{"id":5559,"date":"2016-02-05T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2016-04-12T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:42:15","slug":"this-is-what-im-doing-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/05\/this-is-what-im-doing-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what I’m doing right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week has been a rollercoaster for me, and for no real reason.\u00a0 Monday, I was OVERJOYED because I was able to run again.\u00a0 Monday night and Tuesday, my hip was a little cranky, so I was crushed.\u00a0 I was looking forward to a nice week of running but it was not to be.<\/p>\n

\"oct13-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I felt like I was between a rock and a hard place with marathon training.<\/em><\/p>\n

We took Tuesday to be a “treat yo self” day because we were both being grumps, splurging on a 25 dollar lobster roll for lunch (at least we split it), and going for massages after work instead of biking or swimming or going to the bar or just going to fucking sleep at 6pm, because all of those things were actually options on the table for me.<\/p>\n

During the massage, which was the right call, I sorted through a lot of thoughts.<\/p>\n

First of all,<\/strong> I am ridiculous having lobster sandwiches and getting massages like a rap star, or something.\u00a0 Only a complete asshole can call that a bad day.\u00a0 That one actually made me giggle out loud.<\/p>\n

Second of all,<\/strong> I may be freaking out about pulling back on the run mileage this month, but it’s going to be fine.<\/p>\n

\"fine\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Really.\u00a0 This is fine.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve got this pretty darn big engine right now. I’ve been specifically training for long distance stuff since August, and the body doesn’t just up and forget that shit in 2 weeks (but what it DOES do in 2 weeks is get rested and rested legs are AWESOME!).<\/p>\n

This is the engine that let me bust out a 7k swim when I’ve done less than that TOTAL since September, and be relatively fine after the fact.\u00a0 This is the engine that busted out a spectacular 20 miler 2 weeks into marathon training in October after just a couple 13s and two 15s.\u00a0 This is the engine that’s going to get me across the marathon finish line JUST FINE if I don’t let my head get in the way.\u00a0 As long as I don’t sit on my ass and do nothing for the next 5 weeks, the engine will be alright.<\/p>\n

My body and mind have let me know that the portion of the cycle that involve beating myself senseless with miles is over.\u00a0 Done. Finito.\u00a0 It was a necessary part of building that engine to be what it is, but now it’s time to put some gas in it and rev it up a little.<\/p>\n

I’m going to move over to (something similar to) the FIRST marathon training program<\/a> for the last 5 weeks of this cycle.\u00a0 It looks something like this on a typical week:<\/p>\n