Training Week 297
Highlight of the Week: Getting a lot of runs in with Kelly before she moves / teaching fitness boxing!
Monday | June 22, 2015: teaching strength class
Strength: Mixed Mode: Body Bars & One Dumbbell, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Tuesday | June 23, 2015: 5 m run (w/Kelly)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 68°/65°, Time: 48:25, Pace: 9:41 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Wednesday | June 24, 2015: 7 m run (w/Kelly) + swim
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 59°/56°, Time: 1:07:16, Pace: 9:34 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Grayslake Pool, 500m freestyle 11:56, 500m breaststroke 14:20, 250m backstroke 6:57
Thursday | June 25, 2015: rest (sick)
Friday | June 26, 2015: teaching strength class + 4 m run (w/Kelly)
Strength: Mixed Mode Body Bars & One Dumbbell, Difficulty: easy (mostly observed), Felt: okay
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 60°/63°, Time: 41:43, Pace: 10:26, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: ok, challenging on the lungs
Saturday | June 27, 2015: 4 m run (incl. 8×1:00)
Loc: hood, Temp: 66°/68°, Time: 39:34, Pace: 9:53 avg, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: okay, hard to breathe
Sunday | June 28, 2015: 7.15 m ride + teaching fitness boxing + 7.65 ride
Loc: home to Efit, Temp: 58°/65°, Time: 33:56, Pace: 12.6 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: calm
Strength: boxing and body weight workout (BOSU), Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, super sweaty, raspy voice
Loc: Efit to home, Temp: 70°/70°, Time: 34:56, Pace: 13.1 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: exhilarated
Notes:
- This was Kelly’s last full week here, so we tried to run together as much as possible! Rain and me getting sick messed with our plans a bit, but we did the best we could, and I am happy for that!
- Yeah… I got some nasty chest cold… thing. My colds usually run a very typical course – sore throat, painful unproductive cough, draining face, finishing with productive cough (which sometimes lasts weeks). This went straight from sore throat to difficulty breathing with a painful cough unproductive/productive combo. Makes me wonder if it’s something more serious with my lungs. I am going to visit the doctor this week if my breathing doesn’t get under control!
- It probably didn’t help that as I was getting sick, I decided to hit up the pool for some laps, for funsies. I hope I can go back soon, when I am feeling better. I’d love to pay a coach for some pointers in the water! I am a confident swimmer, but I bet my form is all over the place, ha ha.
- I rode to and from my Sunday class at Efit. It’s a short ride, but pretty exhilarating because some of it is with traffic, and while I am brave enough to go out in it, I prefer riding in traffic in a group (or solo, on a trail). I’m grateful to have one of those sunglasses mirrors for my bike, so I can see behind me – even if it makes me look like a dork!
Themocracy
Hope you start feeling better soon! My colds always warn me they’re on the way too. I’ll have a sore throat usually for at least a day before I feel anything else.
I feel like having a sore throat is the worst, too! Maybe even worse than a dry cough. Ouch!
Oh no, sorry you’re sick! 🙁 Getting colds in the summer sucks. I hope it goes away soon!
Blech those lingering chest things are no fun. Hope it all clears soon. Since tri has been my focus all year, I’m obsessed with all things swim stroke. I still need so much work. Sigh.
Hope you feel better soon 🙁
My colds have always been bad. Recovery seems to take the longest.
I hope your breathing starts feeling better!
Also, I think it’s awesome that you’re a confident swimmer. I don’t hear that often from people who didn’t grow up doing swim team or something!
Glad you still had had fun even though you weren’t feeling great. You always do a great job mixing it up each week. I am chicken of traffic, I stay in quiet neighborhoods or on a trail.