Training Week 369
Highlight of the Week: Running with Dad (in Iowa) and going to Lake Andrea (in Wisconsin) with Steven (I ran while he walked).
Monday | November 7, 2016: 6 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 61°/63°, Time: 58:13, Pace: 9:42 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Strength: medicine balls, core and cardio, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Tuesday | November 8, 2016: 10 m ride + 4.5 m run + 1 m walk (w/Steven)
Indoor Ride Time: 37:57, Pace: 15.8 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good (sore butt!)
Loc: Lake Andrea, Temp: 55°/55°, Time: 40:51, Pace: 9:04 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Wednesday | November 9, 2016: 1,407 yd swim + 5.5 m run + 5 m run (incl. 5 hill repeats)
Loc: FitNation, Time: 34:43, Pace:2:22 min/100 yd avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: decent, but slower
Loc: Gurnee, Temp: 39°/38°, Time: 55:32, Pace: 10:05 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, dressed just right!
Loc: hood, Temp: 51°/54°, Time:49:53, Pace: 9:58 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Thursday | November 10, 2016: rest
Friday | November 11, 2016: teaching strength class + 2.5 m run (w/Anne) + 4.5 m run
Strength: medicine balls, core and cardio, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 46°, Time: 31:52, Pace: 12:45, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: hood, Temp: 50°/50°, Time: 44:33, Pace: 9:54 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | November 12, 2016: 10.2 m run (w/Dad on bike)
Loc: Cedar Falls loop, Temp: 25°/38°, Time: 1:48:09, Pace: 10:36 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Sunday | November 13, 2016: 2.8 m run (incl. 6×1:00)
Loc: xx, Temp: 36°/36°, Time: 28:30, Pace: 10:11 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Notes:
- I meant to post this in my last training post and forgot! I liked this opinion piece on shape.com “I’ll Never Run a Marathon—And That Doesn’t Make Me Less of a Runner” (pdf here). Basically, the author gets crap from some rando about “only” training for a half marathon. Sigh. I don’t get the distance shame. This is an old story, but when I was still in a running club, some members were giving me crap about training for a 5K. “That’s it?” “Yeah, that’s it. I am running 30+ miles a week training for a 5K PR. What’s it to you?” I see it all the time – people pressuring others to do what they are doing (marathons, whatever else), but that will never be me. You do you. And let me do me.
- I’ve decided I need hill repeats back in my life! It’s not as hilly where we live now (as it was by our townhome and even rental home), but I can make some of these inclines work for repeats… if I run them during non-rush hour.
- Everyone my dad and I encountered on the trails on Saturday was super friendly! Besides saying hello, they’d also say “good work!” or “looking good!” The runners in Iowa are either really nice… or we really looked liked we needed encouragement. Ha ha!
- Saturday was the first really cold morning this fall, where my family lives in Iowa, and I didn’t even check the forecast before I packed! I usually do, but didn’t this time. I definitely layered up for my run (and felt fine… my poor dad though! He was too cold on his bike).
Themocracy
I don’t get why people are so concerned with what others are doing. There are people who only like to run for pure speed and get the most thrill from running a fast 5k and they get a lesser thrill running slower marathons. I was a runner for a long time before I decided to tackle a marathon (and was quite happy) and there likely will be a point in my life when I give up marathoning. I’m sure those people who were shaming you will go through a similar phase in their running life. Some of them probably aren’t even running any longer and wish they could do a 5k! “You do you. And let me do me”. Well said.
I don’t think I will EVER understand why people are so concerned with what others are doing… in running, working out, religion, work, how they eat… blah. Why do these people want everyone else to be like them? I think it’s great that running does offer such a variety of events from 5K to marathon to ultras and trail running and even obstacles races. And you are right that over time we won’t be able to do them all anymore!
I think people just say all that crap, about only a 5k etc, because they are secretly competitive and want to ‘beat’ other people they know. Quite happy to beat my own goals or just have fun.
Thats nice about all the people saying hi and good work, it takes so little effort but you never know it might be the little thing a person needs to put some pep in their step that day.
Its been cold here too. I’m really excited to be done with work and get to enjoy running in the sun when its cold.
Ha, oh yeah. Some people are WAY too in to comparisons in times, which is really dumb since we’re all built so different, are different ages, and different sexes!
I loved that they were saying that stuff! I really like talking to people I see on the trails!
I am happy you FINALLY have some cold!!
I love that article – thanks for the link! I’m barely hanging onto one half marathon a year…I think it’s a good thing when you recognize what you like and what you don’t. Running is a choice, and for crying out loud, whatever you choose is fine with me. People pick the dumbest things to judge others on.
YES YES YES! If you find an event you even like to do, good for you! I do NOT get forcing yourself to do longer distances when you don’t like it (not you, thinking of someone else). Do what you like until you don’t like it anymore. Then find something different and cool and new to me to tell me about so I learn 🙂
Friendly is nice. I noticed when I ran in Dallas no one even acknowledged me lol and you know my normal morning people usually don’t either.
I love that article and I confess I think that was part of my own pressure on myself to do a marathon so I feel like a “real” runner. A half is a big accomplishment and i have been thinking about that a lot more lately.
Go get those hills 🙂 It is cool now I need to try and see if my foot will tolerate that kind of work.
I am surprised – I would expect people to be friendly there!
I hope you do feel like a “real” runner now, if that is what it took for you!
What I find so funny about the judgment about people running or not a marathon is that for a lot of “serious” (meaning elite and even pro) runners, the marathon distance isn’t something that you tackle for your first race – it’s kind of a long build-up. The same is true in triathlon – it’s only amateurs who think that it’s a great idea to sign up for a 140.6 without having much experience. Most pros don’t go long until they have years of experience. And I *GET* the idea of “Oh, I want to set a major personal goal”. But don’t judge other people. Those short distances are HARD and nothing to scoff at.
YEP YEP YEP, there is a smart linear progression that you DO NOT have to take if you don’t want. What about Usain Bolt and people who do “short” races? Would they say this crap to him?!