Training Week 351
Highlight of the Week: Running to Bobbi’s house!
Monday | July 4, 2016: 10.5 m run + 10 m bike + 10 mins strength
Loc: to VP Woods, Temp: 71°/72°, Time: 1:50:28, Pace: 10:31 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: warm, better – legs becoming less sore
Indoor Bike Time: 36:24, Pace: 16.5 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, but sweaty!
Tuesday | July 5, 2016: 5.5 m run (incl. 10×1:00) + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 78°/79°, Time: 54:05, Pace: 9:50 avg, Difficulty: hard, Felt: hot & heavy
Strength: body bars, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, sweaty
Wednesday | July 6, 2016: 6 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 78°/82°, Time: 57:56, Pace: 9:39 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good until the last 1.5 miles then like death, thankful for the breeze!
Thursday | July 7, 2016: rest
Friday | July 8, 2016: teaching strength class + 900 m swim (mostly breaststroke) + 3 m run + 5 m run
Strength: resistance bands and mixed mode, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Grayslake outdoor pool, Temp (air): 64°/68°, Time: 24:59, Pace: 2:31min/100m, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good!
Loc: hood, Temp: 82°/84°, Time: 27:47, Pace: 9:15, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good in the clouds
Loc: to Bobbi’s, Temp: 85°/84°, Time: 47:42, Pace: 9:32, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, enjoyed the breeze
Saturday | July 9, 2016: 5 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 69°/72°, Time: 49:46, Pace: 9:57 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay, just so tired (sleepy)
Sunday | July 10, 2016: 7.25 m ride + teaching fitness boxing + 5 m run
Indoor Bike Time: 27:06, Pace: 16.1 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Strength: Body weight and plyo box and boxing, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: hood, Temp: 77°/77°, Time: 46:26, Pace: 9:17 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Notes:
- I feel like I am going through the second summer heat/humidity acclimation. And am at the very beginning, where it feels miserable. I am not sure if I got reset, going to Alaska, or if the humidity and heat are a lot worse than they were in June. Probably a mix of both. Come on, body, get used to it!
- Swimming laps is such a treat when it’s this hot out, though! I hope to keep it up after my Friday class as long as the weather’s good (and the outdoor pool is open!).
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The heat is killing me too! Well, mainly the humidity. I’m not acclimated to it at all so I’ve been stopping often during my runs. And we’re about to experience a heat wave too 🙁 How long does it typically take you to get acclimated to the heat + humidity? I’m struggling…
I think it takes me several weeks – the first two are pretty meh and by the third one I am getting used to it! Hang in there! And slow down your pace by a lot and drink lots of fluids! 🙂
ha! geese and a turtle sighting in the same week 🙂 I bet getting cooled down in AL may be making it feel just a little harder.
Another solid week down!
I am refusing to acclimatize to the heat this year ha ha. I’ll just have the misery of the treadmill 🙂
Good for you! I find the treadmill to be much harder than the heat!
well Im only doing the bare minimum to get ready for Dublin in Sept. (no heat training required) and then I’ll go back to full outdoors training after that when the temps will be so much more manageable.
I don’t know how you do it because I’d say the heat is much more of a shock after the temperatures you had this winter
When do the temps get better there? I was going to ask Sept/Oct… but that is when the race is!
As long as I can recover properly (hot bath in the winter, cold showers in the summer) from extreme weather runs, I do okay! I just have to make sure I start recovering as soon as I stop running because that is when my body is usually like “wtf did we just do?!”
Yeah, I’ve been bad and just haven’t acclimated to the heat 🙁 We were in Iceland and then I hurt my foot. So I had my first outdoor run in a long time this weekend and it was tough. Thankfully it was a short one.
Oh yeah! Take it slow while you get back to it!! (Ha, as if there is any other way in the summer!)
I am going to vote for re-acclimatizing after coming back from Alaska. It sadly takes so much more work to acclimate that it does to de-acclimate (is that even a word?!) and I think the jet lag on top makes it tough. I did the Fort2Base nautical 10 last year the week after Alaska and felt like death, it felt like I’d never run in the heat/humidity before.
Speaking of jet lag how are you feeling this week?
Thanks for sharing your experience – that makes me think that must be a huge part of it!
I am still super tired! But I think it might be that my body is trying to fight off the poison whatever I have.
It was so worth it though right? People look at me funny when I say this but I loved Alaska more than Hawaii. It was so nice.
Oh yeah. The poison ivy has to be so hard! 🙁 I didn’t realize it lasted so long, how awful!
Totally! I loved the weather there (one of many things I loved!).
It probably doesn’t help that I was itching it so much! When I am not in the office I can cover myself in calamine lotion, and that helps!
I wonder if you are acclimating to the humidity later, since you aren’t running early in the morning as often?
That too! Last year I ran most of my weekday runs midday or afternoon too, and it helped me with the heat, but not so much the humidity. Also, I am not running in the shade when I run during the week, so that adds to the suffering too. SUFFERING ALL AROUND!