I've gotten into a terrible habit of working over the weekend during the last few months and I'm trying to break myself of it. Originally I was just trying to get a jump on the week but unfortunately I started to add work into that time-slot and as time went on it just ended up being a way that I could increase the time I had available to work. Well, no more.
The only problem is that since I decided to stop working during the weekends I feel guilty Sunday nights, when I feel like I should be panicking. So I've decided that instead I'm going to try to get into the habit of updating the blog and keeping in touch with my friends & family.
In terms of running I'm trying something a little different now. My friend Adam let me borrow a book called Daniels' Running Formula. Prior to this I'd been doing training off of Hal Higdon's website, but I'd like to increase my speed and I wasn't finding that simply jumping up from Novice programs to intermediate programs was really doing anything for me. What I really hated was the speedwork in the Higdon program.
The great thing about the Daniels book is that he talks a lot about the physiological aspects of running, such as how the body systems respond to different training and why runners do different kinds of training. He explains some running concepts that someone like me, who came to running as an adult, wouldn't have had an opportunity to learn.
With the help of the book I've identified that the purpose of my training now should be to be to build a base of weekly mileage that will help me get my cardiovascular systems improved and avoid injury later down the line when I start doing more challenging workouts. At the moment I'm running about 16 miles per week. I run 5 times a week, with a long run of 4 miles on Sunday and 3 mile runs Tues, Wed, Thurs, and Sat. I'll be doing this for the next two weeks, after which I'll increase my mileage. I've started to suss out my plan here if you're interested.
As far as Halloween goes the kids were both with their other parents this weekend so yesterday Jen and I headed down to the beach to have a date night. We brought our new/old little dog Jack along with us and he was absolutely adorable on the beach - so cute.
We decided to spoil the dogs and picked up a bounty for them at Petco on the way home. I am now officially the kind of person who has a dog that needs a coat. And I don't care at all.
