Training Week 335
Highlight of the Week: Playing racquetball with Steven / a long run that flew by with Rachel!
Monday | March 14, 2016: 6 m run + 8 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 47°/45°, Time: 49:35, Pace: 8:16 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good, thirsty
Loc: to VP Woods, Temp: 50°/44°, Time: 1:10:02, Pace: 8:45 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: spent!
Strength: one dumbbell circuit and body weight circuit, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: tired from my runs (oops), too humid in the studio
Tuesday | March 15, 2016: 10 m ride + 7 m run
Indoor Ride Time: 37:29, Pace: 16.0 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, rushed to get back on time for a meeting!
Loc: Lake Andrea, Temp: 47°/47°, Time: 59:19, Pace: 8:28 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: ready for my rest day!
Wednesday | March 16, 2016: rest
Thursday | March 17, 2016: 15 mins strength + 5 m ride
Indoor Ride Time: 18:37, Pace: 16.1 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: fine
Friday | March 18, 2016: teaching strength class + 7 m run (incl. 6×800, WU, CD + RIs w/Bobbi) + 45 mins racquetball (w/Steven)
Strength: one dumbbell workout and body weight circuit, Difficulty:easy, Felt: good after I woke up!
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 33°/33°, Time: 1:04:13, Pace: 9:10, Difficulty: hard, but got easier, Felt: okay!
Saturday | March 19, 2016: 16 m run
Loc: Lake Andrea/VP Woods Loop, Temp: 33°/35°, Time: 2:30:25, Pace: 9:24 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: decent, sore from Friday!
Sunday | March 20, 2016: 5 m ride + 20 mins strength + 14.8 m run (w/Rachel, incl. 5 x 20 sec strides)
Indoor Ride Time: 20:28, Pace: 14.7 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good to stretch out the legs
Loc: Lake Geneva, Temp: 31°/40°, Time: 2:26:29, Pace: 9:54 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great!
Notes:
- To keep my mileage where I want it while working more in the office (and losing workout time to the commute), I’ve been doing double runs. I enjoy doubles, but man, I’ve been reaching marathon level tiredness on run #2 if I went fast for run #1. It’s definitely good for me to run on tired legs and push through that… but probably not every week.
- I let my competitive ass get the best of me when running laps around the lake Tuesday afternoon… and wanting to pass someone, then not wanting to let two people pass me at the end of my last mile. Sigh. I wasn’t being a jerk by any means, but there is no good reason for me to be that way!
- I mentioned knowing I needed to run in newer shoes this week. You know what told me? Not my knees, but my left plantar fascia. It felt tight at the beginning of the week, so I made sure to rest, wear supportive shoes around the house, and wear newer shoes to run in. It felt fine by Saturday.
- It was so awesome of Bobbi to run with me on Friday for my speedwork, even though I did the repeats on my own. It felt great to get that workout out of the way in the morning! I have an uneasy feeling until I get my speedwork done all week. Not a worry about doing it, but that I am going to make the time for it!
- We used the passes our neighbors left for us at the gym and had a lot of fun playing racquetball Friday night! I forgot how fun it is. And how wild I get. Oops. I twisted my neck really bad and dropped to the ground to recover. Then it felt fine. Ha ha.
- It was so nice to run with Rachel on Sunday! I mapped out a 13 mile road/trails (paved and grass) route for us and the miles FLEW by! Even when I added on some extra by missing a turn. Oops (but we found our lunch spot during that part, so all is good).
- And because of those extra miles I got really close to 60 for the week! Last week I was frustrated a headache kept me from meeting my 60 mile week goal. Maybe in the next few weeks I’ll hit it! (I could have gone out for another 1.2 mile run on Sunday to hit it, but, eh, I don’t want to give the number that much power, ha!)
Themocracy
It went by so fast I forgot to eat until almost mile 8!!!! Haha. Thanks for the run!
Nice week of miles! It was my highest mileage week in over 6 months!
It was awesome how fast it went! Do all my LRs with me?! 😛
That is so awesome!!! And more high mileage weeks to come… woot woot!