Training Week 176
Highlight of the Week: Seeing that my body has responded well to increased mileage – no aches or pains!
Monday | February 25, 2013: 6 m run + 5 m run (w/Anne and Sara)
Loc: hood, Temp: 18°/18°, Time: 1:00:40, Pace: 10:07 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: slow and steady
Loc: Vernon Hills, Temp: 36°/34°, Time: 58:52, Pace: 11:46 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: tired-o
Tuesday | February 26, 2013: 15 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 32°/31°, Time: 2:20:07, Pace: 9:21 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: tired from no sleep
Wednesday | February 27, 2013: strength class + 3.1 m run (w/Ed)
Strength: circuit + plyo, Difficulty: medium, Felt: strong
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 31°/32°, Time: 27:56, Pace: 9:01 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: great
Thursday | February 28, 2013: 11.15 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 31°/31°, Time: 1:58:50, Pace: 10:40 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: slow in the snow + slush
Friday | March 1, 2013: 6.75 m run (5.5 w/Abbi!)
Loc: Chicago Lakefront Trail, Temp: 28°, Time: 49:34, Pace: 9:01, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good
Saturday | March 2, 2013: rest
Sunday | March 3, 2013: 5 m run inlc. 6×3:00 + strength (w/Steven!)
Loc: hood, Temp: 29°/31°, Time: 44:10, Pace: 8:50 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: meh
Strength: dumbbells, Difficulty: easy, Felt: schweaty
Notes:
- Ignore the blatant over training that is the first four days of the week. I was just trying to achieve that 200 mile month.
- My energy bubble finally burst Friday night. The early mornings, long miles and poor diet finally caught up with me, and I was a zombie at 6:00 pm Friday night. I could barely keep my eyes open!
- Logic says to sleep more, but I’m having issues with that. And, I am all out of sorts when I don’t get my morning run in. Like bigtime cranky biotch. So, I’ll pay attention to this and see how it goes.
- As much as I love those morning runs though, I am still adjusting to figuring out how much I should eat the rest of the day. I tend to get more snacky if I run first thing in the am – anyone else this way?
- I’ll probably write more about this, but feeling good is so much better than eating junk and feeling like crap. I just need to remember that. Eating a few junky things really throws me off for a few days, and that happened to me at the end of this week.
- I ran in the sun on Sunday and it felt so weird. I think I am so used to the dark and/or gloomy skies that I prefer those. I actually said something to Abbi during our Friday run about how I liked how gloomy it was, and I think she thought I was nutso. I think I just don’t want to accept that spring is on the way. I’m struggling with it.
Themocracy
Sunday Strength pic – Fierce. I love.
Fab 15 miler!
YESSS – when I run in the morning, I can NOT stop eating the rest of the day. I don’t have that problem with a run after 5/6pm..but those early morning runs trigger that hunger!
Ha ha! Thanks! I was making lots of silly poses while my husband took pics 🙂
WHAT is with the morning hunger?! Do you tend to run at night on the week days?
Love the “Wednesday Strength” pic with the balls!!! HA!!
I do tend to eat more if I work out early morning too. When I strength train, I’ll eat more the next day, which is weird. I don’t know why that happens. When I do snack, I try to be mindful, so I’ll pack healthy snacks for work, and I have to be sure to pack plenty on a post strength day!!
And might I add, your arms are FAB!!!!
HA HA HA! Happy you like the balls pic! I posted a more PC one on Facebook, but made my trainer take that one too.
Thanks, re: my arms 🙂
You know, that delayed to a day later thing happens to me too, after strength or a really long run. Is it okay if I eat 1000 oranges?!
Totally okay to eat 1000 oranges!!! (better than 1000 Oreos!!!)
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one! Now that you mentioned it, it happens the day after a long run too! Maybe it’s just our body trying to catch up! I’m not typically too hungry the day of a hard workout. Are you?
Ahh! Have you tried the Mega Stuf oreos yet? We bought a bag of regular and golden!
I get snacky the day of a hard workout, then that “OMG MUST EAT ALL THE THINGZ” feeling the day after. Usually. I guess it is changing all the time.
FIrst off, great to see you Saturday! And great job with the miles…
I couldn’t agree more-after all I ate Saturday it KILLED my stomach and I felt like crappola until just a while ago. <3 Hope you have a great week!
It was great to see you too! I was thinking last night how fab it was to talk for so long! Let’s get together at Bobbi’s more! LOL 🙂
LOL! Did we both overdo it? Hee hee hee. How did Brian feel? Did he get that 7-hour workout in? Here is to a healthier week for both of us! (Although, there was a wonderfully healthy spread, I just love me some salty carbs too!).
That is quite a week you put in no wonder you were exhausted by 6pm on friday!! Sounds like you need some Vit D even if you think you don’t:)
Hee hee hee. I bet I do. I have some D pills I can take too! Thanks for the reminder!
That’s quite the week!! I didn’t think you were nuts but honestly think you are the first person I’ve ever met that likes that kind of weather!
Maybe I belong in Seattle?
So so happy we got to meet up. That made my day 🙂 I hope you had a nice trip home! And good last day of training!
Did the ZZZZZZ quil work for you?
Yes- i eat all healthy and feel great, then bow to a day of “binging” on crap and pay for it a few days… UGH
Cheers to another week!
Oh gosh! I was so tired I ended up not taking it, and slept until 9:00 on Sat (okay, I woke up like, 3 time to use the bathroom, and Data kept meowing in my face, but yay! I was able to sleep!).
Why do we do that to ourselves! It’s so NOT worth it. I gotta remember that.
(I mean, it would be worth it in Brasil, but not on junk in my pantry! I can have that whenever I want!)
I’ve been trying to eat more protein – at meals and in snacks – and I feel like it makes a difference with how snacky I am. Also, after a snack I try to make myself drink a mug of tea first before I snack more to see if I’m really hungry or not.
That’s so cool that you got to meet up with Abbi.
I’ve eaten kind of crappy all weekend and am feeling it today. I have been really good with food for the first two months this year and took the weekend off to celebrate my anniversary but man am I looking forward to feeling better by eating better.
I only ran 6 miles yesterday, but I felt really tired afterward. I think the sun zapped my energy! Jerky sun.
Ha ha ha! Yes! That must be it! Jerky sun!
I remember back when I was a lifeguard, my first day back was always the worst. All day long in the sun … I was SO zapped.
Great week! I’m an exclusive morning runner and to avoid feeling extra snacky all day, I front load my calories. I eat a little something before I work out, have a BIG breakfast, and then eat normally during the day (although lunch tends to be bigger than dinner). If I’m doing a two-a-day (rare), I’ll eat a small snack before the evening workout. I find eating more earlier helps prevent the extra hungry feeling later on!
I think I need to try to do that more. I definitely have the big breakfast and lunch down, it’s just tricky at night when Steven wants to have a bigger dinner and I have eaten so much earlier!
I’m so rarely a morning runner that I haven’t noticed a difference in my hunger level. In fact, on Friday after I ran in the AM I wasn’t really hungry all day. Weird, huh?
That is weird! It’s an appetite suppressant for you!