Training Week 330
Highlight of the Week: The sleep I got instead of running / cycling in our new basement / teaching Valentine’s Day Fitness Boxing!
Monday | February 8, 2016: teaching strength class
Strength: two dumbbell and core with cardio, Difficulty: easy, Felt: decent
Tuesday | February 9, 2016: rest
Wednesday | February 10, 2016: 7 m run + 10 m ride + 10 mins strength
Loc: Lindenhurst Park District, Time: 58:55, Pace: 8:25 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good – needed to run
Indoor Ride Time: 35:19, Pace: 17.0 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Thursday | February 11, 2016: 3 m run
Loc: new hood, Temp: 19°/18°, Time: 23:21, Pace: 7:47 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: surprisingly good
Friday | February 12, 2016: teaching strength class + 8 m ride + 6 m run (incl. 5×800)
Strength: body bars and bands mixed mode, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Indoor Ride Time: 27:04, Pace: 17.7 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Lindenhurst Park District, Time: 49:17, Pace: 8:13, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: okay, but too tight on the track
Saturday | February 13, 2016: 14.5 m run
Loc: Rec Plex, Time: 2:09:16, Pace: 8:55 avg, Difficulty: physically easy/mentally tough, Felt: decent, sore from too much indoor running
Sunday | February 14, 2016: teaching fitness boxing
Strength: boxing and body weight movements, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Notes:
- I started my week off EXHAUSTED from moving and unpacking Saturday-Monday! I skipped my Monday afternoon run in favor of a nap and think I could have slept until Tuesday morning. Ha! I took Tuesday off from running, too. Then my mood was HELLA off from not running for two days. Blah.
- Bobbi and I rode to the indoor track together on Wednesday (but didn’t run together). The track is elevated over the open gym, and there was a Jazzzercize class with great tunes going on for our entire run, so I didn’t have to wear my headphones! The class looked SO fun – I want to try it out! Running so many laps in one direction bugged my outer knee a bit when I stopped running (to get a drink or go to the bathroom) but it was fine after the run.
- I wonder if I’ve had my bike trainer resistance too high for some time – when I set it back up at the new house I had it looser and I felt like I was flying, and could hit a high cadence in a middle gear (which is how it should be).
- This was just NOT my week. I got a massive headache on Thursday and had to take the afternoon off. I felt better when I got up and went for a short run, but it was not the mileage I wanted to get in. Friday and Saturday were really cold, so I took my run indoors. I thought I was cheating doing my repeats indoors on Friday and not in the wind like last week but I think I’d take the wind over those tight corners! 7 laps to the half mile! I only did 5×800 (and skipped my 8×1:00). Honestly, 800s on that short of a track did NOT feel safe.
- On Saturday I went to a bigger track for my long run – 6 laps to the mile. We all know how that went. Ha. My body is not a huge fan of running in the same direction over and over – it makes my feet and lower legs sore. And the track got a bit crowded, later in the day. Let’s hope I don’t have to do that again – too many runs indoors this week!
- At least my week ended with something awesome – fitness boxing! I encouraged the class to wear red, pink or black and brought in cookies from Maria’s Oven for everyone! Hopefully next week will be less nutso…
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I don’t how you lasted as long as you did on the short track. I think you did amazing 🙂
Cheers, a new week begins!
Thank you! Believe me, I did not think I would make it to those 5 repeats when I started!
I’ll try Jazzercise with you some time 🙂 My cousin does 300+ classes a year (and lost a TON of weight doing so) and it sounds pretty fun.
If you can believe it, I actually forgot about the cookies (they were hiding in my purse) until I saw this post last night, so thanks for the reminder 🙂
We should go check it out! It looked INTENSE!!! I bet it’s a workout I would like 🙂
Aww, good! 🙂
All those miles on indoor tracks…no wonder your legs hurt! Mine get really tight when I do too many treadmill runs. Stupid weather making us have to go inside.
Yeah, hopefully that’s the end of that!
This was a hard week! The weather was awful and I thought I was going to lose my mind from so much indoor running. It is mentally so much harder to go to the gym than it is to just go out the door and run outside.
It seems like the hard work you did in 2015 is really paying off. All of your training runs are so much faster than when I started following you last year. Nice work!
It really is! Running indoors does not have the same release for me! I hope this week is better!
Thanks 🙂
I always change direction because my outer knees do get bothered if I ran strictly in one direction. If I’m on the track, I’ll try to get there at a time when no one else is there so I can switch directions.
I would totally do that if I had the track to myself! 🙂 On Saturday there were about 30 people on it. The day before, I ran the opposite of the direction I had run on that track the other day, ha ha.
Moving/unpacking/cleaning is super tiring! I am always so glad when it is done. This weekend Matt and I spent a lot of time unpacking the few remaining boxes in our new place and hanging things on the wall. It is starting to feel more homey (it’s been quite the journey with the new place! and not a good one!)
The bike trainer resistance comment is interesting to me. I almost always ride my bike indoors by time only because the distance is kind of arbitrary on the trainer. It really depends on how much resistance you have applied! Sometimes I will use the distance the encourage myself to go a little longer (i.e.”you are almost to 12 miles, keep going!”). I try to keep my trainer close to how it would be riding outside (basically so I can average about 15 mph) but it is hard to know where that is! Plus then I can do surges up to 20 mph and that is motivating too.
What kind of a indoor trainer do you have? Are you able to shift gears and change the resistance? I have a fluid trainer so just shifting the gear on my bike changes the resistance so it makes it easier to do lots of different intervals if I want which I really like.
Awesome – already hanging stuff up! I am sorry it’s been a bad journey 🙁 Did you end up where you wanted to?
Yeah, I have a Kinetic fluid trainer. Most of the time I am lazy and just do steady state rides! Ha! Sometimes I mess around with it and do intervals or try to alter my cadence or whatever. I think I had the resistance too tight before – I wasn’t spinning as high of a cadence in the middle gears as I am now. I usually ride with a time frame in mind (30 mins, whatever) but then always try to stop on a whole number. LOL!