running: the dawn

6 weeks?  Oh be still my beating heart.  We are way to close to this marathon.  I know that I’ve been making progress lately, but I don’t ever feel like its enough.  But ready or not…here it comes…

This week’s workouts:
Sunday–18 quick miles, felt fabulous during and after
Monday–5 recovery miles & Jazzercise
Tuesday–Jazzercise
Wednesday–12 miles with 4 at marathon pace
Thursday–10 with 5x1km intervals (see note below)
Friday–6 recovery miles

Total mileage: 51.  Hellooooo 50′s!

So, yeah, about that little interval workout that I did yesterday.  Lesson learned: working out in the morning is IMPARATIVE!  Not only does it get it out of the way so that I can continue with my day, but it’s safer and cooler in the mornings.  Days like yesterday seem to have a cloud over them all day because I didn’t do my run in the morning, I kept trying to figure out when I was going to fit it in.  I kept thinking, “oh, I should go running now.”  But then there were a million other things to do…

So I didn’t start til late.  We’ll call that mistake #1.

The Mr. and I ate a wonderful meal of corn on the cob and zucchini and squash with apples and peanut butter for dessert.  Of course I know better than to go running right after I eat, so I decided to finish the laundry before starting the run. 

I’m going to call running after a full meal mistake #2.

I started my run on the treadmill.  Mostly because I wanted to try it out for the first time .  It had been pretty hot and muggy in the afternoon and I figured I’d do my warm up on the treadmill in the cool of my basement before heading out to do the intervals. 

I’m not exactly sure when I made fatal mistake #3.  Did I drink too much water?  Did I push myself too hard (doubtful, since I was off on my pace for all but the first interval)?  Was it just too muggy?  Am I ill and don’t really know it?

Cause I definitely threw up after my last kilometer interval.  Twice. 

I don’t ever throw up.  Especially when I’m not sick.  And, I’m NOT one that pushes myself to the limits.  I recognize pain and usually stay on this side of that threshold. 

So…yeah.  Not sure what pushed me over the top…Any ideas?