Day 2: First Run, and Focused Lifting sessions

Today's training sessions were to be a foundation run and a weight lifting session focused on legs and core.  I did great and got them both in plus a little extra, the extra was teaching and taking my group class at Varian immediately after my lifting session.

 The run went great as I set my Garmin (Forerunner 305) with pace limiters and beeps to remind me if I was going to fast or slow.  The slow limiter was to keep my warm up at a fast walk, and then the fast limiter was to keep my jog pace no faster than 9 minute mile pace.  As this was my first run it was all about keeping a steady easy pace, to ease my body back into the pounding.  It was also a great time to focus on the information I gleaned from my run evaluation the day prior.  Focus needed to stay on elbows narrow and hands more relaxed, as well as keep from pushing side to side with my take off.  I was able to keep the focus on my arms and it felt like I was keeping my elbows in cause I felt funny almost like my inner arm was velcroed to my sides and my chest was pushed out.  I hope that is what it should feel like. 

Running today took place on Shoreline trail heading out towards to bay lands and then looping back in toward Shoreline road. My hope was that it would take about 40 minutes to do.  Not a bad choice as I spent the first 5 minutes in a fast walk to get to the trail head, then took the last 5 minutes to walk fast to slow as my cool down and ended right back at Evolution.  You can see my run here... http://app.strava.com/runs/3590019  .

Lifting for core post running is not so back, however lifting for my legs was truly a test of mental grit.  My legs were so tight and weak trying to do my Bulgarian lunges, lateral lunges, and Romanian Dead Lifts.  But I changed back into my barefoot shoes for lifting to help with balance.  The feel of knowing what part of the foot is not keeping in contact with the ground is so beneficial to the lifting.  I have noticed a HUGE improvement in my stability since the past 4 months of using the barefoot shoes.

So workouts were done and I had a bear of an appetite.  I hope this appetite thing doesn't get too much worse I might not be able to afford to feed myself enough for the training.  LOL!