Training Week 245
Highlight of the Week: Teaching the Tuesday night Efit class. We were all pushing hard, but being goofy at the same time, and it was a blast. And, not fitness related, but taking Bobbi hang gliding!
Monday | June 23, 2014: teaching strength class
Strength: body bars/medicine balls mixed mode, Difficulty: easy, Felt: meh – not digging the workout
Tuesday | June 24, 2014: 5 m run (w/Kelly) + teaching strength class
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 68°/68°, Time: 50:13, Pace: 10:03 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay/icky (so humid out!)
Strength: Leberts, One Dumbbell and Boxing, Difficulty: medium, Felt: excited – fun class!
Wednesday | June 25 2014: rest (pitching practice for Steven)
Thursday | June 26, 2014: 4.5 m run (w/Kelly) + Softball Game #6
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 59°/58°, Time: 44:27, Pace: 9:54 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: much better after bathroom stop, ha ha
Friday | June 27, 2014: teaching strength class + 5 m run (w/Bobbi)
Strength: body bars/medicine balls mixed mode, Difficulty: medium, Felt: half awake but liked the workout more than Monday!
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 58°/59°, Time: 52:22, Pace: 10:29, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | June 28, 2014: rest
Sunday | June 29, 2014: Waucondafest Challenge 10K
Loc: Wauconda, Temp: 70°/73°, Time: 1:01:30, Pace: 9:52 avg, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: gassed by the hills
Notes:
- Yay! A week at home! It was nice to get back to a “normal” routine, even if only for one week! Who else has a summer full of travel?!
- There are different “challenges” we do at Efit, and the most recent one is this 30-day summer fitness challenge. Give it a try! You just do it once a day… or more, if you are feeling bad ass!
- So happy I got to run with Kelly and Bobbi this week. It’s nice to have one-on-one time to chat with my girls. I love communicating via technology, but face time is always the best!
- I put together my marathon training “plan.” Ha. It consists of a rough guideline of what my long runs should be each week. Really, the key for me is losing some weight, not running specific paces/distances. When I lose weight, running is a lot easier/and I’m faster. We’ll see what happens!
- Bobbi LOVED hang gliding! Yay! I am so happy she got to go – the sport is very weather dependent and we’ve had some storms lately. But it was all clear for her flight!
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Great week! That hang gliding photo is awesome. Did y get to go as well?
Thanks! I didn’t go hang gliding. I went last year at the same place 🙂
I have no idea how people can run 5 and 10Ks in this weather. So congrats on that! I love reading your fun and diverse workouts. Makes my running and hiking seem boring.
Gah, I know. It’s so nutso humid out, and that makes the heat feel so much worse! I usually don’t do many races in the summer, but I needed motivation to get out there today!
Whatever! You get to hike in so many beautiful places!
OMG I’ve always wanted to go hang gliding! So jealous! I can’t imagine racing a 10K in June. I wouldn’t be brave enough to register for one, much less run it.
Go do it! It’s fun! At the place we went to, you get pulled by a ultra light aircraft in your glider, then released. I wonder what it would be like to jump off of something and go!
Ha ha. I was so focused on the hills that I barely noticed the heat. And I registered morning of 😉 Racing in the summer isn’t really my thing! I just did the 10K to get a run in 🙂
What marathons are you training for?
I am registered for Milwaukee (but might not be able to run it due to a schedule conflict). I might do a 50K in September too, but I probably won’t train much for that.
Hanggliding?!?! Wow! Is that one of your many sports?? I went skydiving once. I don’t know if I have the guts for that one!
Which marathon are you doing?
I tried it once last year. I actually liked sky diving better 🙂 But I will probably try it again someday!
I am registered for Milwaukee. I am not sure if I can run it, due to a scheduling conflict, but I plan on “training” for it 🙂
OOOOOOOOOOOOO I just love that she got to do this!!!! Are you doing Naperville this year?
Me too!
I am signed up for Milwaukee. 🙂
Eee! Hang gliding seems so scary to me. And I hear you on the weight. I was a lot faster when I was 30 pounds lighter!