Training Week 179
Highlight of the Week: Feeling creative and developing (with my trainer) a kick@$$ kettlebell + step workout for my class tomorrow night! Good thing I practiced it today – I’ll have to cut the blisters at the end of my toes off, so I am able to do the burpees at the end of the workout!
Okay, and a tie highlight would be all my fun runs with friends and being a crazy lady and trying to make new ones.
Monday | March 18, 2013: 8 m run (4 + 4 w/Mica) + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 28°/29°, Time: 42:11, Pace: 10:03 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: not awake
Loc: hood, Temp: 28°/28°, Time: 37:24, Pace: 9:21 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: awake
Strength: dumbbells and core, Difficulty: easy, Felt: awesome-o
Tuesday | March 19, 2013: 12 m run (5 + 7 w/Alyssa)
Loc: Millennium Trail to Nippersink FP, Temp: 31°, Time: 54:02, Pace: 10:34 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: meh
Loc: Nippersink FP to Millennium Trail (and back), Temp: 30°, Time: 1:06:12, Pace: 9:27 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Wednesday | March 20, 2013: strength class
Strength: Cardio kettlebell circuit, Difficulty: um… medium, until I thought I broke my head, Felt: okay
Thursday | March 21, 2013: rest
Friday | March 22, 2013: 13 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 18°/16°, Time: 2:04:48, Pace: 9:36, Difficulty: easy, Felt: painful at first (headache)
Saturday | March 23, 2013: 11 m run
Loc: Around Round Lake, Temp: 22°/27°, Time: 1:51:15, Pace: 10:07 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Sunday | March 24, 2013: 16 m run (w/Bobbi) + 1/3 Monday night strength practice
Loc: Independence Grove, Temp: 32°/34°, Time: 3:03:46, Pace: 11:29 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: like a “real” trail run!
Strength: Kettlebell + step, Difficulty: medium, Felt: schweaty
Notes:
- This was my first 60 mile week this year! Yes, first. I hope this happens again this year. It only happened once last year!
- And as a reminder… here is why I am running so much, and from last year, why I run long.
- Do you guys keep running in to that statistic that says “even an hour or two of exercise does not offset the damage of sitting down the rest of your waking hours [for example, at a desk in an office]”? I just read an article about that in the newest Running Times. I sense a blog post coming up. This topic kind of… gets to me. Not quite sure why.
- I really related to Jax House’s post about having a city (Dublin!) all to herself while running. I think that is why I sometimes prefer the quiet am runs, when no one is up yet! I like having my hood to myself. Of course, it’s even cooler in a “new to you” city!
Themocracy
I can understand why that topic gets to you. I don’t know if it’s the same reason it gets to me, but the reality is I have a job that requires me to sit on my butt for 8 (to 14) hours a day. This leaves me with not a lot of time for exercise, unless I want to give up everything else in my life (no thanks)
It’s like, I’m doing the best I can, let me be!
I would love to quit my job and become a full time yoga instructor, but for now that is not reality for my life. Sitting on my butt all day is how I get insurance and pay my bills.
YES! Thank you! That is it! Like, what am I supposed to do? Stand while I work?! Sigh. I tried to stand more this weekend as I worked on Fake Meats things around the house, but the weekends are NOT the issue 😉
Right!! I know the standing desks are becoming popular but since I’m one of the few lucky people on my floor to even have a CUBE (my boss works in a tiny conference room and two of my co-workers have hotelling space) I strongly doubt they are going to pony up to give me a standing desk.
Ha, this is going to sound dumb, but I just realized that you take a picture of EVERY run or workout you do for your weekly training recap. A-duh!! Clearly, I have not been a closer reader!
A professor in my department jerry-rigged a standing desk by placing a shelf over a chair with arms that is standing on top of his regular (sitting) desk. He stands up to work. He said it’s because sitting is killing us. I run into that statistic all the time, and I don’t know if I believe it. I mean, sure, sitting all the time is probably not great, but it seems like one of those oversimplified statements that the media loooove to use.
