And the training continues

Today I realized that its already Thursday and I have not yet taken a day off.  I am currently not in school and I did not work today, so I was considerably bored. Zach was going to the gym anyway so I decided not to take the day off, and to just do a 30 min bike and lifted my legs for only 15 min. I was feeling good, so I figured that it wouldn't hurt. Tomorrow I am excited because I am going to be running my long run for the week. My back was still bothering me today, I am not sure what is going on, its just a soreness that won't seem to go away. I think that if it continues through the weekend I may sneak into the Physical Therapy department and beginning doing some treatments on myself (the benefits of being a PT student). I am still trying to do everything that I can to avoid this type of injury and I don't feel like I am doing anything differently like I normally do. So far I would say the training is going well, I am feeling good despite my back, I am excited to increase my mileage next week. Once I get back to school I will feel more on schedule, since I have been traveling and not going to school, I have had the luxury of deciding day by day what I want to do with my training.

On another note, Zach and I decided to join Weight Watchers again. We did last year and had good success with it. I like weight watchers because its a good balance of just eating right and not depriving yourself. Last year when Zach and I joined we were not living together. So I feel like this year since we are living together, we can truly do the plan together which will be really nice. I have to be careful with this because, as I increase my energy demands for running, I will have to eat more in order to keep my body fueled. This is only my second week of training so its really not an issue now, but in my last few weeks of training I will need to eat more than Weight Watchers technically allows me too because I have higher demands for my body.