Week 7 was a Roller Coaster Ride

Week of February 4th-10th:

I started my training week on Tuesday with my first speed workout. It began with 10 minutes at an easy pace. At 10 minutes, I picked up the pace to a 7:30 minute mile for one minute followed with a 1 minute jog. I repeated this 5x's. The workout didn't end there. I finished the session with a 55 minute easy run bring the total time on my legs to 1hr and 15 minutes. I have just survived my first speed workout.

Wednesday, I enjoyed a cross training session in the comfort of my home. This is also the day my oldest daughter, Gabriella became ill with a stomach virus. I kept thinking "please don't get sick".

Gabriella was still not feeling well on Thursday, so this forced me to cancel my running session in the morning. I had to wait for my husband to come home from work that evening to complete my speed workout on the track. I dislike training in the evening. But, to my surprise, once I started the session, I felt great. I started out with a 55 minute easy run followed by a 1 minute pick up at a 7:30 minute mile with a 1 minute jog to follow. I repeated this 5x's. The session ended with a 10 minute easy run totaling 1 hour 15 minutes. What a relief... My first week of speed work was done and I survived it!

Finally, Gabriella felt well enough to go to school but it was canceled due to the snow blizzard that was predicted. No problem... My basement is set up for days like this. Oh, no, wait... a snow blizzard the day before my first fundraiser?! No problem. The show must go on, and it did.

I woke up in the darkness on Saturday. I had my first fundraiser. With the snow that covered the ground during the overnight hours, I had no idea what to expect. It took me twenty minutes to dig my car out and, to my surprise, the roads were not bad. I arrived at Crossfit Beyond just a bit past 8am. Thirty-two people had signed up in advance for the event and I expected more people to show up and sign up that morning. Registration for the event opened at 8:45 am. Fifteen minutes went by and no new faces showed up. At about 9:30 am people start walking in. What a relief. The work out of the day was "Fight Gone Bad". After a short break we were broken down into teams and did a team workout. What fun was had by all. There were people trying out Crossfit for the first time. No one complained. Every one was having a great time. At about noon time we all enjoyed a delicious chicken lunch along with some pizza and tilapia soup. It turned out to be a great day. We raised $1513 for a great cause.

Crossfit Fundraiser

What a great day Saturday turned out to be. I arrived at my house from the days event just after 2:30pm feeling a bit spent. All of a sudden, I felt very tired. I soaked in a hot epsom salt bath and almost fell asleep. As the time went by, I wasn't feeling to great. I felt very nauseous. I thought, "this can't be happening." All I kept thinking about was the three hour+ run I had to do the next morning. As night set in, I began getting sick. Something did not agree with me at lunch time. I felt so weak. I could not eat nor drink anything and became dehydrated. All I wanted to do was sleep. So off to bed I went, hoping that maybe in the morning I would feel well enough to go for my run.

My watch alarm went off at 5:30 am on Sunday. My body felt weak. Still, I tried to eat something to see how my stomach would react. I toasted a bagel and took a few bites. I began to sweat and shiver then I felt faint. I thought, "get your ass back in bed". And so I did. Sunday came and went and so did my long run. The long run is the one run I hate to miss. I'd rather miss a run during the weekday than miss a long run. But, I also know that missing one long run isn't going to break me. I really believe that it was God's way of slowing me down and forcing me to take a few days off. In the end my body will thank me. I am sure of it. 

Thank you for stopping by,

Sheila