Training Week 308
Highlight of the Week: When people said they had fun at my fitness boxing class (and that they liked my playlist!).
Monday | September 7, 2015: Benefit Classic Half Marathon (first 8.75 w/Gina & Steve)
Loc: Dubuque, Temp: 69°/71°, Time: 2:20:59, Pace: 10:45 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: not my best, but ok!
Tuesday | September 8, 2015: rest
Wednesday | September 9, 2015: 10 mins kettlebells + 2 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 70°, Time: 19:20, Pace: 9:40 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, enjoyed the breeze
Thursday | September 10, 2015: 5 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 61°/62°, Time: 47:32, Pace: 9:30 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: refreshed by the rain!
Friday | September 11, 2015: teaching strength class + 6 m run (incl. 3×1600)
Strength: soft balls, Difficulty: hard, Felt: good but out of it
Loc: hood, Temp: 61°/61°, Time: 55:20, Pace: 9:12, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: surprisingly good
Saturday | September 12, 2015: 7.2 m ride + teaching fitness boxing + 7.6 m ride + 3 m run
Loc: home to Efit, Temp: 51°/50°, Time: 36:06, Pace: 12.0 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, but wished I was running!
Strength: body weight and boxing, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Efit to home, Temp: 53°, Time: 37:32, Pace: 12.2 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 61°/61°, Time: 27:49, Pace: 9:16 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Sunday | September 13, 2015: 19 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 49°/65°, Time: 3:19:38, Pace: 10:30 avg, Difficulty: mostly easy, Felt: really good!
Notes:
- Ugh. I feel like a total ass for almost always being out of shape when I run with Gina and Steve. Or, like last weekend, being sick (and sucking at running in the humidity, but I don’t feel bad about that – there isn’t much I can do about it, ha!). Gina and Steve are visiting in two weeks, so hopefully I will have some redemption then!
- Did you hear about the police officer (Lt. Joe Gliniewicz) that was killed in Fox Lake, Illinois? Fox Lake is really close to where I live, and it’s been heart warning to see so many support signs, lights and even car decals for him out on my runs through the neighborhood. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. I hope the authorities figure out what happened so they mystery isn’t looming around his loved ones.
- I did my long(er) run by myself this week (like I normally do) and thought I was going on a trail where I wouldn’t see many other people, but I saw 93 other people out and about (counting them gave me something to do, ha ha)! Must be the nice weather (hallelujah!) and that I went out later in the morning. I saw one older gentleman wearing a shirt that said “I may be old but I saw all the cool bands.” HA!
- Even though my Sunday long run was on a trail with no shade and in the full sun, the cooler temps, slight breeze and LOW HUMIDITY made SUCH a difference in how I felt. Yay, early fall temps! I felt so good that I ran really even splits (for me) and my last mile was my fastest. Yee haw!
Themocracy
This weekend’s weather made such a HUGE huge difference! I am so ready for the weather to be consistently fall, this was great!
I hope you have nice fall weather for your race, too!
I’ve been loving the Fall mornings we’ve been having recently. And that’s awesome that you counted the number of people you saw on the trail 🙂 I’ll have to remember that trick for the next time I’m bored on a run.
Don’t you wish you bottle up runs like your long one on Sunday and pull them out on race day?