25 Days to the Chicago Marathon

25 days to the Chicago Marathon!  Writing daily posts is actually going a long way to keeping me thinking about my training and making the extra effort to get my workouts in.

After not making it to the gym to swim yesterday morning, I did make it last night.  My gym has open swimming from 8-9:30.  I went about 8:45, thinking it would start to empty out, but that was not the case.  All lanes were used, and I struggled in the ‘slow’ lane along with some others.  My last swim was at the NJ State tri in late July, at least 6 weeks ago.  So, a lot of rust on my already sad skills.  Just did 600 meters, and now need to get to the pool twice a week leading up to my tri in Red Bank on 10/3.

Then, this morning, not only got up early to get my run in, but extended my normal morning run to 7 miles.  In the morning, I typically run 4-5.5, but this is the time to start pushing.  I was definitely feeling a little off kilter after softball Monday and swimming yesterday, 2 activities I had not done in a while.  After getting good and warmed up in the first few miles, I really hit my stride heading down 1st Ave (in the new bike lane), and ran at a nice hard effort to finish up.  The last 2 miles were under 19 minutes, which is faster than I have been running lately on those same 2 miles in recent morning workouts in East River Park.  I love the symmetry of the route today.  Nice looking loop, and looks like a mini model of NYC. – http://www.dailymile.com/routes/273674-running-route-in-new-york-ny

Undecided about tomorrow.  I want to make sure I’m well-rested for the 18 mile race on Sunday, which will be 20 for me as I will add 2 miles at the start.  Not sure if I will take tomorrow off and run Friday, or run tomorrow and take off Friday.  Either way, I’d like 2 running days off before Sunday.  I’m thinking I might do a light bike ride tomorrow and run on Friday.  We will see…

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