first entry - 3rd week of training

okay, so i decided to start this blog because i wanted to be able to remember how hard i worked to train for my first half marathon. so here we go.

i started training in march. the first week of april i pulled a groin muscle and was out of the game for a good long while until i went to a physical therapist, who was a dream come true. in the meantime, i started up with bikram yoga. holy hell is that an amazing workout. sweaty - but amazing.

the first day at bikram yoga i can remember thinking, "oh! so this is why i injured myself running...i have NO strength in my legs." good to know. so i have been doing bikram at least 3-4 times per week (though in the beginning it was more like 5 or 6 times per week) for a month and a half. my body feels completely different. it is crazy.

so now i am on to a training schedule that i created which links bikram yoga, running (obviously - since i am still training for the half) and these hip strengthening exercises my PT instructed me to do. apparently though my soul is strong, my hips are weak.

today i did my hip exercises and ran 5 miles. i am drinking lots of water since i think when i ran 6 miles on sunday i overdid the exertion and under-did (?) the water intake. i felt shakey and awful. 6 miles is the most i have ever run, so maybe that had something to do with it. anyway, i went to bikram yoga the next day and thought i was going to vomit in the studio. :) wouldn't that have been fun?

since the near-vomiting experience, i ran 3 miles, took a break yesterday, and then ran today, as I said. my next big run in saturday since my 10 year high school reunion is on saturday evening and i feel the open bar might get the best of me at that venue - so my long runs which are usually supposed to be scheduled for sundays, this week will be saturday. not terribly exciting, but i guess worth noting. (obviously i think it's worth noting since i took note of it.)

here is my schedule: