Restarting the trainings

Hi again,

It has been a while from my last blog post... That's because I was not training for thee week period. Four weeks ago I had one tooth removed ("wisdom tooth", if that's correct term), and it had some complications. As a result I had 39.9 degrees temperature 1.5 weeks after removal. Luckily the temperature decreased quite quickly, and three days later it was normal again. But it did not mean I could restart trainings right after that; doctor suggested I make a have a one week rest after. So I was able to start trainings again at the start of last week, and made 4 easy sessions in total. I'm still feeling kind of tired, and the running pace for my heart rate zones are not near to the levels I was prior to illness.

Nut I hope I'm now back on track, and that I do not catch any flu or something... It would most likely cause "lost" winter season. But I would really like to be in some acceptable fitness level in spring so I would have some chance to get sub 3:30 marathon time during next season.

So next topic was to choose appropriate training program for coming weeks. I really like the ones provided by Adidas miCoach. So the choices were:

• "Be fit" level 7
• "Learn to run" level 7
• "Climawarm Winter Training" level 4 or 5
• "Football" level 6 or 7 (thanks for miCoach user Damianod for suggestion)

Well, Football program seemed too hard, at least after such health issues. Climawarm was a bit too long at moment, maybe I'll take it next. And there seemed to be no big difference between "Learn to run" and "Be fit" programs so I took the latter one: "Be fit", level 7, 34 training sessions 9 weeks (actually it is 8.5 weeks...), 4 trainings per week.
I also took strength and flexibility "non-equipment training" "Phase 1 - Activate" as addition (9 workouts, 3 weeks, 3 workouts per week). Made the first session today morning: The instructions are telling it takes 15 minutes, but for me it took 27. Well, quite a much was spent for learning the exercises. I think I'm gonna like it: I have not performed strength & flexibility exercising usually, and that is one area that I need to improve.

I hope I can make more posting more often now. In next one I want to peek into the "Be fit" program structure and describe how the first week looks like. Hopefully I can describe the first session of it as well. So, stay tuned and

Happy running,
Gert