My Journey with Weight Loss – A Hard Week Of Training

So my husband has been home for a week now. He thought retirement meant sleeping in every day and just puttering around the house. However, that is not how this household works. There is no sleeping in, get up time is 5am most days (I didn’t make him get up at 4am with me on Thursday when I did my long run), tea and breakfast is only made once and really it is not to order. This morning I remembered how he is not a morning person and can be quite nasty. I took him aside and told him, you don’t want to chit chat, that is fine, but you need to be polite and respectful. May have to keep working on this but we will get there.

If you recall I mentioned that when I first saw my training for this week I thought it was quite easy but I soon realized I was wrong. So let’s review, an easy 5k, next a 5k with 1 set of sprint training, hill training, a 14k run, another 5k with 2 sets of sprint training and a fourth 5k with 3 sets of sprint training. I figured it was going to be a bit challenging but that was ok, I could get through it.

Let me be clear, this was the hardest week of training I have done. Now, I remember when the thought of running for 10 minute intervals seemed daunting. I remember the first time Coach said to do a 12k and I was sure it would kill me so how could this week have been so hard. Well, let me tell you, that sprint training is just brutal. Ok, 1 set of sprint training during a run is ok, 2 is really hard, 3 is for God’s sake why am I doing this to myself!

Yesterday when I did the 2 sets of sprint training running along the beach I realized I needed to find a way to be successful doing the 3 sets. So, I decided this morning to do my training on the dreaded treadmill. There was couple reasons for this, firstly running on the treadmill is easier than running outside and secondly, no hills would be involved. Still, when I was doing that 3rd set I had to keep chanting to myself, you are running faster. Yes, I did it and it didn’t kill me but boy did I ever feel it.

Here’s the thing though, when I got off that treadmill this morning I thought good on you, you pushed through it and got it done. I really want to try this again next week and see if I can do it even better. I think back to a year ago when I was so far from as fit as I am now and remember it was really hard then as well but I kept going and look where it got me. I realized, I am good with training hard!