Half Marathon Training - week off

In my last training post, I said I might slow down this week because I'd been ramping up a lot.  Well, on Monday my calves were feeling sore, especially walking up the stairs.  I don't mind actual muscle soreness but by Tuesday it was starting to feel different.  The side of my right calf was hurting.  Not a sharp pain or anything, but it was weird enough that I decided I better take a break.  I'd rather take a few days off of running to avoid an injury than to actually injure myself and be done for weeks at a time.  One of my friends said if you get a stress fracture you can't run for 6 weeks.  That would make the half marathon very hard!


So I don't know if I was close to injuring myself but I didn't want to take the chance.


I wanted to exercise, even if it wasn't running.  I got in 3 days on the exercise bike.  30 minutes 2 of those days and 40 minutes one day.  I also went ice skating but I'm not sure that really counts because I was just out having fun and talking to Dave in between and stuff.


And I did run one day, on Sunday.  The weather has turned more normal and it snowed most of the weekend.  They get to our road pretty late compared to everywhere else.  We're in a housing plan on a cul de sac and sometimes they even go to the stop sign before the last part of our street and stop there.  Anyway, with all the snow, I decided not to attempt a run outside.  Besides, if I was feeling sore or something, it would be easier to just get off a treadmill instead of being halfway around North Park and having 2 miles or so to walk/run back to the car.


Even with that, my knee started hurting.  So I hopped off twice to get some Gatorade and see if a little rest would let me keep going.  We'll see how my knee/calf feels the next few days.  My current plan is to do Week 6 this week.  But instead of being a ramping down week, now it's going to be a ramping up week.


Total for the week:
Running 4.52 miles in 0:48:00
Biking 28.9 miles in 1:40:00


Mileage on shoes
Teal: 344.4 miles
Purple: 20.2 miles