This new 5k training schedule collides with my weightlifting schedule: Tuesdays are intervals/tempo runs. Today I did 4x400m intervals, which (including warmup and cooldown) took nearly 30 minutes. After all that, I just did the dumbbell lifts and went to stretch. Thursdays are open so I can manage a full lifting workout that day, but I’m just going to have to accept that for the next two months I’ll have to slack a bit on my lifting, unless I want to spend over an hour in the gym on Tuesdays.
The intervals themselves went okay– I ran them at 6-6.5 mph, which is quite fast for me. Naturally my shoe sensor said I was running slower. Oh well– I know how fast I was going (roughly, anyway) and that’s good enough for me.
The first week of this training is supposed to have me running about 13.5 miles. That’s… quite a jump, when I’ve been averaging 6-9 miles a week. The 5 mile long run on the weekend is supposed to be an easy, fun run so I might cut it back a bit this week or even just go for a walk. It’s better to start slow and stay healthy than to do too much too fast and wind up with an injury…
Balancing running and weightlifting is consistently an issue for me. I’ll do legs for the first time in a few weeks and then I can’t run for two days because the DOMS is so bad, so I don’t do legs for a few weeks, which means that when I do them again the DOMS is a problem, and so on and so forth. Like you I had to accept that one thing was going to take precedence over the other. It’s a bummer though.
Yes, that’s totally it! I can’t do them enough to keep soreness at bay, because then I have to cut back on running. It’s very frustrating! Oh well, just these 2 months and then I can switch focus again :)