Week # 5

The Big race day is just arround the corner. Two more weekends and that's it the third weekend from now is the big day Nov 22nd Philly marathon and half marathon race day. Training is going good so far with no major injuries.The weekday runs were good we could run almost all scheduled days. so below is our week 5 schedule.


Training-10/19/09-10/25/09 ::: Week # 5

Monday- off- relax and stretch
Tuesday- 3 miles easy --yes
Wednesday- 4 miles easy --yes
Thursday- Off- strength- train- crunches and push-ups
Friday- 4 miles easy --yes
Saturday- Off- relax and stretch
Sunday- 8 miles



.....for sunday run we woke up as usual around 6.00am got dressed and tied up the laces to start the day. I don't remember the temperature but It wasn't that cold. We got into the car and started heading towards kingston lock the usual spot for long runs. It takes 10mins from my place to get to kingston lock.We reached the spot and found sriram who was trying to setup the water bottles for runners. I and madhu had a chat with sriram when he mentioned that coach Tom was also running today. So we started running but this time we had to run along trail 2 not trail1 as trail 1 was flooded becuase of the heavy rain the day before. Personally I like new trail much better than old trail. The new trail is much wider and little less trees on both sides compared to the old one. The first water stop was after 2.2miles so to finish 8 miles we had to go lillte beyond 2nd water stop and come back that would make total of 8 miles. The first 2.2miles was ok I managed to run most of it without much walking. Madhu reached 1st water stop way ahead of me and waited for me then we both started from there to strech our legs for another 2 miles to finish the first four miles. Here started the problem I had to pee and wasn't sure if I want to or not and I was also little hesitant. Madhu said thats ok you can go ahead there is nothing wrong in it but I was still contemplating and finally decided to pee behind the bushes :) for the first time. I have seen people do it before but never did and this time couldn't help it. What do you do when you have no other options Within 5 mins we started running again and it took almost 2 hours 30mins for us to complete 8miles with all the stops and all. After run we met coach for the first time and he showed us some streatching excercise to do after run which I thought were very helpful. We had a sip of gatorade and then started heading towards home. While we were driving back we were discussing about going to Poconos for fall foliage visit. All about Pocono's visit in my next post labeled Poconos.