Running + Training

By kilax, July 1, 2018 8:41 pm

Highlight of the Week: Working out more! Doing well in the heat! Going on a longer ride!

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Monday | June 25, 2018: 7.5 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: VP Woods Loop, Temp: 59°/59°, Time: 1:15:10, Pace: 10:01 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, annoyed with traffic noise
Strength: body bars and soft balls, Felt: good
Tuesday | June 26, 2018: 3 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 62°/64°, Time: 31:08, Pace: 10:22 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: dead legs
Wednesday | June 27, 2018: rest
Thursday | June 28, 2018: 10 m run
Loc: VP Woods Loop, Temp: 61°/70°, Time: 1:41:10, Pace: 10:07 avg, Difficulty: mostly easy, Felt: good
Friday | June 29, 2018: teaching strength class + 1,218 yd swim + 5 m run + 15 m bike
Strength: body bars and soft balls, Felt: good
Loc: FitNation, Time: 25:51, Pace: 2:07 min/100 yd, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: VP Woods, Temp: 92°/93°, Time: 51:44, Pace: 10:20, Difficulty: easy, Felt: surprisingly good in the heat
Indoor Ride Time: 1:01:05, Pace: 14.7 mph avg., Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | June 30, 2018: 35.5 m bike + 3.5 m run
Loc: MB/88th Loop, Temp: 79°/82°, Time: 2:16:32, Pace: 15.6 mph avg, Difficulty: easy-ish, Felt: good, just a bit beat down with the bumps, then wind in the end
Loc: VP Woods, Temp: 93°/93°, Time: 34:41, Pace: 9:55 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: fine except bugs on my face and sunscreen in my eyes!
Sunday | July 1, 2018: 12.5 m run
Loc: ML/VP Woods Loop, Temp: 78°/80°, Time: 2:15:02, Pace: 10:48 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: decent for the humidity/dew point!

Notes:

• I think my Monday night class liked the workout! During class, someone even said, “Who hates Kim?!” Ha ha ha, love it.
• My legs were DEAD Tuesday morning. Wednesday is typically the only day I take off from running, which makes Tuesday the sixth day in a row of running, and yeah, I was feeling it. I thought I’d do speedwork on Tuesday because it was going to be the last cool morning of the week, but I passed on that bad idea. I’ll need to find a new speedwork day if I keep Thursdays as a long run day.
• All the big “fly around your head in circles while you run” bugs are out. Yay… not.
• It felt good to get back in the pool! I hadn’t gone in three weeks!
• Into the wind during the end of my Saturday ride, a fellow cyclist passed me and asked if I wanted to draft off of him for a while. How nice! I lasted maybe half a mile at his 19mph pace!
• I’ve been running with my shirt off when it’s so hot, and I didn’t think ahead about the fact that that would mean I have no where to wipe my sweaty face! I had a painful experience Saturday when I was sweating so much that my sunscreen was running in my eyes and I couldn’t relieve it (I tired pouring water in my eyes and that didn’t help). I’ll have to use the less runny sunscreen next time, and bring TP.
• With the hot temps at the end of the week, I tried hard to stay on my mental game, repeating mantras like “I love running, I am a strong runner,” and “your legs aren’t tired, you’re just hot.” It’s cheesy, but it works for me, so I am going to keep at it.
• Monthly recap time. In June I ran 140.7 miles (22 runs), cycled 58.5 miles (2 indoor rides, 1 outdoor rides) and swam 3,444 yards (3 swims) (these are my lowest numbers in all three disciplines, all year! Ha! That is what taper and race recovery will do to ya). My coldest run was 47°F and my warmest was 93°F. I did 2 tempo workouts. I taught 7 strength classes and 1 fitness boxing class. I ran one race, Grandma’s Marathon.

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