Training Week 213
Highlight of the Week: Teaching the blogger and friends strength workout at Essential Fitness on Saturday! And the conversation on my Facebook page after I posted this (below). Still laughing about it!
Monday | November 11, 2013: 3 m run (w/Dad!) + teaching strength class
Loc: Nippersink FP, Temp: 44°/44°, Time: 33:56, Pace: 11:19 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: stiff (duh)
Strength: medicine balls, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: surprisingly good
Tuesday | November 12, 2013: rest
Wednesday | November 13, 2013: rest
Thursday | November 14, 2013: 3 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 45°/43°, Time: 31:43, Pace: 10:34 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: uh, interesting. Legs still not ready.
Friday | November 15, 2013: teaching strength class
Strength: medicine balls, Difficulty: easy, Felt: fun!
Saturday | November 16, 2013: 4 m run (w/Rachel) + teaching (blogger & friends) strength class
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 46°/46°, Time: 40:13, Pace: 10:04 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: okay/pretty snotty
Strength: Body Bars and resistance bands, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great!
Sunday | November 17, 2013: 5 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 62°/64°, Time: 55:23, Pace: 11:04 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: too warm, but body felt great! Legs finally felt like “mine” again!
Notes:
- My body wanted more time than I expected to recover from the marathon. At first I was annoyed. Ha ha. But then I would remember “Oh yeah, that was a hard effort! I need to recover!” So I took it easy this week. Ran slower. Used lighter weights in strength class. Got a massage Friday. Continued to eat like I burned 4000 calories from running each day. <— really need to stop that.
- On that note, I am fairly certain I won’t race for clock time any more this year. I just want to race for a fun time, with friends and family. Anne and I are doing a 5K in a week. My dad and I are doing one on 12/7, and Gina and I are doing a 8K (our first!) on 12/15! I had a 10K in mind for a PR effort, but it’s just under two weeks away, and meh. Not feeling it. Maybe I will end up running it for fun, with Bobbi – she was thinking about it, too!
- Have you noticed a huge lack of posts in the past two weeks? That is because I usually think of my post topics on the run… and I haven’t been running much*! I was sick most of last week, and recovering from the marathon this week. I hope I get back in the groove soon.
- I taught the second Blogger + Friends strength class this Saturday at Essential Fitness! Five of the gals had attended one of my classes before (Alyssa, Amy, Anne, Erin and Maggie), and there were three new guests (Kelly, Melanie and Rachel)! And! One very special guest – Kelly brought baby Patsy and Bobbi watched her while we all worked out! We had so much fun! Well, at least I did, torturing them with body bars and resistance bands. Muha ha ha ha. It really means a lot to me that these gals take the time out of their schedule and travel to take my class! And I really enjoy preparing for it (especially the wacky playlists) and teaching it! I hope to offer a class like this every two months! And I hope people want to keep coming. Ha ha.
- For fun, here is me pretending to know how to hold baby Patsy:
*And the topics I did think to write about were about running. Meh. I don’t want everything to be about the same thing on here.
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I love your Efit classes!!!!! And lunch after!!! Can’t wait for the next one 🙂
Thank you so much! I am excited for the next one too! 🙂
Nice miles after your marathon! Impressive. I think I did a little too much this week too. My legs are tired. And yes, I did notice a lack in posts because I’ve been slacking on reading and I saw you in my feed and thought, “Whoa! I expected to see more missed posts than this!” I should follow your mention her and think of topics on the run. How do you remember stuff without writing it down, though? Sometimes I think of things and then forget…
Also, I’m running a race for fun next weekend! I haven’t done a running race since March, and I’m really excited about it!
It’s hard to take an easy week after we have been training so hard… right?! LOL. I honestly hope to get back in the groove this week. It felt so off not to be working out at my normal volume!
Oh gosh. I just think the thing over and over then write it down AS SOON as I get home! But sometimes I wish I could dictate it to an app. Okay, I could record it. But then I would be so embarrassed, listening to my voice! Ha ha!
Awesome!!!! Which race is it? Are you running with someone?
That pic of you and Patsy is pretty funny. I love how slightly terrified you look. 🙂
Ha ha ha! I was like “Is it okay if her head bends this way while she sleeps?! Won’t she wake up with a sore neck?!” Bobbi was sitting next to me and assured me that Patsy would be okay 🙂
Haha I love this and I’m glad you got a pic with Patsy! She loves her blogger aunts! 🙂
I had so much fun at your class!! Thanks so much for having me!! 🙂
I loved holding her! Even though I look scared/like I don’t know what I am doing. Thanks for letting me!
And THANKS for coming! I am happy you had fun. Did you feel okay, after? 🙂
I just liked that you were petting Patsy like a cat 😉
Saturday was so much fun, I can’t wait until your next blogger class! My arms may have recovered by then. And based on recent events, I’d say we’re definitely not racing for a clock time on Sunday. That’s cool that you and Gina are doing the Rudolph Ramble – I did that one last year and was hoping to do it again this year, but I’ll probably be in Ohio for my mom’s birthday and an early Christmas celebration.
Ha ha ha! Maggie was doing it too! 😛
I can’t wait for the next one either! Hopefully sometime in January! 🙂
I hope you feel better for the race on Sunday! Does this mean you are going to miss the CRB party that we are not really planning?
Nah, I’m assuming we’re going with a morning/early afternoon party, so I’ll stop by on my way out of town first 🙂