Cheater!

If you have looked at Hal Higdon's training plan that I am using, you will see that after Tuesday and Thursday runs it says "+ strength". You will also notice that there is a day of cross training on the weekend. Well, I must confess, I have been cheating. I haven't done strength training at all and on the weekends, I might take Penny for a long walk or scrub my bathtub and call that cross training.

Tuesday's 3 miler made me realize that I need to stop cheating. I took me nearly 2 miles to warm up. If you figure I run Saturday morning, "cross train" on Sunday, and then rest on Monday, by Tuesday evening I am way out of it. At that point, I have essentially had 4 days of rest. So, after yesterday's run, we went into the gym and did some minimal, but at least it was something, strength training. Now I need to figure out how to trick myself into doing cross training on Sundays...