Training Week 301
Highlight of the Week: Spending so much time exercising with family members!
Monday | July 20, 2015: 4 m run (inlc. 4×400) + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 77°/77°, Time: 37:29, Pace: 9:23 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: beat, itchy
Strength: AireX pads & medicine balls, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Tuesday | July 21, 2015: rest
Wednesday | July 22, 2015: RAGBRAI Day 4 (61.7 m w/Dad) + 6.5 m run
Loc: Eldora to Cedar Falls, Temp: 59/78°, Time: 5:08:41, Pace: 12.0 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good (just numb toes/tight shoulders)
Loc: Waterloo, Temp: 78°/79°, Time: 1:01:36, Pace: 9:28 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: shockingly good
Thursday | July 23, 2015: RAGBRAI Day 5 (76 miles w/Dad, Julie and Will)
Loc: Cedar Falls to Hiawatha, Temp: 60°/80°, Time: 6:25:07, Pace: 11.8 mph avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: really good
Friday | July 24, 2015: 11 m run (4.6 m w/Dad)
Loc: W’loo to Evansdale, Temp: 68°/68°, Time: 1:52:12, Pace: 10:12, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, steady!
Saturday | July 25, 2015: 5 m run
Loc: Waterloo, Temp: 70°/71°, Time: 49:52, Pace: 9:58 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, a little slow to wake up
Sunday | July 26, 2015: 16 m run (w/Dad on bike)
Loc: Cedar Falls Trails, Temp: 71°/73°, Time: 2:49:58, Pace: 10:37 avg, Difficulty: medium to easy, Felt: good
Notes:
- RAGBRAI was a lot of fun (and different than last year)! I’m looking forward to spending a few days processing it all and reviewing the photos my GoPro took and typing up some ride recaps. It was fun to spend a day riding with my dad, then to spend the next day riding with him, and my brother-in-law, Will, and his sister, Julie, and seeing how they reacted to their first time doing a day of RAGBRAI!
- I spent Tuesday evening through Sunday afternoon in the town I grew up in in Iowa. I stayed in a part of town I haven’t before and got to run some new-to-me routes and also got to run with my Dad (while he biked)! I was lucky enough to have two overcast/somewhat rainy runs on Friday and Sunday that felt AMAZING! The others were hot and humid!!! Summer weather is definitely here! It doesn’t feel as much like death this year to me though, I think, because I’ve been doing lunch runs to try to get used to it.
- I’m really surprised I got my goal 40 running miles in for the week, with all that cycling. When I was leaving town today my dad said he wished we lived in the same town so we could workout together (awww) because he knew I would get his butt moving. Well, he definitely is the one who got me moving on my long run on Sunday, so it goes both ways! He can pretty much count on me expecting him to join me for a long run when we’re together, and I count on him to ask about it and make sure it happens.
- No swimming this week (well, beyond a hot tub at a surprise birthday party, but more on that later) and my swim lesson had to be canceled for pool cleaning. Bummer! I hope I can still fit one in, at some point!
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That’s so awesome that you and your dad work out together when you get the chance. I would love that!
I love it too! I really cherish those moments 🙂
What Pam says! Awesome father-daughter relationship!
Man you are a machine 40+ miles plus tons of biking..well done!! Looking forward to your recap.
You are such a training beast 🙂 Well done.
Sounds like a fun week! Impressive that you got that much running in with all the bike riding too 🙂
I love that you have the tradition of doing RAGBRAI w/ your dad every year!