I don’t think I’ve mentioned this in a post, but I ended up missing my scheduled goal race - the Denver Half-Marathon - because of a death in the family. As much as I love to train and race, family matters will always take priority with me.
All-in-all, I ended up missing about two weeks of training - no running, no cross-training, nothing. Highly unusual for me.
So, now I’m trying to resume training. It’s been a bit difficult, although I guess I should have anticipated this (according to Cool Running, “it takes about two weeks of ‘retraining’ to come back from every week in which you do no exercise“).
I resumed running last Friday, doing 3 slow miles, followed by another slow 9 on Saturday. On Sunday, my quads were really sore, so I took the day off. So far this week, I ran a slow 3 miles on Monday, did about 30 minutes on an elliptical on Tuesday, ran about 2 1/2 miles of intervals on Wednesday + about another 1 1/2 between the warmup and cooldown, and then ran another slow 3 today. I plan to continue about like this for another couple of weeks - mostly slow runs, with maybe one short speed session per week, a bit of cross-training, and a longer weekend run to get back into the swing of things.
In about mid-November, I’ll resume training in earnest. My goals at this point for 2008 are to run a spring half-marathon and to run the New York Marathon in November.
I’d love to hear from you about what your running goals are for next year, and how you’ve come back after a short layoff. For those of you that haven’t run your fall goal race yet, good luck and run fast!
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