Gettin pumped for Monday

Feeling back to 100% today. Did a "short run" on the treadmill. (see http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/marathon-training-schedule.html  for details on types of runs and my full 6-month marathon training plan)

I am realizing that my waking/sleeping schedule and times of day when I eat are going to need to change if I am really going to stick with this plan. My aunt is coming to visit tomorrow night (the night before my official training begins) and it would be more than easy to just let everything slide while company is here. Not to mention we are taking a holiday to Scotland in May, then more visitors in June, etc etc, and the excuses are bound to pile up. The only way I will be able to really stick with my training is if I get up early enough to have it all done before everyone wakes and wants to socialize. Our treadmill is in the living room and can get pretty loud. Our whole family uses the treadmill, even the dog. What's that? You want proof?

What a good boy... and the dog too

This is why I've planned out my 2-mile run routes for outside the house when she's here. Luckily she's only here during my first week of training so I won't need to be away for more than an hour or so.


I'm kinda freaked about jogging outside the house because of the intensity of the Caribbean heat. It is killer if you're not used to it. And I'm not. Probably never will be. Before 8am it's not so bad, so I'm aiming to leave the house by 7am on Monday. I see people here doing it all the time, and at all hours, I usually call them freaks in my head, but Monday morning I will become one of them.

Resistance is futile.

Food:
Woke-9am - Had 1 and a half pieces of homemade wheat seeded bread
1pm - 2 cups coffee, 1 bowl of Total greek yogurt, granola, stewed blueberries and a tiny bit of honey, 1 apple
4pm - 1 large raw carrot
7.30pm - 1 bowl vegetable stew (leftover from yesterday) contains squash, sweet potatoes, pearl barley, celery, loads of mixed pulses (split peas, lentils, brown rice), fresh herbs (parsley, thyme, rosemary, marjoram) with 1 chicken breast and part thigh, 1 piece of homemade wheat seeded bread with butter
3 pints water throughout day
10.45pm - cup of earl grey tea

Exercise:
10am - Did "short run" - 2 miles on treadmill and 228 calories burned,
11am - did "post-run" yoga - http://youtu.be/2Hf_u0AGdEA
4.30pm - 40 min brisk walk with dog