Saturday, February 20, 2010

One week out from marathon

I'm one week out from running my 3rd marathon. Max decided to rest me a little bit before the race - how fortunate am I? There is a ball in my left calf that I have been trying to work out for two days now. It's bugging me because it feels like a cramp waiting to happen. I worked at it a bit today, but I'm not sure I broke it up at all. Used the foam roller on my legs as well - hurts so good! I need to do that more often.

I did 150 wall balls today. I used the heaviest ball I could find which weighed in about 12 pounds - weight was rubbed off the ball from so much use I took it in the locker room and weighed it on the scale. I'm glad this was the heaviest ball I could find - not sure what I would have done with a heavier ball. I forgot to turn my watch on until after the first 50 shots - the last 100 took about five minutes. Assuming I did it even it took me about 7:30.

Finding little niches of time seems to be working for getting me to push the workouts even harder. Like last night when the gym was closing and tonight I was running late for dinner. Tomorrow I have important plans with my daughter so I have to make sure I get the workout in early.

I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their workouts (and hopefully good nutrition).

2 comments:

  1. Enjoy the taper week Martin and good luck for your half marathon, looking forward to reading all about it :)

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  2. Thanks Jane, but I'm running a full marathon. I try not to do anything half way :)

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