These past couple of weeks have been kind of dead in terms of training. I had a pretty terrible time with what I think were shin splits or the beginnings of terrible shin splints. In addition my left knee was pretty sore. I tried to ride my bike more to get my aerobic training in, which is actually really great for cross training in my opinion. My knees and whatever do not hurt when I ride my bike and I'm training other leg muscles while I'm doing it so that my overall running is more balanced.
However, in the past week, I've been pretty terrible with keeping up with my training schedule. My Ph.D. qualifying exam was this past Wednesday so I kind of skimped on training to prepare for that. The skimping was justified since I have not passed and am now an official doctoral candidate!!! (FINALLY!) This means I am in the home stretch (kinda)! The next step to my program is to finish my research project(s), write up my dissertation, and defend. I'm aiming to be done next December although any graduation deadline is always +6months according to my advisor... :(
I started up running on Thursday after my exam. I did 2 miles and today I ran about 3.6 miles. Unfortunately, with the big pause in training, my Nike + iPod touch is being wonky. It was out of power on Thursday and today it didn't record my distance. Maybe my sensor is dead. I might have to get another one, but they're not that expensive. My knees so far feel good as does my shins. Let's hope this keeps up.
I'm your advisor now? Score.
ReplyDeleteI thought Sergey said it? I dunno...maybe I'm confused and had too much scotch.
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