The Running Chiropractor: Oh the craziness! Week in Review, February 10-16!

It's been a couple weeks since I last blogged about how things are going. Last week was a great week. Even with the snow that was still covering the sidewalks and the ice on the roads, I managed to get myself on the treadmill 3 days in a row which allowed me to have a great week of running overall. The goal was to get to 58 miles last week. Much to my surprise, I nailed it. The last few weeks have been physically and mentally exhausting. We closed on our house at the end of January. The first weekend into February, we started ripping down wood panels and scraping popcorn ceilings. Then we had to haul a beam into our attic through an upstairs window. This was no small task. Thankfully, I had some great help with this one or there was no way this was going to happen. *Shout out to my Dad and Father-In-Law for this one* When we bought the house, it consisted of two small living room spaces with the smaller of the two containing the fireplace. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to open it up into one large living space so in order to do that, a beam was going to be needed that spanned approximately 20 feet wide in order to hang the ceiling joists from it. It took us a full day until 10:00 p.m. to get the beam positioned and the ceiling hung from it. I know I was sore the next day from all this hard work so I can only imagine how my Dad and Father-In-Law were feeling. Doing all this work makes running more challenging but so far it hasn't prevented me from getting the best of both worlds.

Thanks to the weather warming up, Kimi and I were able to finally complete a solid long run of 15 miles over the weekend. We originally had planned on doing a 4 mile tempo run on Saturday but decided against it because we wanted to focus on having a strong long run this week along with a full solid week. With the running mileage goal completed, I'm setting my sites on 60 miles this week. It started off well with a 9 miler on Monday but Tuesday was rough as fatigue from the weekend set in. I settled for 5 slow miles on Tuesday and so I'll plan on having a better *less windy hopefully* Wednesday run.