Training Week 205
Highlight of the Week: Being able to pick up the pace for miles 7-15 of my long run. That was a real confidence booster!
Monday | September 16, 2013: 6.5 m run (w/Yvonne) + 10.1 m bike + teaching strength class
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 47°/46°, Time: 58:49, Pace: 9:03 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: surprisingly great
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 62°/61°, Time: 42:43, Pace: 14.2 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Strength: Modified Back to School Workout, Difficulty: easy (observing), Felt: okay
Tuesday | September 17, 2013: 5.1 m run (w/Emily + GRCers)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 45°/46°, Time: 52:56, Pace: 10:23 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: sleepy
Wednesday | September 18, 2013: strength class
Strength: Modified Back to School Workout, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: shitty
Thursday | September 19, 2013: 3 m run + 7.2 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 67°/68°, Time: 10:52, Pace: 32:38 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: too asleep (called it quits at 3)
Loc: Round Lake to Grayslake, Temp: 79°/79°, Time: 1:16:06, Pace: 10:34 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: like I was melting
Friday | September 20, 2013: teaching strength class + 3.2 m run (w/Bobbi)
Strength: Modified Back to School Workout, Difficulty: easy (for me, ha), Felt: good
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 66°/66°, Time: 34:01, Pace: 10:38, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, but so sick of bathroom stops!
Saturday | September 21, 2013: 17.3 m run (last 5 w/Bobbi) + Four Stars 4M Race* (w/Bobbi + Maureen) + 6.3 m bike
*Was 3.5 miles
Loc: DPRT, Temp: 52°/60°, Time: 2:56:37, Pace: 10:13 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, breathing a bit heavy though!
Loc: DPRT, Temp: 60°/62°, Time: 46:40, Pace: 13:21 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Loc: Round Lake ish area, Temp: 63°/64°, Time: 23:42, Pace: 16.0 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: SO DAMN ANNOYED w/the wind
Sunday | September 22, 2013: 5 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 44°/44°, Time: 52:09, Pace: 10:25 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay
Notes:
- What a week. I started it out with a pretty bad case of DOMS, mostly in my quads. I was worried about my Monday morning run, but it ended up being my fastest one of the week!
- I haven’t been able to take the Wednesday night strength class since August 21st! So, this was my return after four weeks off. You would think I would be fine, since I teach two classes a week, but the teaching has been mostly instructional/observational. So, Wednesday was a bit tough, but I was back at it by Friday am. Woo hoo! And, phew.
- Speaking of Friday am! Katie came and took the class! Schweet! Bobbi has been taking it too, hmm, any other local bloggers want to work out at 5:00 am on Friday?
- Check out the schweet socks in the last row of pics. Michele at Running for Oreos sent those to me! What a sweetie! If you don’t read her blog… start. She is hilarious!
- I have to work in the office a lot this week and my #1 worry is getting my miles in. Wah wah wah, my life is so hard <—- sarcasm. It’ll be fine. Deep breaths. Ha ha.
- I hope to have a Muddy Monk race report up tomorrow! I had a lot of fun and enjoyed running through the woods and jumping over logs and dodging branches!
- Congrats to all my friends who raced this weekend! I got to see a lot of friends at the Fox Valley Marathon today, and am anxious to hear about Rachel‘s Fox Cities Marathon! Who raced/spectated this weekend? My running club’s 5K was today and I heard that was a success!
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I’ll be back next week!!! Doing some extra strength this week to prepare. 🙂
Awesome!
I ran the QC Marathon, yay yay yay! Someday I might even blog about it! 🙂 We’re heading to Chicago tomorrow to celebrate!
Yay! I can’t wait to hear all about it!
What … is on your head?
A… hat? People wear them when it’s cool/cold to keep their head warm?
LOL, it’s a Wampa hat my BIL got me for my birthday 🙂
Nice week! You got more bike rides in!! That’s exciting! Until I got on a road bike I used to think running in the wind was hard. You’re doing so great on all your runs. And what a Saturday for mileage!
IKR? The wind is much harder on the bike! How do you deal?! Just the noise makes me NUTS!
Thanks 🙂
You forgot to rest this week!
I know! I was planning to have Sunday off and run on Wednesday before class but that got all messed up. So… Sunday it was!
you had an awesome week of training!! and you ROCKED that long run!
LOVE the sign and hat! Does Mr Iladstudio have a luke skywalker hat?
Sorry to hear you had to go into work!!
Sigh. He is a Star TREK fan. I know, I know.
LOL! Don’t be sorry! I am happy I have a job and such great flexibility (usually)! I just wish I had more time to run before I catch the train… do you think I should get up at 2:30? 😉
That is totally the best race sign. I hope you got lots of fun comments.
Also, wind on the bike SUCKS. Someone told me once to put ear plugs in because it helps trick you into thinking it’s not that windy when you can’t hear it.
Thanks! I did! I was surprised a lot of people “got” it!
That is a good idea. The noise does make me really angry!
Dude those socks are shweeettttt!!!!!! Someone must really love you!!! LOL
I love your hat AND the sign!! Don’t worry about those haters ‘cos haters gonna hate yo!