Training Week 173
Highlight of the Week: Feeling awesome during my weekend workouts! I kind of had a stacked weekend*… and I felt fabulous!
Monday | February 4, 2013: cross + strength
Loc: home, bike trainer, Time: 50:00, intervals, Difficulty: medium, Felt: sweat dripping off me
Strength: Shred-It with Weights, Difficulty: medium, Felt: spent
Tuesday | February 5, 2013: 5 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 8°/10°, Time: 46:16, Pace: 9:15 avg, Difficulty: easy.medium, Felt: like I was flying
Wednesday | February 6, 2013: strength class + 6 m run (w/Bobbi)
Strength: kettlebells, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 32°/33°, Time: 1:04:06, Pace: 10:41 avg, Difficulty: easy (snowy and slow), Felt: great
Thursday | February 7, 2013: 6 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 32°/31°, Time: 1:07:56, Pace: 11:19 avg, Difficulty: easy (but super slick!), Felt: good
Friday | February 8, 2013: rest
Saturday | February 9, 2013: cycling class + GRC A Half with Heart
Loc: Essential Fitness LLC Multisport Club, Time: 50 mins, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: good
Loc: Libertyville, Temp: 30°/30°, Time: 2:11:27, Pace: 10:02 avg, Difficulty: medium (hills), Felt: great
Sunday | February 10, 2013: cross + 14.2 m run (w/Erin)
Loc: Millennium trail, snowshoeing, Temp: 30°/31°, Time: 49:13 (2 miles), Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Around Round Lake, Temp: 33°/34°, Time: 2:14:25, Pace: 9:28 avg, Difficulty: medium (more hills, RAIN!!!), Felt: great
Notes:
- Ha ha, my biggest struggle this week was getting a cold Tuesday night – and trying not to act too whiny about it at home, so Steven would not say anything about me continuing to work out. What can I say?! I love to workout! And I still do when I am sick, until it’s in my head. Do you ever try to “hide” how sick you are feeling from someone?
- Jube Jel Candy Hearts make good (and YUMMY) long run fuel! Do you use any unconventional fuel for your long runs?
- My running club put on a half for club members yesterday. It was the third in the “DIY Half” series, but my first to attend! We met at someone’s house, ran the 13.1, then had a fun party after with LOTS of food! We each paid $5 and had bibs and that cute medal in the “Saturday run” pic above. I can’t wait for the next one!
- One week until our relay in NYC! And two weeks to my first 5K of the year!
*Despite having snow since Thursday I couldn’t fit in snowshoeing until the weekend! Still gotta take that rest day…
Themocracy
Great week of working out and I’m glad you felt strong all through all of it! I hope you feel better soon :).
Thank you!!! 🙂 I am feeling much better than I was. So happy about that. NyQuil/DayQuil to the rescue!!!
Girl, you are always such an inspiration! Solid week!
Aww, thanks so much! <3
You seriously ran a half on Saturday then 14+ on Sunday? Overachiever!! Totally joking!! (well kinda…lol)
You make me feel lazy! But you’re so inspirational, I’ve kicked my training up a notch missy, so you watch out!
I have the same bike trainer! (I think) Mine is green like that too, the hubby bought it, he knows way more than I do about biking!
And I WISH I could go snow shoeing!!!
LOL!!! Don’t feel lazy. I… have an exercise addiction. Hopefully it is still on the harmless side, since I try to work out when my husband is busy… or sleeping. I try to still be social! I swear!
Do you have the Kinetic?! I love it! We should talk interval training ideas. I was sweating a ton Monday and Saturday, using it, and LOVED it!!!
Yes, that’s the name of it! We should talk interval training ideas!! I usually just get on there, but I need to be more aggressive! I’m usually on it at 5:45 am, so usually I’m just watching the news…bad, I know! I should just blare the music and ride!
What do you do? Do you go at certain mph for x minutes, then slow down for x minutes? Or do you watch your cadence? I tend to watch my cadence more.
And I ALWAYS sweat a ton on the bike!! Whoever says cycling is easy is crazy! I sweat as much as I do when I’m running!
Just getting on there is great!
My bike computer is not quite set up… lol. So I have been keeping it in the highest gear (I have a mountain bike, so 3) and have been going off of RPE (rating of perceived exertion). I definitely start with a warmup @1-2. Then kick it up to 3-4. And always end with that in reverse. In between, I do a lot of things. On Monday, I played music vids on my phone. During the chorus I was about a 5, then would kick it for the refrain – between 8-10. I also like to do drills like that where I kick it for the refrain, but stay in that gear – just increase cadence. Lots of fun playing around! Sometimes I time it too! Oh, and stand up and pedal for fun.
Yeah! Cycling can be a great workout!!!! It is what you make of it. You are kicking it too 😉
Sounds like you deserve that rest day!!! Glad you had an awesome week, that run with your groups sounds like fun:) I also pretend not to be sick , especially if it is just a cold and go running anyway.
Yay! I am not the only one! 🙂
Did you just set up your bike trainer? Are adding more cycling for a specific reason?
I’ve used it on and off this year 😉 I put it away when I am done using it… er, after a few days. I am trying to get more cross training in, so that my ratio of running to cross training is not 5/0 per week… maybe 5/2? Or 5/3 this week, lol!
I got a cold Tuesday, too, but didn’t do nearly as much running as you because of it. Are you running March Madness?!?!
I hope you feel better soon! 🙁
I’m not! Are you? I have never done that half 😉
I am. Tons of people from my club do it every year so I decided to sign up this year. It is in Cary…is that kinda near you? It always sells out super fast – I think this year was 10 minutes or something.
Cool! This will be your first time? I think Cary is very near me… near Crystal Lake? And I think that is so crazy how it sells out… and on New Year’s Day, right?! 🙂
It was so great to run with you yesterday!!! Thank you for braving the rain and running long with me even though you ran long on Saturday. You are such a strong runner. I bet all that cross-training is really helping, too.
It was such a blast! I hope we can fit more runs in together. Maybe we can hook up for your 20/22 whenever that is 🙂 I miss our long run time, lol.
Aww, thanks! 😀 😀 😀
You do so much! Very impressive.
As for non-traditional long run fuel, I ran with Swedish Fish once. They were really good.
So glad that you’ve been snowshoeing – looks like it was a great outing! How is the bike trainer working out? I keep wanting to buy one, but at the moment, it’s not too high on my list of “gear I want/need”.
The bike trainer is fantastic! I have had this one since summer of 2011. I get such a great workout from it, especially now with that slick on the bike! And I love that it’s fluid. And that I can adjust how firm it is against the tire. Have you ever tried one? 🙂
I haven’t ever tried a trainer (more evidence of the fact that I’m not a “real” cyclist!). I do think that I’ll invest in one eventually. At the moment, I do spin classes and ride outside, but I think that I’ll phase out the spin classes over time and switch to the trainer.