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0 I am less than 2 months away from the half and feel like I really need to pick up some of these longer runs. Today I decided to push myself and go for 10 miles. I haven’t ran longer than 10 miles since I ran my half last November, so I know I was going to shock my body.
I started off my routine as I normally do with my big glass of electrolytes, my preworkout, and some stretching. I also prepared a water bottle with 1.5 scoops of electrolytes so I had some way of fueling my body on the run. I ran on the greenway connected to my neighborhood and headed north for 5 miles before turning it back. When running north on the greenway, you are challenged with more hills, which is a reason I really like running in that direction.
By about mile 8.5 – 9, I started feeling some inflammation in my knees and wanted to stop, but didn’t until I hit mile marker 10. Once I hit mile 10, I walked it for another .3 miles before getting home. I know my body wasn’t going to respond that well to this run because I haven’t done one this long in a while, but I need to start building up that tolerance. My goal was to “shock” my body, because I know when I run this distance again in the future, my body will already know what to expect.
Until my half, I want to keep trying to shock my body, so when I have to run 13.1 miles again, my body doesn’t react like it did last year where my lower body locked down as soon as I stopped when crossing the finish line. The goal for this year is to train as if I can keep going!
