Week 7 of Un-Marathon Training

Mon: 7-miles elliptical
Tues: 1-mile treadmill; 6-miles elliptical
Wed: off
Thurs: 7-miles elliptical
Fri: 7-miles elliptical
Sat: 2000yd swim (5 sets of 200yd swim / 200yd pull w/ 50yd cooldown)
Sun: 2500yd swim (6 sets of 200yd swim / 200yd pull w/ 100yd cooldown); 2-miles elliptical/stairmaster hybrid (aka I don't know what to call it, but it was on an end so I didn't have to deal with people... wow I'm getting bitter!)

I was super proud of myself for managing 1-mile at an 8min pace, but it was everything I could do to keep running and not scream. It hurt.

I went to the chiropractor again on Saturday. What she did last time seemed to help, and I hadn't done any more damage, but I am still super tight. So, headed in the right direction, which is better than I was 2 weeks ago.

The weekend workouts were lacking. I found out 10 days ago that we needed to write a paper by today (the deadline was extended to Thursday because we got new data). And, this paper is "for school" (even though I graduated 2 years ago) and not "for work", which means I need to write it after work. Also, by write a paper, I mean do the analysis, which resulted in me pulling out my thesis for the second time in a matter of weeks. That's never a good idea. I just kind of want to black the last two years of grad school out. Ugh. And this was the stuff I spent the majority of that last two years doing. Wicked Ugh!

Also, I haven't been sleeping well owing to being more than a little stressed out about this paper. I have tried to get my mind off of it by watching TV before I go to bed (the night I tried to just close my laptop and go to sleep resulted in a midnight-1PM bout of what if I try this...). But, I really can't focus on anything that requires even the slightest bit of thought, which includes reruns of The West Wing, which is pretty pathetic. So, we've been watching reruns of RuPaul's Drag Race... Star Search meets Survivor with drag queens... reality TV doesn't get much better!