Training Week 199
Highlight of the Week: Participating in a women’s triathlon relay and seeing so many of my friends work hard and achieve amazing things! And, having so many supporters there, too!
Monday | August 5, 2013: teaching strength class
Strength: dumbbells and cones, Difficulty: medium, Felt: sweaty!
Tuesday | August 6, 2013: rest
Wednesday | August 7, 2013: 5 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 71°/71°, Time: 51:08, Pace: 10:13 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: gross (stomach & humidity)
Thursday | August 8, 2013: 8 m run (w/Bobbi) + teaching strength class x 2
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 60°/60°, Time: 1:25:51, Pace: 10:44 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Strength: body bars, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Strength: dumbbells and cones, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Friday | August 9, 2013: rest
Saturday | August 10, 2013: 14 m run (first 8 w/Emily, last 8 w/Bobbi) + 5 m bike
Loc: Grant Woods FP, Temp: 61°/61°, Time: 2:28:14, Pace: 10:35 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: okay then blah
Loc: hood, Temp: 60°, Time: 24:06, Pace: 12.5 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: excited to ride my new bike!
Sunday | August 11, 2013: Iron Girl Relay (5K)
Loc: RecPlex Pleasant Prairie, WI, Temp: 71°, Time: 25:17, Pace: 8:11 avg, Difficulty: mostly hard, Felt: like it took forever
Notes:
- My aunt Sue came to the Monday night strength class! She’s the first family member to take my class! I was honored she came (she was stopping to visit on her way back home to Iowa).
- I think I’ve noticed this before but it was apparent again on my bike ride Saturday – I mostly push with my right leg. When I focused and pushed with my left as well, I went so much faster! Gotta work on that.
- Gah… at the end of my long run Saturday I just felt dead on my legs! I think it was a combo of not enough breakfast and running a hilly 14-mile route. Meh.
- I got my bike sized for me on Friday. They adjusted the seat and handlebars, and I purchased bike shoes and clipless pedals (among other things). I practiced using the shoes and pedals on Saturday. No falls yet! And I even had to clip out once for traffic. They seem really easy to use. I think the fact that I was using nylon cages on my mountain bike helped prep me. I actually had to lean over to release my foot out of those. With the new shoes, I just angle my feet out and they come right off the pedals! Seems easier/safer than what I have on the mountain bike.
- I ran part of a sprint tri relay with my multisport club today (I’ll recap it later this week)! I did the run portion of this race two years ago*, and just hoped to beat my course time. I did! But I think I am having the same reaction I had two years ago – time to do speed work again and get in better shape! Ha ha.
- What should I do next week to celebrate Week 200 of (documented) training?
*Dad, there is a typo in that race report that you never found. I am disappointed. I left it there for you to find.
Themocracy
GREAT week, and was great getting to hang out with you at Bobbi’s house!
Yes! I had fun chatting with you!
Good luck pacing that 18 this weekend! 🙂
What an awesome week! And a family member came to your class?!?! How cool is that?
On my bike ride I have to remember to pull up, it makes me so efficient when I remember!!
To celebrate 200, you could try and do 200 combined miles for the week or 200 minutes of training (although that’s not much for you!!). Or you could just eat 200 Oreos!! 🙂
I like the 200 Oreos idea!
I thought it was so cool Sue came! My BIL will be here in October and he is going to come! Excited!
Oh gosh. 200 combined miles? If I run 40, that is 160 miles on the bike! How can I count strength training?
I think I will just go with 200 oreos. Which flavors should I get?!
I will join you on this quest to eat 200 Oreos!
Oreo Shopping List:
Birthday Cake
Double Stuffed
Head or Tails
Fudge Cream
Peanut Butter Fudge Cream
My mouth is watering…
Okay, now I need to run to Target!!
And let’s add the fudge coconut ones and the fudge PB ones!!!
I bought the fudge coconut ones today!! Yum!!! They were out of the fudge PB ones 🙁
Is it sad I named all those off the top of my head????
Those are so good! And the mint ones too.
It’s not sad. In fact, I am sad you did not name more! 😛
Fabulous week my friend! Big excitement with the bike. Yay!! 🙂
To celebrate 200, you should try to work out with 200 people! Ha!
Ha ha ha! I bet I know 200 people who work out! Big group run?! LOL!
What kind of GU did you eat on Thursday? I don’t recognize the package.
Did you feel tired after teaching two strength classes on Thursday? I feel like it would be exhausting!
It’s the Salted Caramel one.
I didn’t feel exhausted! I cut back on weights and did two different workouts so I wouldn’t feel like crap for the race I did yesterday. I actually felt more tired after teaching Monday night, when I was really pushing it 😉
Hehehe- love that little note to your Dad. We all have “that guy.” Mine happens to be my husband.
Your relay team looks so professional – everyone matching! Can’t wait until you commit to a tri – ha ha ha (evil laugh).
I do want to! There is an end of season one here on 9/14 but it’s in a hilly area and I would have to find a wet suit to borrow. And it’s the day before I have a trail half. Hmm. I don’t want to do an indoor one. I want to do one outdoors. Where should I go to look – some sort of tri site?
Awesome week! And your Iron Girl group photos are AWESOME! Lots of strength training this week to balance out the running- did you like the variation or prefer running (or now, biking)?!
Thanks, re: the photos! Steven got a lot of good ones. It was so nice of him to come!
Oh, I much prefer the variation! But… still like to run 5x a week. Don’t think THAT is going to work out. HA HA HA.
Do 200 different exercises for 1 minute each? I bet you could come up with 200 different ones for sure!
Damn! That is a good challenge. I should have come up with that earlier.
How about, 200 naps? 🙂
Because is spelled wrong and should in to be one word?
Hmm. It was spelled wrong but I saw it as one word. LOL. I fixed the error I found! Good hunting! 🙂
Great time on your 5K at the triathlon relay! That sounds like so much fun!
Thank you! It was a blast!