Another example? “Sugar is toxic. It causes [all number of physical maladies and chronic illnesses].” I was just complaining to Harrison this morning that I don’t know what to believe and get really stressed out when I’m bombarded with dire warnings against sitting and eating any processed sugar.
So now, I’m going to go sit and eat some sugar.
Okay, Mica made me laugh! Since I am working on giving up refined sugar, does that mean I can sit more? LOL.
I think that is EXACTLY what it means!
Hey! I need to hear more about TRX 🙂
Ha ha ha! Not dumb! 😉 I just started doing that last spring instead of writing out a long recap of each workout, because holy crap – that’s boring for everyone but me 🙂
LOL! I love your view on it all. It does seem to be one of those statistics that everyone is panicking about now, which is probably why I am noticing it so much!
I am not worried about dying young due to sitting too much… but I do know I feel better when I don’t sit for 9+ hours straight 🙂
Hmm, I need to take my neighborhood in the morning. As eager as I am to explore a new city in the morning, the past few years I have been irrationally scared to head out in my our neighborhood on a dark morning. Your comment made me realize, I need to just get out there and enjoy it!
One of the reasons that I really enjoy my job is that I’m always moving around. I know that it sounds kind of weird, but I do like the physical pace of teaching. I also can’t imagine teaching while sitting down and I do worry about my teaching if I were ever limited to a chair.
I’m super impressed and envious of your 60 mile week – if I could, I would, so good for you!
That doesn’t sound weird at all! That sounds awesome! What a great “perk” 😉
Thanks 😀
wow! loads of running miles for you this week! I think i got to 14 this week with 3 workouts? Impressive lady!
I hate reading news. It seems everything contradicts. One study says, 3o min of exercise a day will prolong your life, then the one you mentioned which says youre basically screwed no matter what you do. Sugar is bad (but id venture to say aspartame/stevia/saccharin are even worse) Plus, i think many of these studies are biased to whomever funded them…
Ha! That is so true! I think HHS is the govt agency that says we just need 150 mins of low intensity exercise a week… is that if we NEVER SIT DOWN?! Do I need to sleep standing up now?!
Yes, I keep coming across those stats that sitting for 8 straight hours is bad for you. Vera even told me this is bad for my running, all that compressing of joints is bad. She told me I should stand at my desk for at least two hours/day. So I set up my desk like this for the last two hours of each day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/notmargaret/8587162195.
You could just cut the burpees too. Just saying 🙂
I think I’m the opposite about having a city to myself while running. I like seeing other runners, or even walkers, when I’m out. When I visit my parents and run around their neighborhood, I’m the ONLY one running – like people think my car broke down, or someone is chasing me (okay, I just assume that, but it is not an active place!). My mom and I used to walk together when I still lived there, and people would periodically tell her they had seen her out walking, and that made them think maybe they should go for walks too. Like it hadn’t occurred to them before!
That is very interesting that people in her hood are so inactive. What do you think that is about?!
Awesome 60 mile week! I hit 60 miles once last year and it felt pretty awesome. I love my AM runs as well because I am the only one out and its so quiet. But sometimes I scare myself when I see shadows. I think the best morning running is from April to August.
60 miles! That’s pretty amazing!! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on that topic. That just makes no sense. I’d have to see proof that it does me no good to exercise for 2 hours, if I’m just going to sit down the rest of the day. That is WAY better than not exercising at all! I just don’t know where people come up with their theory’s.
One of the things I miss about my old job was that I very rarely spent more than 30 minutes at a time at my desk. I was always up helping people, finding files, or delivering files. I could easily get in the 10,000 steps we’re supposed to take just in a day of work. Now, though, I have basically no reason to leave my desk! It makes me sad. But what am I supposed to do?
Ugh! I don’t know! And your office is on the smaller side too, so you can’t even walk your floor or anything. I guess get up and stretch every hour?! 🙂 We could walk today after we eat 🙂