Training Week 352
Highlight of the Week: Running with Kelly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday | July 11, 2016: 10 m ride + teaching strength class
Indoor Ride Time: 38:34, Pace: 15.6 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Strength: resistance bands and mixed mode, Difficulty: easy, Felt: too hot, off
Tuesday | July 12, 2016: rest
Wednesday | July 13, 2016: 5 m run (incl. 6×400) + 7 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 82°/82°, Time: 48:59, Pace: 9:47 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: okay, JUST SO HOT
Loc: to VP Woods, Temp: 86°/85, Time: 1:12:01, Pace: 10:17 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: decent, just hot hot hot
Thursday | July 14, 2016: 4 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 85°/87°, Time: 39:35, Pace: 9:53 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: very appreciative of the 20+ mph winds
Friday | July 15 2016: teaching strength class + 1,000 m swim (breaststroke) + 15 m ride + 6 m run
Strength: resistance bands and mixed mode, Difficulty: easy, Felt:good
Loc: Grayslake outdoor pool, Temp (air): 63°, Time: 28:47, Pace: 2:51 min/100m, Difficulty: medium, Felt: tired arms, pooped!
Indoor Ride Time: 55:54, Pace: 16.1 mph, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: hood, Temp: 65°/65°, Time: 55:44, Pace: 9:17, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great, yay cool weather!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday | July 16, 2016: 15 m run
Loc: DPRT, Temp: 56°/66°, Time: 2:36:36, Pace: 10:26 avg, Difficulty: medium then easy then medium, Felt: good, but warmer than I thought I’d get!
Sunday | July 17, 2016: 7 m ride + 3 m run (w/Kelly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Indoor Ride Time: 27:39, Pace: 15.2 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good to shake out the legs!
Loc: Lake Andrea, Temp: 83°/83°, Time: 27:55, Pace: 9:18 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, hot when not running in to the wind!
Notes:
- These bullets are usually in chronological order but I am moving this one to the top – my training partner, Kelly, who I haven’t seen in just over a year was here on Sunday!!!! And she’s here through Tuesday. And we got to run together! And it was amazing!!!! MUCH HAPPINESS!!!!
- My legs feel so swollen and odd during my runs lately. I can’t tell if it’s from the heat, if I am retaining water, or from them being covered in poison whatever. Whatever it is, I hope it goes away soon (<—I wrote this at the beginning of the week and it seemed better by Sunday, yay!).
- Gosh, my Friday swim took it out of me! I swam slower than I normally do, but took less breaks and I felt like I was going to sink toward the end, then was all shaky when I got out. Odd!
- The two days of cool weather we had on Friday and Saturday were such a wonderful reprieve from the hot summer weather. And a good reminder that running is so much easier when it’s cooler. Ha. Although, the sun still got to me on Saturday!
- I still can’t believe how well that corn remover bandage worked! I haven’t had any issues with it since I used it! Yay!
Themocracy
That’s awesome that your training partner is back for a bit, and that your legs felt better by Sunday 🙂
Yes! It is SUCH a treat to run with her. She was the main person I was social with before she moved… so I’ve been a bit reclusive for a year!
I hear you about running being easier when it’s cool out. I was mulling taking this week off of running once I saw the forecast called for near-record highs. Then I realized that my gym has these things called “treadmills” and thought I may give them a try it the conditions outside are unbearable!
No! You are not going to try one of those things, are you?! LOL. I may have to run to Bobbi’s and jump in her pool when it’s so hot. But gah, the route there has NO shade.