Training Week 165
Highlight of the Week: All the time I got to spend with my favorite running friends this week! I had four one-on-one runs, and one huge group run! And one of those runs was to pace my NYC bestie at a 5K today!
Monday | December 10, 2012: 6 m run (w/Bobbi)
Loc: Millennium Trail, Time: 58:57, Pace: 9:50 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good to push it on the hills
Tuesday | December 11, 2012: 5 m run (w/Erin)
Loc: Chicago Lakefront Trail, Temp: 34°/34°, Time: 46:01, Pace: 9:12 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: happy
Wednesday | December 12, 2012: 3.2 m run + strength class
Loc: neighborhood, Temp: 45°/43°, Time: 33:16, Pace: 10:24 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: cold
Strength: dumbbells & boxing, Difficulty: medium, Felt: high heart rate during boxing (small class – did both rounds)
Thursday | December 13, 2012: 4 m run (w/Anne)
Loc: Bear Lakes, Vernon Hills, Temp: 46°/45°, Time: 49:13, Pace: 12:19 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good!
Friday | December 14, 2012: strength + 4 m run
Strength: bars & kettlebells, Difficulty: medium, Felt: strong
Loc: neighborhood, Temp: 41°/37, Time: 42:48, Pace: 10:42, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | December 15, 2012: 3.1 m run (w/Chicago Running Bloggers)
Loc: UIC Campus, Temp: 45°/45°, Time: 36:21, Pace: 11:44 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Sunday | December 16, 2012: Hot Chocolate 5K (w/Gina)
Loc: Roosevelt Island, NYC, Temp: 45°/45°, Time: 32:36, Pace: 10:23 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great!
Streaking Notes:
- Being able to do just a short 3.1 miler every day makes it a lot easier to fit running in, than my previous mindset of “must always run at least 5!” However, I am really craving a long run!
- I think I will end up running more overall this month than I would have, had I not been streaking.
- Running every day is getting to be a bit annoying… because I want to be lazy. I feel great though.
Overall Notes:
- My Friday strength workout was interesting! We worked with bars and kettleballs – doing one move with one, then the move again with the other. Very fun way to mix it up!
- I ordered new shoes and they arrived on Thursday. I think I will start running in them this week. Funny thing – I noticed my shoes with more mileage were worn out less than the ones in this post.
Themocracy
Maybe you should do 3.1 six days and on the 7th day do a longer run? How long are you talking?
I am thinking 12-15! But wondering when I could get that distance in this month, except for the one weekend I have no plans yet 😉
Winter hasn’t even started, but it needs to end just so we can get some daylight back in our runs! It was really fun to run with you twice this week though 🙂
I read about a streak that’s just 1 mile a day from Thanksgiving until New Year’s, and I thought about it because just having to do a mile sounded really nice compared to 3 or 5, so I definitely get why doing 3.1 seems easier.
Winter Solstice is this week! Hurrah! Let’s get this shortest day of the year over with 😉 I am happy we got to run together 2x too! 🙂
I was originally just going to do 1 a day, then saw this 5K a day challenge. I guess since I would have to take a shower for either distance, I might as well do the 5K? LOL.