Training Week 340
Highlight of the Week: Running while Steven rode his bike with me!
Monday | April 18, 2016: 10.5 m run + 10 m ride + teaching strength class
Loc: to VP woods, Temp: 51°/65°, Time: 1:40:58, Pace: 9:37 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Indoor Ride Time: 41:25, Pace: 14.5 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, sore sit bones!
Strength: sand bags, body bars and slam balls, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good/hot
Tuesday | April 19, 2016: 5.3 m run (w/xaarlin)
Loc: Chicago Lakefront Trail, Temp: 46°, Time: 51:10, Pace: 9:39 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Wednesday | April 20, 2016: 6.2 m run (incl. 4×400, 2×800, 1×1600)
Loc: hood, Temp: 53°/56°, Time: 51:39, Pace: 8:20 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good, held back by wind
Thursday | April 21, 2016: 20 mins strength + 10 m ride + 4.7 m run (w/Steven on bike!)
Indoor Ride Time: 39:55, Pace: 15.0 mph avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good, shaky from strength training
Loc: Lake Andrea, Temp: 64°/67°, Time: 41:17, Pace: 8:47 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: stronger as the run went on
Friday | April 22, 2016: teaching strength class
Strength: sand bags and slam balls, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Saturday | April 23, 2016: 6.3 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 40°/40°, Time: 56:27, Pace: 8:58 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: lazy
Sunday | April 24, 2016: 8 m run (w/Steve & Gina (on bike))
Loc: McKinney, Temp: 60°/66°, Time: 1:10:38, Pace: 8:49 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Notes:
- Blah, I felt lazy this week. The warmer weather does that to me! Looks like my mileage is already starting its summer decrease… quite a bit early. And it didn’t help that I skipped my long run this week. I had plans to do it Friday but my schedule was out of my control and by the time I could go, I was in such a bad mood I knew a windy run would make it worse. YES, sometimes running DOES make things worse. For me, anyway.
- The good news is, my left knee (that was bugging me a bit last week) feels fine now. Awesome!
- I ran an easy (just under) sub 9:00 pace in warmer/more humid (for me) conditions in Texas Sunday morning, which gives me hope that Wisconsin won’t feel super horrible if it’s warm. However… I am starting to really not care about the race, so who knows if I’ll even go for a PR! This happens to me each year with the race – I lose interest. Yet each year I think it will be different. Hmm… that’s dumb.
- Let’s end on a high note – Gina got in to the Chicago Marathon! Yay! I am excited she gets to experience it! This will be my first time going down for the race (to spectate) since I ran it in 2010!
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Yay for Gina! I take the train down and cheer at mile 13 so I’ll keep an eye out for her. Feel free to join us! : )
Cool 🙂 Maybe we’ll stop by your mile 13 spot! That’s right downtown, right?
What do you mean you don’t care? You HAVE to care so that I care about you caring during the race and it takes the pressure off of me. 🙂
I’m glad you knee is feeling better. Maybe the laziness was a protective measure your body knew you needed?
Yay for Gina getting into Chicago! I almost put my name in the lotto since my pub run buddy was putting her name in (she got in), but I’m just not sold on a fall marathon yet. And honestly I just don’t know how to feel about the big city races. Maybe one day. 🙂
Ha ha! Don’t worry! I am caring enough about your race that you don’t need to care at all! Okay, maybe a little 🙂
I think it was!!!
I would be curious to hear what you think of Chicago Marathon! Have you spectated one of the big city marathons?
Congrats to Gina!! I would love to spectate Chicago, maybe I can go with you.
Cool! Have you spectated it before?
I was going to say humid, in McKinney? It wasn’t humid at all yesterday… for me 😉
LOL, you must be used to it! We haven’t been hit with the humidity yet in Chicago 🙂 Soon, I bet!
I’m glad your knee is feeling better! And there are definitely times that running doesn’t make things better. For me it’s generally has to do with if things are hurting or if I’m having allergy issues.
Yeah! I always roll my eyes when I see those memes that say “you never regret a workout.” Not true for me!
It was humid here on Sunday morning too!! I looked at the temp on my phone before I left, so during the run I was like “what the heck?! Why I am I sweating like a pig?!”
Why do you think you lose interest in PRing before the race every year? And honestly I think you won’t even have to make much of an effort to “attempt” it. With where your fitness is and how your training runs have progressed, you could probably just run it by feel and still come away with a PR. You are there. Just go on autopilot next weekend and have fun! Also, I’ve found with humidity: the more I think about it, the worse it gets. When I stop fretting over whatever the given weather is, it loses much of its power to make me suffer. Funny how that goes, eh?
No! The humidity is there too! UGH! Hope it isn’t for Phili!
I think I lose interest because I struggle so much each year with the winter to spring transition. I don’t like more daylight in the evening or the warmer temps and it really messes with me, and makes me a bit depressed. So I sleep more and eat more and want to run less. I’ve been trying to figure this out but it still happens each year until I finally get used to it in June/July.
I probably will just do autopilot and see what happens! I won’t be upset if I don’t PR, too.
I get that! I’ve run humid marathons and told myself not to think about it past mile 1 or 2 cause that just makes it worse!
Hmm, very interesting…sounds like it could possibly be symptoms of reverse SAD? Have you heard of that? http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/when-summer-is-depressing/375327/
You know I get summer depression….I get so bummed, and it just drags on and on…
Oh, interesting! I could relate to some of that (trouble sleeping) but not all of it (losing weight, ha – I put on weight in the summer). Wow. I wish they had some solutions, beyond ideas to help me sleep! I do enjoy summer and being at the beach and boating… but I really love winter, too.
Maybe you’ve lost interest this year because you don’t have your partner in crime??!!!!
THAT IS DEFINITELY IT!!!! 🙁
Yes, this warm weather is for the birds. I sweated way too much on my 3 miler at lunch today. Not acclimated yet, but soon, maybe? Yay that you will be spectating the Chicago Marathon. Hopefully, I’ll see you spectating somewhere! 🙂
We will acclimate once we have our spell of hotter weather for a few weeks! And we will greatly welcome back cooler temps in October. Maybe we’ll be blessed with some cold in August again, ha!
Cool! Maybe we will see ya! 🙂
As per usual, it seems like the weather morphed from cold to hot almost overnight, yes? I am really glad your knee is doing better! Congratulations to Gina on being selected for Chicago! I’ll be out there spectating, myself, so maybe we can plan to meet up at some point on the course???
Oh, definitely. I am not ready for it, even though this happens each year!
I am so excited for her! It would be great to run in to you! Are you volunteering this year? Did you last year or am I confused?
Even though you were feeling lazy, I’m always impressed with your weekly recap. And, particularly impressed that you were speedy in the warmer weather!
It’s always funny when we have those races that for which our interest/enthusiasm just sort of… tapers off. Maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised?
Thank you very much 😀
I hope I am pleasantly surprised! This just shows me, again, that GOAL races don’t work well for me! But, I need to get out of my head and just go run it 🙂
You may feel lazy, but you still got some quality work done. I am hoping that PR comes for you! I think you are great shape to do it 🙂 Hopefully race day that adrenaline will kick in and you will go, even if you really aren’t feeling it right now.
I have been there, summer running last year about killed me(because it wouldn’t flipping end), I came back often in a worse mood than when I went out, so I know it happens! I don’t like that feeling…
Thank you! I hope so too!
Yeah! I know a few people that happened to, as well. I slow way down in the summer and … blah. It gets old, fast. Well, it gets old… slowly, as the heat goes and goes.