Holidays. Finally.

I had intended to write up something about my last big run (not this last Saturday but the Saturday before), but I’ve been feeling a bit brain-melty lately and never got my act together. So here it is now. I got up late again. It’s funny how I have started to consider a start later than 6am to be ‘late’, but in the summer heat, it is late. With a long run of three hours, it’s incredibly late by the time I get back. And hot. I decided to do three laps of Lake Ginninderra, and although I was hoping to make 24 km, I managed 25. So I’m a little behind on my marathon training, but not incredibly. The task is still achievable, I hope.

Last Friday I was in Sydney for my Zumba Basics 1 Instructor training with Tanya Beardsley (who is awesome, by the way), and the Zumbathon on Friday night. So all day, from 9am to... Not sure. 10:30? at night, I wasn’t exactly dancing non-stop, but it was a high-energy day. On Saturday morning, I went to a Zumba masterclass. Then I caught the bus home. Everything hurt. Every muscle. I’m feeling a bit better now but I still feel twinges from some of the lesser-used muscles. On the inside of my knees, in my triceps, my shoulders, there’s still tightness. There’s a warning soreness in my shins that tells me I’d better get some more supportive Zumba shoes or face the disappointment of shin splints again. Most of all, my obliques are sore. But I don’t mind about that. I don’t get much in the way of abdominal workouts these days.

I did go for a run this morning. Not a long one, just a slow 13 k. At about 8 or 9 kilometres I started to feel like the light was just a little too bright, and my vision got swimmy. By 10 kilometres, I felt like I was wearing blinkers. I knew I had a migraine coming on, but as I don’t tend to bring painkillers on a run with me, there was not a lot I could do about it. I don’t remember the last time I got a migraine during a run. It had to have been a long time ago.

At this point, I’m planning to do my long run on Wednesday. We’re heading to the Gold Coast on Saturday and we’re not coming back until the following Saturday, so I won’t have a chance to run for a while. This might cause some delays with my marathon training, but I’m not worried, yet.