So after a 7 mile workout in 90 minutes on Thursday, followed by a 25 minute cool down, I knew that I would be sore. I honestly thought my level of discomfort would be higher than it was, and it was truly only bad when I had been sitting for a long time and then went to move. Soccer last night did not hurt too much after I warmed up, either, which was also very encouraging.
With the workout plan that I have formulated, I have a hard workout where I am truly working on increasing time and/or distance. Then an easy run of shorter time and distance the next day. Day 3 is a day off from running, but not necessarily being lazy. These are days to workout while at work if I get the chance. The 4th day is then another easy workout, followed by another hard workout. This way I am pushing my time and distance without burning myself out.
Before I decided to do the Corvallis Half Marathon on April 10th, I bought 3 Jillian Michaels workout DVDs. This was my way of committing to work out. Workout videos have never been my thing, and I don't admit this lightly. But because I was finding ways to get out of working out, and seeing changes that I did not like at all, I needed to do SOMETHING to make me stick to a routine.
Hard workout Thursday, soccer for moderate workout Friday, and work today means an alternative means of being active. My new DVDs arrived just yesterday and I figured once the clients went to bed I could pop one of those in and be just fine. I chose a 50 minute plan, including 5 minutes each of warm up and cool down times. I did not finish. That workout was butt kicking... I made it half way! I will say that some of this is directly due to residual soreness from marathon training 2 days ago, but the fact is that it was also just that challenging! So with that said, tomorrow is a moderate run, and I am really going to try and bring in some more of this workout video too!
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