Week 2- Sept 21-27, 2008

Well I am knee deep in week two. This has been a rough week. Shin splints kept me on the elliptical machine Monday, Tuesday was weight day and last night was the first night that I have ran. I did a 5 minute warmup walk around the YMCA 1/6 mile indoor track, then 4 intervals of 1/3 mile run and 1/6 mile walk, then 1 lap cool down. After completing this I could barely walk from the shin splints, I decided to try stretching my calves to help with the pain and after 5 minutes of runners stretches the pain was completely gone! I am now a stretching believer. When I got home last night I put some ice on my shins for about 20 minutes and the when I woke this morning there was zero pain...first time in two weeks that I didn't hurt. Tonight is weight day so I will give the shins a day to rest, before hitting again on Friday. The program is really pretty easy right now and I am looking forward to 4 or 5 weeks down the road when I can continuously run for 3-4 miles. I guess I can't expect to sit around for 20 years and then think that I should be able to run like a kid after only a couple of weeks. I registered for the Tacoma City Marathon this morning so I can't chicken out now. Or at least if I do it will cost me $60. Early registration saves you $50 over the day of race registration so I figured that I might as well do it early. Until next time....