Hello sore muscles

Monday and Wednesday of this week were my 5k/3.11 mile days and I can really tell that the time I took off in December and January took a toll on my speed as it took 26 minutes and 57 seconds on Monday and 26 minutes 39 seconds on Wednesday to run 5k. I've been running on an incline of 2 at 6-8 mph and warming up at 5mph. I can tell I am not as strong as before we ran the Rock n Roll half marathon in Las Vegas since I got tired around 3.5k each of the days. Saturday will be my 10k run so we'll see how I will fair. I cross trained on Tuesday and I am still feeling sore in my inner thighs, back and biceps from weight lifting. I also did a magic mile just to see where I am at and it is 8:17 which is disappointing, but I am getting back into it and hopefully will be ready to run the Edmonton Derby marathon by August in under 4 hours.

Trevor did an insanity work out with his coworker this morning. I am not going to get into insanity since I need to focus on running and cycling endurance for the duathlons and the marathon.

I admit I am afraid to do the duathlon because I am not sure if I'd be able to do the cycling portion in a decent amount of time as the cut off is 2 hours 45 minutes for one of them so I am hesitant to register unless I know I can do all of that cycling and so far only one out of four of us that are supposed to be doing the duathlons have registered lol. If we don't get our butts into gear and start being hardcore about cycling it probably won't happen.

I have cut out red meat from my diet and have been eating chicken, sole, tilapia, cod and salmon and try to have 2-4 servings of fruits/vegetables with each meal. I still eat oatmeal and brown rice as we still like gariny carbohydrates. My protein comes from non-animal sources for breakfast and lunch and for dinner after I run/work out I will have chicken or fish with vegetables.

Tomorrow is Valentine's day so I shall be having a rest day and same with Friday, but I will make up for it on Sunday with a cross training day and a 10k run on Saturday.