My second Team Camp

Every Labor Day weekend is planned for me until I decide not to associate myself with my running club, which will probably not happen. This was my second planned Labor Day, and I don't think I learned from the last one.

Lessons:
1) Take Friday off work. Traffic is horrendous all afternoon/evening Friday, so either leave in the early morning on Friday, or leave Thursday after work.
2) If you are planning to get anything done (like read a book) Labor Day weekend, forget it. It won't happen. All you will do is drink, socialize, sleep and run, in that order.
3) Make sure people your age are coming! All those old guys can get a little creepy sometimes.
4) Go to the meetings. They made me cross country captain for the women's open team while I was napping.
5) Bring chocolate and/or alcohol. Everyone will love you.

Actually, I'm really excited about number 4. If nothing else, it will keep me from quitting half-way through the season like I did last year.

Morning Weight: 143.5
Miles Today: 8
Other Exercise: None
Total Miles this Week: 58.5

Banished to the Treadmill

Wow. So my hamstring finally felt better today. Yesterday, I was running to the track and it wasn't feeling good at all. So, I turned around grudgingly and got in the car, drove to the gym, and did the rest of my warm-up on the treadmill. The treadmill felt excellent, so I figured out how to program the equivalent of 2x(4x400) w/ equal time recovery and I was set! I did my second run on the treadmill too. That made all the difference to my hammy. Yay! I'm so glad I didn't have to do my workout on the elliptical. I really need to find an emergency pool I can go to that has a deep-end for injuries. My gym's pool doesn't get any deeper than 4 feet.

Camp is this weekend. I'm preparing to get left in the dust, drink a lot and try to avoid the sweets. I won't have the s'mores. Nope. Oh yeah. And run a lot too.

Morning Weight: 144.5
Miles Today: 8.5
Other Exercise: None
Total Miles this Week: 48