Terrible Training Day

March 13 (Week 4 day 4) Ironman Triathlon Training

Well last night's run was probably the worst I've had since I started training. Nothing seemed to go right. I headed to the gym after work to start my 90 minutes run. My goal was to run 10.5 miles in the 90 minutes. I got there only to realize that I forgot my head phones, then I realized I forgot my towel. Not good. I decided to run anyway and the first two miles seemed great. I was running at 8mph and then my left foot started cramping water, gatorade, powerbars nothing seemed to work. I thought that I had forgotten my shoe inserts so my arch wasn't being supported (this turned out to not be the case so I have no idea why it happened). At the two and a half mile mark I had to slow down to 4mph. I was watching Survivor by this point and decided that I would run only on the commericials (as they timed out to be about three and half minutes in duration each and this is about all my foot could stand running before it would start hurting again). After 70 minutes I had to call it quits my foot was hurting too bad and even walking was now bothering it. I had only done 6.5 miles well short of my 10.5 mile goal in 90 minutes like I wanted and I don't think i could have run at 12 mph for the last 20 minutes to make up the difference.

Any way even this morning my foot was hurting so bad that I couldn't get a workout it. This weekend I'm head to my parents house and my fiance and I brought our bikes so lets hope I have a good weekend of training.