Weeks 4 and 5 of Un-marathon Training

Decided to combine them since my parents were in town for half of week 4 and I wanted to spend time with them. Cross training takes a stupid amount of time. Also, this is officially the longest I haven't run for. In fact, I think I crossed the threshold at week 3. AGGHH!

Mon: 7-miles elliptical
Tues: 7-miles elliptical
Wed: 0.25-miles treadmill; 6.75-miles elliptical
Thurs: off
Fri: off
Sat: off
Sun: off

Mon: off
Tues: 7-miles elliptical
Wed: 7-miles elliptical
Thurs: 7-miles elliptical
Fri: 6 sets of 200yd swim / 200yd pull, 100yd cooldown
Sat: 3-mile "run"; 5 sets of 200yd swim / 200yd pull, 100yd cooldown
Sun: 6 sets of 200yd swim / 200yd pull, 100yd cooldown; 3-miles elliptical

I attempted to run on two days. Wednesday of the first week was supposed to read "3.5-miles treadmill; 3.5-miles elliptical. Step 1 hurt, and step 2, and pretty much all of the steps I took during those 0.25-miles. I adjusted the pace faster, and then slower, and nothing. Being that I was pretty much limping after 0.25-miles, I stopped and stomped my way over to the elliptical. Have you ever tried "limp running" on a treadmill? It's not that easy.

I attempted to "run" again on July 4th. Everyone else was doing 5k's or 4-milers, so I was bound and determined to do a "fun run" from my house. It was not fun. Well, it was fun to actually use my Garmin again, although it took forever to find satellites. But, pretty much every step after I found satellites killed. My left knee hurts, but worse than that, my right hip (well, really, whole right side) really freaking hurts. However, I decided to see if things would get better as the run progressed, so I didn't turn around at the end of the street. I really can't drive my right leg up all that well, and landing on my left leg hurts my knee, so I was pretty much running using only my calfs. I'm actually semi-impressed that I held up for 3-miles doing that, a testament to my former triple jumping days I guess. Anyways, it was pretty miserable and I'm not going to attempt running again until I see someone and figure out what the heck I've managed to screw up!

On a positive note, swimming is going better, and I only miss the wall on about 1/3 of my flip turns now...