After completing my 20 miler and the 13 miler last week, taper time was about to start. So of course I decided to complicate things by getting elective surgery during the week.
Day 113 (October 19): 5.2 miles on the treadmill. Nothing much to say about this, I really should post better workout comments :-) I was just trying to get some mileage in because I know that surgery would probably derail my running.
Day 114 (October 20): Holy crap thinking about LASIK was nerve wracking. I reread all of the documentation like a million times, so I only managed to get 3.2 miles done before surgery. I was so nervous for the surgery and they didn't offer me a Valium. I also didn't get to talk to the surgeon before being in the surgery room. That really wasn't good for me. The pain afterwards was out of this world and I also felt a bit of pain during the procedure itself. When I go to the dentist it always takes extra shots to get me numb. Maybe I don't react well to those meds? I'm pretty sure that I moved my right eye during the procedure and it was just.. ugh. Anyway...
After the surgery I went home and slept and just kinda was in tons of pain and didn't want to open my eyes. This was to be expected.
Day 115 (October 21): I had my followup appointment for LASIK. My eyes still hurt and are very dry and I look like a battered woman with all of the bruising. I have to tutor G and Z after the appointment too, so it was a long day. I took it as a rest day from running even though the doctor said I could run. There was just too much eye pain. As I feared my right eye is not so good. It is only 20/50 at the followup appointment and I'll have to see if it improves. Otherwise I'll be going under the LASER again.
Day 116 (October 22): I ran 6.1 miles on my usual route down to Williamsburg. It was warm out! It was my first post LASIK run. I wore both sunglasses and visor, the sun bothered me a tiny bit. I brought drops and stopped around mile 4 to use them. On the way back I got stuck on Pulaski Bridge because the draw bridge was up. Overall not a bad run, just a bit hot and I was worried about sweat getting into my eyes.
Day 117 (October 23): Friday was a rest day. It was too windy for me to run outside comfortably because my eyes were still really pissed off from the LASIK. I could have run on the TM but it was sunny and I didn't want to wear sunglasses on the treadmill.
Day 118 (October 24): I did my last longish run of training. It was the "Last 10 run" with Nike. It was a clusterfuck at the start because they'd budgeted for 300 runners but something like 700 runners showed up. I wasn't meeting anyone specific at this run. They had bag check which was nice so that I could have a change of clothes and wear warm clothes to the start. It was cool which I really liked. Miles 5 and 6 were slow because I was running without water and really started to feel it at that point. Luckily there was a water stop near the end of mile 6 so then I could speed up. I talked to two really nice girls, Lauren and Erika who are also running the marathon. I was proud of my speed overall and felt really good during the run. I really am a much better cool weather runner. I did drops at miles 4 and 8. I am hopeful that by the marathon my eyes will have healed enough to not need to do drops too many times.
At the finish I bumped into some Runners United folks and it was nice to say hi to them.
Day 119 (October 25): I did 4.1 miles on the treadmill next to hubby. He stopped after 2 miles, but I was glad that he ran. There are lots of thoughts floating through my head related to the marathon.
Week 17 Summary:
Miles: 28.7
Pace: 11:29 min/mile
Stayed on Plan: Close enough
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