Training Week 298
Highlight of the Week: My last run with Kelly and cycling with my dad to (and from) a 5K!
Monday | June 29, 2015: teaching strength class
Strength: Mixed Mode: Body Bars & One Dumbbell, Difficulty: medium, Felt: out of breath talking and working out
Tuesday | June 30, 2015: 8 m run (w/Kelly)
Loc: Millennium Trail to Nippersink FP, Temp: 64°/69°, Time: 1:19:06, Pace: 9:53 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: better!
Wednesday | July 1, 2015: 4 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 54°/54°, Time: 35:37, Pace: 8:53 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: strong
Thursday | July 2, 2015: 15 m run
Loc: Around Round Lake, Temp: 62°/61°, Time: 2:33:36, Pace: 10:14 avg, Difficulty: easy to medium, Felt: pretty good!
Friday | July 3, 2015: teaching strength class + 5 m run (w/Adam)
Strength: Mixed Mode: Body Bars & One Dumbbell, Difficulty: hard, Felt: shredded
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 51°/55°, Time: 48:36, Pace: 9:43, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: tired
Saturday | July 4, 2015: 12.5 m ride (w/Dad) + Firecracker 5K + 12.2 m ride (w/Dad)
Loc: Guttenberg to Garnavillo, Temp: 57°/59°, Time: 59:29, Pace: 12.6 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Garnavillo, Temp: 59°/61°, Time: 24:03, Pace: 7:46 avg, Difficulty: hard then easier, Felt: good
Loc: Garnavillo to Guttenberg, Temp: 61°/69°, Time: 51:08, Pace: 14.3 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Sunday | July 5, 2015: 5 m run (w/Dad on bike)
Loc: Guttenberg, Temp: 65°/68°, Time: 52:38, Pace: 10:31 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: like I was going so much faster
Notes:
- Since I was sick last week and most of this week, I was totally expecting my runs to feel horrible. But besides a few bouts of coughing, I actually felt really energetic. I don’t know if it was the two days off running (Sunday and Monday), the amazingly cool temps on Wednesday and Thursday, or the Mucinex in my system, but I’ll take it!
- However, I felt totally zapped teaching strength class this week. My lungs hurt and it’s really hard to count or speak in class, while doing anything (I even cut back how much of the workout I am doing). I hope this week is better.
- I saw so much wildlife on my runs this week! A vulture eating parts of a carcass, a deer with a bird resting on its butt, donkeys, horses, and countless birds and bunnies. And that was all around my house in Illinois!
- Kelly and I had a fabulous last run together. I’m really going to miss starting out my days with a run with her. We’ll have to be virtual training partners now.
- I got to workout with my dad this weekend when I was in Iowa for Independence Day! I brought my bike so we could ride to the next town over to do their 5K… which involved going up a giant hill to get out of town! Ha! It was a lot of fun and made me even more stoked for RAGBRAI! More on that when I get the race report up!
- June recap time! If you’ve been reading my blog for a few years you know I cut back on running in the beginning of the summer, and this year is no different! In June, I ran 136.9 miles, and cycled 92.8 (two outdoor rides, three indoor… sigh). I taught nine strength classes and went swimming once! I am excited to see that biking number DOUBLE in July!!! And I need to get my running back up a bit if I want to make my 2000 miles for the year goal. I am on track and don’t want to fall behind!
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That’s cool that you saw so much wildlife this week 🙂 Though I would probably have been freaked out by the vulture eating a carcass!
What was really freaky about it is that only a few bones of the deer were left. Where was the rest of it?! 😮 Eek!
That sucks that you’ve been sick. I’ve always thought being sick in the summer was so much worse than in the winter.
Yeah, I think it feels worse to have a cold when it’s hot outside.
It’s good you could run and feel good while sick! That’s a big mileage goal for the year but you can pull it off for sure 🙂
Love your jerseys!Hubby and biked on the 4th an my hands got so sweaty I couldn’t change gears, I just had to deal with being in 7th gear no matter what lol
LOL! Did you have bike gloves on?! It must have been really warm for your ride!
It was super humid lol I lost my bike gloves awhile ago, I need a new pair!
Sure hope you feel better soon! Summer colds are the worst!