Training Week 288
Highlight of the Week: The colder weather – it felt good for running!
Monday | April 20, 2015: 5 m run + 5 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 44°/43°, Time: 46:08, Pace: 9:13 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, yay clouds! boo wind
Loc: hood, Temp: 43°/44°, Time: 47:28, Pace: 9:29 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, still annoyed with the wind
Strength: medicine balls, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Tuesday | April 21, 2015: rest
Wednesday | April 22, 2015: 3 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 44°/43°, Time: 27:36, Pace: 9:11 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay
Thursday | April 23, 2015: 8 m run (incl. 5×1)
Loc: hood, Temp: 44°/43°, Time: 1:12:13, Pace: 9:01 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: physically fine, mentally defeated by the wind
Friday | April 24, 2015: teaching strength class + 5 m run (w/Adam & Dawn)
Strength: medicine balls, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 28°/27°, Time: 50:13, Pace: 10:02, Difficulty: easy, Felt: tired legs but YAY NO WIND!
Saturday | April 25, 2015: 4 m run
Loc: Nippersink FP, Temp: 41°/41°, Time: 39:18, Pace: 9:49 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: happy to run on crushed limestone
Sunday | April 26, 2015: 10 m run + 5 m bike
Loc: Grant Woods FP, Temp: 41°/48°, Time: 1:43:55, Pace: 10:23 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, excited to come back and train the hills
Bike Time: 19:15, Pace: 15.6 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: lazy
Notes:
- I am so pleased that the Monday night strength workout didn’t kill me again this week! I wonder if my body was more prepared for it this time, or, if working in the office on Tuesday helped. On Tuesdays I typically run in the am then work from home, mostly sitting all day. I wonder if walking around more in the office helped. I’ll have to see if the same thing happens this week!
- It was so nice this weekend to do both of my runs on crushed limestone trails! I’ve mostly run on paved surfaces this year, and the trails feel so good!
- I know – I am totally phoning it in with my bike. Eek! I’m looking forward to cycling more, leading up to RAGBRAI in July.
- And I am really looking forward to hill training starting the week of May 4th! Woo hoo!
Themocracy
Your running paths and trails are so pretty! I want to run there.
We have an amazing trail system here in Lake County, Illinois! Let me know if you are ever in the area and I will show you around! 🙂
Nice miles and handstand!
You had a good week! have another one!
Great run spots! I like limestone too, but the only path is about a fort five minute drive, so it’s been a long time since I ran on it. I have been savoring my cold mornings! I love it 🙂
It’s so nice to put off being a sloppy, dripping mess after each run for awhile longer! 😀