3rd Week
Time: 57 mins
Distance: 10 km
Anyone would have been surprised and shocked by the progress of the third week considering the performances in the first two weeks. Even I was! Frankly, its not the time or the distance I covered during the week but the fear of an injury to my right calf during the 11km run which troubled me and made me reconsider the training schedule. The problem I was facing was that I was unsure of the severity of the pain and no medical attention or a trainer just made matters worse with constant fears of a serious injury doing rounds in my mind.
On the brighter side there were quite a few motivating thoughts...
- Once I start running even though my legs would pain for the initial period it would be fine after sometime. The important thing here is not keep questioning oneself throughout the run and not keep querying about the condition of your muscles. Now this isn't easy but not difficult at all. Try and keep your mind busy in something like for example try revising multiplication tables. I bet this wrks and really wrks well. I tried this during the second week and so the amazing performance that you see.
- Already done 11 km...!
- After all its a mind game.. now I do keep repeating this again and again but its just for the simple reason that your muscle power would get you there but not without the right signals being sent out from your mind.
- Finally I knew if I was going to be 100% fit on the day of the half marathon then I would surely make it!!!