Well, about a week has past since my marathon so I decided it was time to hit the pavement again for a run.  Everything felt pretty good except for my achillies on the left side.  It was a little sore during the run and now that I am sitting her writing this I can tell that I ran on it this morning.  No real pain, just some mild tenderness.  My legs felt tired after the run, but some of that was from my weight session on Saturday and my legs being sore from that.  I will be running every other day with a gym workout between running days.

AP:  8:07

After some pain in my achillies yesterday I decided I would take a little more time off running (with the advice of Rhett of course).  I did a 20 minute gym workout where I worked my quads, chest, and biceps.  After that quick workout I did 20 minutes on the bike.  The 20 minutes ended up being a little more than 6.5 miles.

Did a slow run with my wife.  We just talked and had a nice jog enjoying the weather.

Ran to the gym and did a weight session.

35 minute weight lifting session and 21 minute bike ride on the stationary bike.

Cross training with some weights

I am getting into triathlon training so I am doing a lot of cross training with my running.  I had a really good run this morning.  My legs felt very good and I ran at a tempo pace and did not feel like I was pushing hard at all.  I did a 20 minute swim at the pool to start and followed the swim with the run after reading scriptures and praying with the family.  Not sure the distance on the swim.  I only had 20 minutes so I just swam to have fun.

AP on run:  7:41
 

35 minute weight session followed by 30 minutes on the stationary bike. 

This week I am really trying to get a few  good runs in.  I have not had a lot of time to run the past couple weeks so I am looking forward to at least 3 good runs.  My marathon was 4 weeks ago and I actually felt tired at around mile 6.  It is amazing how fast it goes away, but hopefully it comes back fast too.  My AP was good and the pace I ran at was very comfortable so I was happy with the fact that I was still able to run with some speed.

AP:  7:40 for the first 7 miles and the last .6 I did just as a recovery to try to aviod being too sore the next day.

I had a good workout this morning.  30 minute weight session at the gym followed by an 18 mile bike ride.  Today was the first time I have rode the bike outside and it felt really good.  Pretty soon I will be man enough like Rhett to actually swim in the lake.