Day 6, 7, and 8

Got a little behind on the blogging but not with the training, yippee!

Day 6

This was my first long run of my official marathon training and it was 6 miles. My plan was to wake up early and get it done before the heat started. It didn't work out that way. The day before (Friday), we found out my husband's Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin were going to be in Daytona beach for the day and night. That is only about an hour and a half away while they live in Leesburg, which is about 3 hours away...big difference. We haven't seen them in a while, so I took off from work at about 3:30 and we headed that way. 

We had a great time but it was really hard to leave. We probably would have stayed but we had left the dog at home, so we left at about 10:30. Normally I am the late night driver. My husband falls asleep pretty early but I can usually stay awake. Not that day. I had woken up that morning early to do the 5 mile run and I think after 5 days of waking up early, I was done. So my husband drove for about 45 minutes and decided he couldn't go on...so we took a nap at the rest stop! lol We planned on napping for 15 minutes but that turned into about 45, by then my husband felt good enough to finish the drive...I felt like I was going to puke, haha. Needless to say I was happy to be home, but I still had to take the dog out (a bit of an ordeal since we live on the 4th floor of a condo). By the time we got to bed it was after 1:30...my 6 am wakeup call for my 6 mile run was not happening. 

I ended up tearing myself out of bed at about 8:15. My plan was to run 5 miles on my own and a mile with my dog. My husband decided to run with me so I did a mile with the dog first and then my husband joined me for 5...we didn't end up running until almost 10...blahhh...hot. Because we were both tired and hot, so we decided to try the 5 minutes run, 1 minute walk method and that got us through it...phew...

Day 7

This was a cross training workout and so I did a circuit of jumpies, kettle bell swings, and an ab workout. I also ran with my dog for a mile. I would have liked to have done sprints with my husband but he wasn't really in the mood for a workout yesterday...I can't blame him - Friday was long (see above) and Saturday ended up being a long day too. 

Day 8

Ok, we are finally to today! I woke up early (yay!) and I felt  A LOT better than I did when I woke up on Monday last week to run. That is probably because I had just got back from a vacation or maybe I am just more used to it, either way I felt really great during the run. 

Today was a 3 mile and my husband decided to do it with me, yay! It is a little hard when he randomly decides to run with me in the morning because he takes longer to get ready and I have to be out the door at a certain time so if I don't plan for the extra time...I get grumpy that I am going to be late. Well, today luckily I had woken up extra early because we left almost 20 minutes later that I planned. My husband also told me this morning that he is going to train all week with me and if he likes it he is going to do the marathon with me, yay! We will see how it goes, I will update you as the week goes on :). Ciao!