What doesn't kill us...sometimes just makes us sick.

One of my commitments in training for this marathon is to do more strength training than I did last time, which was essentially none, so this should not be hard.  As I prepared for the Spartan race in early May, I did some of the "Spartan WODs (Workouts Of the Day) from emails the race peeps send every night.  Much of the exercises focus on body weight (push ups, wall sits, leg lifts, burpees....LOTS of burpees) so you can do them anywhere, and with the exception of exercises like pull ups or sand bag carries, they can be done without access to any equipment.  In that vein I, hit Wednesday night pretty hard.

I did the following workout:

• 10 pushups
• 20 crunches
• 25 squats (I did them on the Bowflex with 100 pounds but you could do body weight)
• 20 lunges (10 each leg)
• 30 jumping jacks
• 60 second wall sit (never done this?  60 seconds is an ETERNITY!)
• 10 leg lifts

Repeat - do circuit 3 times.

I am proud to say I completed the circuit the prescribed three times.  The I felt like a week one contestant on The Biggest Loser.  I got nauseous, felt like throwing up and almost went down.  I drank some water, grabbed an ice pack and put it on the back of my neck, laid down for a few minutes and felt better.

On the plus side, I hit my target pace (8:55 - I actually ran 8:50) for my tempo run Thursday morning.  By comparison, the discomfort of the tempo run was nothing to the Biggest Loser moment of the night before, and Saturday's long run was a walk in the park.  Training week two - over and out!