Countown Day 304: Synneva and Training
Training has been slow for the last two weeks. A lot of stuff going on, but luckily it was only happy things. We welcomed Synneva Mavis into the world on November 30th which has taken the front seat. I’ve still been making it to the gym a bit, but because I’ve been up multiple times a night I haven’t had much energy to run. Walking and sauna have been all I’ve been doing. Which is fine. Things will settle down in the upcoming weeks.
Countdown: 315
Been working out at they gym pretty much every day for at least a bit. Slowly seeing progress in my lung capacity which is very welcome. I was feeling my best at the gym in a long while.
I was entered in the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving. In the first half I started to have shin splints. Decided it was smarter long term to wind down and stop the race. No big deal.
I’ll be trying to do most of the TCM events in 2024. Hot Dish is the next one in March.
Days until marathon weekend: 324
The days are speeding along quickly. Still building up. Adding some Core and Upper body movements starting this week. Once I get yogging at a better pace, or maybe this week, the plan is to start doing cold tub sessions at the gym.
Two workouts from Strava show up on micro.blog, but not on Mastodon or BlueSky. They can be found here: eschapp.micro.blog for the time being.
366 to TCM Day 355
Rainy day, planning on running tomorrow. Just walked on a treadmill at LifeTime in Highland Park. Still in that phase that makes being on one is too boring to keep going longer. That’ll have to change as the weather turns, but man it is so boring.
366 to TCM Day 357
Stretching day.
366 to TCM Day 358
Taking it easy today. Walk and sauna.
366 to TCM Day 359
Trying to get a run in this afternoon.
Update:
I was able to get a short run in this afternoon. It wasn’t my best by any means but it was nice to get out there in the nice fall winter. Its a marathon (😎) not a sprint to get ready for the Twins Cities Marathon. Still almost a year out.
366 to TCM Day 360
Didn’t get much done today because of the rain and getting the house organized. About 6000 steps and carrying a bunch of stuff around is at least something.