The (Wo)man With a Plan

For the past couple of days, I've been thinking about how it would probably be really beneficial for me to have some kind of training plan written out to stick to. So last night I finally sat down and came up with something that I hope will work. I'm planning on doing PulseTread workouts on the treadmill two or three times a week, as well as a long-ish run (45 minutes for now) early in the week and another long run (5 miles this week, adding a mile each week) on Saturdays.

Since it was beautiful out this morning, I decided to do my 45 minute run outside instead of on the tredmill. My allergies made me regret this decision pretty early on but I suffered through and did the full 45 minutes with only three one-minute walking breaks.

It's amazing to me how much slower I am running outside than on the treadmill and it's kind of disappointing. I'm planning to do my two long runs each week outside because of this (unless it's raining because let's be real, me and precipitation aren't simpatico).

I finally got home and felt like crap so I curled up on the futon with some blankets for a while and had some dark chocolate almond milk and a Luna bar. If you haven't tried the Silk dark chocolate almond milk, you are missing out! I wasn't a big fan of the regular almond milk, but this stuff is so delicious. Plus, chocolate milk is supposed to be great after a work out (or so my little brother tells me).