Damn. How do parents do this?
Sundays are generally my rest days right now. I usually take a walk in the morning, come home and have a decadent (for me) breakfast (oatmeal/protein pancakes - not necessarily calorically decadent, but they do take a bit of time to make; I usually don't fuss over breakfast. Today I also watched the finals of the Monte Carlo Masters (not much of a match, as it happened) and even took a nap (lol, all before 1 PM, believe it or not). I'm not usually much of a napper, but I slept like crap last night due to my having coffee too late in the day yesterday, so I figured, why not?
Spent the afternoon watching the Phils lose and catching up on some interwebs stuff, headphones on as usual when I'm checking stuff with audio. Around an hour ago I got a call from my folks, wondering why I hadn't called them back. (Wellllll, I never heard the phone ring, and it didn't occur to me to check for messages after I popped off the 'phones.) It was no big deal, just a dinner invite which I declined, since I already had dinner in the works, but DAMN, I felt so guilty! WTF is up with that? Oh well. Maybe I'm still a little tired and off.
I could also eat the house down, and intend to do so as soon as I finish this. I did my longest run so far yesterday, 5 miles, which isn't much, really, but I was very happy with how doable it felt, all things considered. I hadn't planned to run that far yet, but I really wanted to hit a couple of parks, and that loop allowed me to hit two. It was also interesting in that the first two miles were basically straight into the wind, which was kicking up yesterday, and the last mile was all hills, so finishing it strong made me feel pretty good. That made a bit over 13 miles total for last week, and I probably won't nudge that up too much more for the duration of NROL/W Stage 5 because the workouts are soooo damned long (hour fifteen to an hour and a half, including the cardio, and NOT including my warm-up). The Stage 6 workouts, in contrast, are probably half as long, so I figure that's the time to look at one more day of running and get the miles up to 20 or so per week, where I want to be when I start training for the half (which will be the week I end NROL/W, if all goes according to Hoyle, last week in June).
Still not sure what I'm going to do for strength training during the half prep, although I'm leaning now toward doing the regular NROL fat loss rotation workouts, as written or slightly bastardized. Not that I expect to be looking to lose fat at that point, but the rep ranges and exercises work for my purposes, too, so I'll probably do a couple of weeks of each of the workouts. And you know what's the oddest thing? I'm happy with that plan, and with the running plan (Hal Higdon's Intermediate 1/2 marathon program), and I'm two and a half months out. Usually I'm second guessing until launch date, but I'm familiar with and like the NR plans, and I'm familiar with and like Hal's plans, so there you have it.
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