Training Week 273
Highlight of the Week: Teaching a fun new boxing class at Efit!
Monday | January 5, 2015: 5 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 7°/6°, Time: 52:59, Pace: 10:36 avg, Difficulty: medium (footing), Felt: good, but so slick out!
Strength: sand bags, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good!
Tuesday | January 6, 2015: rest
Wednesday | January 7, 2015: 10.5 m run (first 4.75 w/Kelly)/10 min strength + Body Beast Cardio* (w/Steven)
*counting as a strength workout
Loc: Libertyville Sports Complex, Time: 1:40:01, Pace: 9:31 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Thursday | January 8, 2015: 4.2 m run incl. 4x”400″ (w/Kelly) + 12 m bike
Loc: Libertyville Sports Complex, Time: 40:56, Pace: 9:41 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good (sore from Monday)
Bike Time: 46:39, Pace: 15.4 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good (helped with sore legs)
Friday | January 9, 2015: teaching strength class + 8 m run (first 4 w/Dawn)
Strength: sand bags, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Libertyville Sports Complex, Time: 1:22:43, Pace: 10:21, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | January 10, 2015: teaching fitness boxing + 3.2 m run
Strength: boxing and body weight workout, Difficulty: easy, Felt: hyped up – lost my voice! Ha ha
Loc: hood, Temp: 17°/17°, Time: 32:40, Pace: 10:13 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good, still slick out
Sunday | January 11, 2015: 12 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 25°/32°, Time: 2:09:56, Pace: 10:50 avg, Difficulty: medium (headache), Felt: good, warm
Notes:
- Ahh, winter running! I had my first real taste of it this Monday – slipping and sliding all over snow covered ice! I gotta work the snow running muscles back up! That, paired with the strength workout I taught Monday night (lots of side lunges) left my hip adductors and glutes quite sore for a few days. Who else was slipping and sliding all over outside this week?
- With our streets being a dangerous mess most of the week, and my desire to run longer than 5 miles (about what I am ready for in the snow right now) and do some speedwork, I did a few indoor track runs. And actually enjoyed it! Weird! I’ll keep doing the speed workouts indoors when the roads are crummy.
- As of Thursday am, the 8th, I had already run more miles in this January, than January of last year. I know I’ve mentioned in a few times, but I am just so grateful not to be starting this year off sick, like I did last year! Okay. I better stop talking about it now so I don’t jinx it!
- I kind of lied about not bombarding you guys with 2015 stats that only I care about… and did add a yearly cumulative stats bar at the bottom of my collage for fun. Fun for me. Feel free to scroll on by it! Ha ha.
- I intended to get out on my snowshoes on Sunday but didn’t plan my day out well enough to do it in the daylight. Darn. I hope I can early next week… I have a snow shoe race two weeks from today!
Themocracy
A snow shoe race? That sounds really cool!
It is! This will be my third time doing it. I still think it’s the hardest race I ever do!
I ran on the treadmill this week for the first time in about a year. It was 15 degrees with negative whatever windchill. I was lucky the temps moderated after a couple of day. A snow shoe race sounds fun!
An indoor track sounds better than slipping and wiping out! The snow looks so pretty, but I would get tired of it. A snow shoe race sounds pretty fun, I assume snow shoes will have some traction lol
A good training week for you, hanging in the feel good category 🙂
I love snowshoeing! I wish we would get enough snow to do it, but we just get cold 🙁