. I have been biking for the last few weeks and I have been feeling pretty good, but biking is just not the same as running. I haven't run (ran?) in over 4 weeks (31 days to be exact). Well, I ran yesterday and it was rough.

I was supposed to run today, but yesterday I was working on some photography stuff for school and I wanted to photograph myself running. So I got my stuff on and went out. I ran about a mile back and forth on this old dirt road and it felt great. After a short warm up my knee felt fine and it was really, really great to run again. Then I decided that I wanted to get some pictures of me running stairs (bad idea). So I went to the football stadium on campus and ran up and down the stairs 3 times. 

Yeah...I did this three times. On the third round my legs were getting pretty tired and I was breathing pretty hard, but all in all I felt good. Then I woke up this morning... not good. I was supposed to run 5 miles this morning, that did not happen. So as I sat on the couch this morning with my achy legs, I was thinking about this marathon that is going to take place in 12 weeks, the one that I have been training for. After a lot of thought, I decided that I am going to run the half marathon in Salt Lake City in April and run the full marathon in Rexburg in June. I just don't think that I will be up to full marathon fitness level in 12 weeks, especially after taking a month off in the middle of training. So, in 12 weeks I should be able to run the half marathon, and then another 7 or 8 weeks after that be ready to run the full 26.2 here in Rexburg. Anyway...so I will share my new training plan and stuff in the coming days, but that is the change in my new running plan.

Keep Calm and MarathOn