Blame It On The Rain.....

Milli Vanilli "said" "blame it on the rain" so that's my plan.... Oh and I'll blame it on the humidity and the 5 1/2 hours of kayaking I did I did the other day!  

I took my 2nd run test and did terribly*!   

*terribly is a relative term ha ha

You win some, you lose some I guess.  I'll meet with my coaches this week and hopefully they will have some words of wisdom to refocus me.  I'm not going to perseverate on this tho....it was one run and while I joke, I am cognizant of factors that may have led to these results.  Learn from it and move on is my plan.  

 Here are my overall stats:

 

Here are my splits :( :

Sure this was a decent run with pretty good splits (aka if I did this in the Philly marathon in November I'd be booking my hotel room in Boston for the marathon ha ha), but my last run test (3 miles) was sub 22 minutes and while it's a "small" difference I was hoping to be quicker.

It's all part of the process....

 

"We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass."

-Hal Higdon

 

 

Then and Now.....

As I continue to grow as a runner through this training program I've noticed the effect the training has had on my body.  When I started training in the week of May 19th I took photos of myself and now, that I'm 8 weeks in, I took photos again to see some of the changes.  I was actually pleasantly surprised.  
I am generally very structured with my eating and drinking, but this past month has been disastrous and I was lazy.  "Junk food only once a week" was tossed out the window and "only having a drink or two on Friday and Saturday nights" has been abolished altogether ha ha I can't help think what these "after" photos would look like if was I was taking the care I usually take....

This 1st photo collage shows a side by side of then and now.  The left side is the week of May 19th and the right side is the week of July 7th.  While the changes aren't THAT drastic there are slightly noticeable changes..mostly in my abs, but a little in my face.  (and my hair grew...ha ha)  I was hoping to see some changes in my arms and back, but there are still 20 weeks of training to go so we'll see!

Here's a collage from the beginning....

And a collage of where I'm at now....

 

This post's quote is straight up Theta Phi Alpha style....“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.” -Catherine of Sienna