Running + Training

By kilax, June 25, 2017 9:16 pm

Highlight of the Week: Going roller skating with Efit friends/doing a triathlon relay with Rachel and Alicia!

Monday | June 19, 2017: 5 m run  + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 61°/64°, Time: 53:37, Pace: 10:43 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: fine
Strength: plyo boxes, kettlebells, & boxing, Difficulty: easy, Felt: too sweaty
Tuesday | June 20, 2017: 4.5 m run 
Loc: VP Woods, Temp: 61°/63°, Time: 46:46, Pace: 10:23 avg, Difficulty: easy-ish, Felt: good until the sun came out
Wednesday | June 21, 2017: 5 m run (w/xaarlin)
Loc: Lakefront Trail, Temp: 63°/64°, Time: 50:45, Pace: 10:08 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Thursday | June 22, 2017: 4.5 m run (incl. 4×400)
Loc: Lake Andrea, Temp: 76°/76°, Time: 47:23, Pace: 10:32 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: fine, just tired and sweaty
Friday | June 23, 2017: teaching strength class + 1,512 yd swim + 3 m run + roller skating
Strength: plyo boxes, kettlebells, and boxing, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: FitNation, Time: 33:19, Pace: 2:12 min/100 yd, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great!
Loc: VP Woods, Temp: 72°/75°, Time: 29:06, Pace: 9:42, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Saturday | June 24, 2017: 10 m run + 10 m ride
Loc: Kilbourne/DPRT loop, Temp: 65°/68°, Time: 1:53:03, Pace: 11:18 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: to RecPlex & back, Temp: 68°/69°, Time: 39:27, Pace: 15.2 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Sunday | June 25, 2017: 40K ride (Pleasant Prairie Triathlon)
Loc: Pleasant Prairie, Temp: 55°/59°, Time: 1:23:14, Pace: 17.9 mph avg, Difficulty: easy to medium, Felt: great

Notes:

• It was lovely to run with xaarlin in the city Wednesday before work! I hope we can do it again this summer.
• I got a pre-race massage on Thursday, then felt fantastic during my Friday swim. I am accrediting that to the massage! My shoulders have felt tight lately, and I didn’t realize how much it had been affecting my swims, until they didn’t feel that way.
• I’ve been randomly mentioning setting up a roller skating event for the studio I teach at to my Monday night class for a long time. So I finally did it, and a lot of people came – and not just from my class! We had SO MUCH FUN. I felt comfortable on the skates right away and could’ve kept going! I’ll definitely be setting up another skating get-together.
• Saturday’s ride (to test out my bike after having it fixed and tuned up!) was the first time I’ve ridden from our house (that we’ve lived in for sixteen months now!). The road we live off of has a high speed limit, but there wasn’t much traffic and the drivers were courteous (and once you cross the border in to Wisconsin, there is a very nice shoulder). I want to do it again!
• Alicia, Rachel, and I had a lot of fun at our Olympic distance triathlon relay on Sunday… and I am ready to do it again! More on the race later this week!

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2 Responses to “Training Week 401”

1. Chaitali says:

   June 26, 2017 at 8:44 am

   I loved the skating photos on instagram, it looked like a lot of fun! And interesting about the massage helping with the swimming. It’s so funny how we get used to things and forget that they’re not normal and we’re not supposed to feel that way.

   • kilax says:

     June 26, 2017 at 2:17 pm

     It really was! I’d like to go again!

     Ha, and yes re: getting used to things feeling that way! I actually think swimming is what makes my shoulders tight, too! Eek.