This week I feel like I am back in the game, with a 14 mile run on Saturday at the faster marathon pace that felt great.
I also spent quite a bit of time in the gym working on hills and interval training as it is supposed to be good training and good practice for teaching your muscles to process the flow of lactic acid. making your muscles burn and then letting them recover and then making them burn again is supposed to be great preparation for the end of the marathon when everything starts to hurt.
At the gym I also had a full body assessment, including fat pinch test and coordination test etc etc. It turns out that I have put on 8 pounds since starting to train for the marathon, but I am choosing to believe that it is all muscle. Apparently I am 25% body fat which is in the healthy range but now I am shooting for 20% which is the indicator of a fit person....
I got really frustrated because of the weight gain so started googling marathon training and weight loss and there were so many posts and articles about how it is really hard to lose weight while training for a marathon because you need the calories to fule yourself.
I guess this means my desire of losing 20 pounds while training for this race may need to be revised. That's ok. I would rather be fit and strong that hot anyway!
This training thing is getting really hard, I am always sore and always tired. I think part of the actual race will be enjoyable knowing that I can not run again for a while once the race is done.
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