Training Week 455
Highlight of the Week: The return of intervals! And lovely July running weather to go along with them!
Monday | July 2, 2018: 7 m run + 15 m bike + teaching strength class
Loc: Rev. VP Woods Loop, Temp: 66°/65°, Time: 1:10:25, Pace: 10:03 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: pretty good!
Indoor Ride Time: 54:59, Pace: 16.4 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, sore butt!
Strength: body bars and soft balls, Felt: good, challenged
Tuesday | July 3, 2018: 2.5 m walk
Wednesday | July 4, 2018: 12 m run + 17 m bike
Loc: DPRT/Kilbourne Loop, Temp: 68°/74°, Time: 2:02:39, Pace: 10:13 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Loc: Kilbourne/Hunt Club Loop, Temp: 78°/82°, Time: 1:02:18, Pace: 16.4 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Thursday | July 5, 2018: 4 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 73°/73°, Time: 39:57, Pace: 9:59 avg, Difficulty: easy-ish, Felt: good, just sweaty!
Friday | July 6, 2018: teaching strength class + 1,008 yd swim + 5 m run
Strength: body bars and soft balls, Felt: good, challenged
Loc: FitNation, Time: 21:43, Pace: 2:09 min/100 yd, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: VP Woods, Temp: 72°/71°, Time: 49:13, Pace: 9:50, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, enjoyed the breeze
Saturday | July 7, 2018: 13 m run (incl. 6×4:00) + 10 m bike + teaching fitness boxing
Loc: Lake Andrea/Outlet Mall Loop, Temp: 56°/62°, Time: 2:08:32, Pace: 9:53 avg, Difficulty: mostly easy, Felt: great!
Indoor Ride Time: 38:48, Pace: 15.5 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, sweaty
Sunday | July 8, 2018: 3 m run + 42.2 m bike
Loc: hood, Temp: 57°, Time: 29:18, Pace: 9:45 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Hunt Club/MB/88th Loop, Temp: 64°/77°, Time: 2:39:53, Pace: 15.8 mph avg, Difficulty: mostly easy, Felt: good, but frustrated with the bumps
Notes:
- Last weekend, I stubbed my right foot against our weight station, and now my big toe is really tender to the touch. And a bit swollen. And red. If that doesn’t go down soon, I am going to see the doctor and ask them to remove the toenail or a drill a hole in to it or something. It’s not bugging me enough that I can’t work out, but the pressure on it during my swim was not pleasant! Edited: after I published this, I was able to drain it myself. YAY, sweet relief! And now, for the toenail to fall off…
- It’s been humid on my runs, and on the longer ones, I am coming back with wet socks and wrinkled toes, eww! Steven asked me a few times what smells in the garage – that would be the shoes from that run!
- Running has been feeling harder, probably because of the higher heat and humidity, and I’m out there feeling like I am going so much slower, but when I look at my watch when I am done, I really haven’t been – low 10:00s is great for me in the summer! I hope I can keep that up. And something I realized – it will be much easier to if I listen to music and not podcasts. I love podcasts but they make me run a bit slower.
- I haven’t run intervals since April! I’ve been doing tempos instead. I finally got back to some intervals this week and we had wonderful weather for them in July (56°)! Woot!
- My strength classes made me sore this week, yay! We used soft balls (filled with sand) this week and they really work your hands and lower arms. Then my students beat the crap out of me at boxing! I could really feel it Sunday morning when I woke up!
- Anne was in town this weekend and came to my boxing class! I miss having her as a student.
- Ha, I rode my bike more this week than I did last month. And the month of April. And almost the month of May. I’ve been putting more time in on the Saddle to get my butt ready for our 70 mile ride on Day 7 of RAGRABI!
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What bad luck. I hope it feels better soon.
The humidity is killer. I don’t think I realized just how much of a role it plays, over heat, until I ran in dry heat this weekend…totally different, much less draining than humidity. My clothes and shoes still stink tho :p
It does! Ha! I updated the post, cause right after I published it, I drained that bad boy. Now, I just need to wait for the toenail to fall off.
Yes, the humidity and dew point! When the air is so full of water we can’t sweat well and it just lingers and ruins our clothes and shoes. Y-U-C-K! Are you happy to be back to the dry heat?!
I feel the same about podcasts. I’ve switched to listening to podcasts or audio books during easy runs to help keep my pace easy and then listening to music during speed work.
Yes! That is what I have to do, too!
I’m so curious – what did you do to relieve the toe pressure yourself? Have you had a nail drilled into before??? I’m sure it’s relieving, but wow that sounds… intense.
I miss your classes too! WAH 🙁 I’m glad it worked out that you had boxing while we were in town! I’m still hurting!
I have not had one drilled in to before, but have heard of it! So, I had all this liquid I could see under my toenail. Then I noticed it was kind of puffed up on top of the nail, so I just cut that open (the skin) and drained that bad boy! Woot!!!! No need to use the Dremel!
I am glad it worked out too! We’ll have to do that every time you’re in town! I hope you are less sore by now! 🙂
That’s pretty bada$$. Glad you were able to do it yourself! Can’t wait to read your DIY toenail draining tutorial post 😀
I thought my arms were feeling better until I had to lift a case of water at the grocery store today ha ha ha! But my legs/glutes are feeling better after a slow run this morning.
Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pics, so no tutorial. Plus, it’s disgusting! 😉 Heh. And I can come up with crap content on my own.
Ha! Damn that water! I am glad the run helped your legs though!