Intensity or Insanity?
Sticking to a marathon training schedule can be intense at times. But this week it felt more insane than intense. The problem was I have been traveling this week and I had to stay at the airport hotel since all the hotels in Hartford were booked. Following my marathon training program required that I do 3 miles on Monday, 7 miles on Tuesday and 3 miles on Wed.
Monday was no problem. I got up early before I left for the airport and knocked out 3. Tuesday was a different story. I quickly figured out the the airport hotel was not catering to pedestrians (and runners), but I was determined to stick to my program even though I did not have a rental car. I had to run in the ditch arround the terminals and out of the airport following the route to the rental car facilities. Finally, I found a subdivision and could exit the ditch after 1 1/2 miles to run on sidewalks in a nearby neigborhood. At times running through the ditch, I was wondering if I'm the only one crazy enough to try this. In any event I got in a good workout, and even have the run route recorded in my Garmin Forerunner 301 GPS device as proof that I ran through this silly route.
Tags: running, marathon, forerunner