Training Week 291
Highlight of the Week: Working out with my mom on Saturday and my dad on Sunday!
Monday | May 11, 2015: 6 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 64°/67°, Time: 59:02, Pace: 9:50 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: hot/had heavy legs
Strength: dumbbell/step mixed mode w/resistance bands, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Tuesday | May 12, 2015: 5 m run (incl. 10 hill repeats) + 7 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 52°/51°, Time: 49:05, Pace: 9:49 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good/strong
Loc: Nippersink FP, Temp: 53°/54°, Time: 1:08:22, Pace: 9:46 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: warmed up after 4 miles
Wednesday | May 13, 2015: rest
Thursday | May 14, 2015: 3 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 54°/54°, Time: 28:55, Pace: 9:38 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: angry then better
Friday | May 15, 2015: teaching strength class + 13 m run
Strength: dumbbell/box mixed mode w/resistance bands, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Around Round Lake, Temp: 65°/66°, Time: 2:16:02, Pace: 10:28, Difficulty: easy, Felt: sweaty and hot, but good!
Saturday | May 16, 2015: 6 m run (incl. 4×800) w/Mom (walking)
Loc: hood, Temp: 59°/58°, Time: 57:30, Pace: 9:35 avg, Difficulty: hard, Felt: hot, tight legs
Sunday | May 17, 2015: 22.6 m ride (w/Dad and Pete)
Loc: Prairie Trail, Temp: 61°/66°, Time: 1:53:35, Pace: 11.9 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Notes:
- I’ve added a weekly double run workout to my schedule to get ready for The Longest Day Relay on June 21. This will be my second year joining Team Running to Remember to raise raise awareness and funds for the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. This year, the team is doing a point-to-point relay from Monroe, WI to Madison, WI. I am doing this event in honor of my paternal grandfather, who had dementia. Please visit my fundraising page if you’d like to donate, and let me know if it’s in memory or honor of anyone so I can run with their name on June 21.
- Hill repeats are wearing my legs out! I am not sure why I find this surprising. Ha ha.
- Why the dirty hand in the photo collage? Hee hee, I was running on the trail and saw a kid with a stuck bike chain and tried to help him. No can do. It was twisted around the gears. They seemed to appreciate my help – they were super polite kids!
- We’ve gotten some early glimpses of summer humidity this week. Wooza! It was so bad that when I finished my repeats on Saturday I had sweat dripping off my elbows. Ewww! Hopefully running in it now can make it easier this summer…. right, right?!
- My mom walked at the park on Saturday while I did my repeats. We both appreciated having each other there for “company”! I definitely felt like running faster when I was going by her… it’s probably apparent in the Garmin data, ha.
- It was so nice to cycle outside this week with my dad and Pete (from Efit)! My bike is riding really smoothly since getting tuned up, and it was so much more enjoyable to be outside (especially with other people!) than to be on the trainer in the house!
Themocracy
Elbow dripping is commonplace for me. Sadly, we did not have a Spring. The overnight lows are in the 70s. Ugh. I’m trying my best to GET OVER IT. I wish I had ridden my bike. Looks fun.
Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Biking weather for sure!
Good for you for doing the Alzheimers relay again this year – I’m going to sign up for my grandfather again!
Thank you so much!!!
Great week 🙂 Isn’t biking nice? Love the breeze 🙂
Good for you knocking out hill repeats in the heat. I am challenged enough on flat ground lol, run buddy and I looked for the flattest route we could Sunday.
The humidity this past week was brutal. Not only did I have sweat running down my elbows, but my visor was so drenched that the rim was dripping. So gross. Why can’t we just have nice, Spring weather for a little while? Winter to Summer and back again several times this past month 😉
What a solid week of workouts! I love the summaries – one of these days, maybe I’ll try to do that…
And so exciting that you rode outside. I definitely love riding outside more than the trainer (torture!). Can’t wait to hear what you have planned cycling-wise!
I wish I had more planned for cycling! Two days of RAGRBRAI in July is it so far! I’d love to do some more organized rides. 🙂