Training Week 208
Highlight of the Week: Running fun back to back races with friends on Saturday, and two runs with my BiL, Andrew!
Monday | October 7, 2013: 6 m run (w/Adam) + 10 m run (w/Bobbi) + teaching strength class + 1 m run (w/Jen2)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 46°/46°, Time: 54:03, Pace: 9:01 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good but sleepy
Loc: Grant Woods FP, Temp: 50°/57°, Time: 1:44:02, Pace: 10:24 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Strength: Kettlebells & Step + Boxing, Difficulty: easy, Felt: like a lot of fun!
Tuesday | October 8, 2013: 6.5 m run (w/Adam)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 44°/43°, Time: 59:39, Pace: 9:11 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: tired/ready for a rest day!
Wednesday | October 9, 2013: 15.15 m ride
Loc: Around town, Temp: 64°/67°, Time: 1:00:34, Pace: 15.0 mph avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: excited
Thursday | October 10, 2013: 7.6 m run (w/Adam) + 8.4 m run (w/Bobbi)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 46°/46°, Time: 1:06:22, Pace: 8:44 avg, Difficulty: moslty easy, Felt: good
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 53°/63°, Time: 1:24:05, Pace: 10:00 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Friday | October 11, 2013: teaching strength class + 3 m run (w/Andrew)
Strength: Kettlebells & Step + Boxing, Difficulty: easy, Felt: so humid
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 68°/66°, Time: 30:18, Pace: 10:05, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | October 12, 2013: 1.8 m run + Prairie State Half Marathon (w/Emily) + Dead Last 5K Run (w/Bobbi and Sara)
Loc: DPRT, Temp: 58°/69°, Time: 2:19:21, Pace: 10:40 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Loc: CLC, Temp: 64°, Time: 31:12, Pace: 10:26 avg, Difficulty: surprisingly challenging, Felt: good
Sunday | October 13, 2013: 10 m run (w/Andrew)
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 42°/54°, Time: 1:46:34, Pace: 10:39 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good
Notes:
- My neighbor, Jen2, came to my strength class Monday night! I love it when my friends/family drop in! It means so much to me! Andrew is going to come to my class tomorrow night. Muah ha ha…
- The marathon I am running is 4 weeks from today! Guess it’s time to start thinking about a goal! I have bonked every marathon I’ve done (there’s been 5 of them). I would like to just finish and feel good most of the time (goal #1). I know, that is a lot to ask. And really, I’d like to PR (goal #2). My Marathon PR is 4:38:35 from the 2011 Milwaukee Marathon. That’s a 10:37 pace. I could probably run a 10:00 pace, comfortably. Maybe faster. I have been working at losing some weight so I can run faster. You know. Since that is so much easier than speedwork (not).
- After a conversation with a friend. I’ve been thinking more about “secret races.” And I know I mentioned this, but I think people are just so surprised when they don’t know you are doing a race, because you haven’t broadcast it a thousand times on social media (like some people do). I think that can make it seem like you are keeping it secret, when really, you just aren’t telling everyone, asap, that you signed up for something. Those oversharers (says the oversharer, in most other areas of life) are making other people look like the are trying to keep things “secret”! Ha ha.
- Another new weekly mileage PR – 70.4! I wasn’t even going for a 70 mile week, then a few random unplanned runs got me there. Neat-o!
Themocracy
Looking forward to 4 weeks today. Time to do some more training. Half next week on the DPRT, might do a self-half the next day then one 17 miler left to do. Think I can finish.
You can totally finish! 🙂
I told you I don’t pay attention to what people look like, but I can’t help but notice how slim you are, you look very strong.
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70 miles this week! Nice work! I agree with the whole secret race thing. I was actually think about not really announcing the next races I do, but since I’m not racing much anymore I just get too excited about it and then overshare 🙂
It’s too bad you couldn’t find more time to run this week. I mean, only 3 runs on Monday? 🙂
Yeah, definitely agree with your point about broadcasting races on social media, else they seem secretive. My blog is pretty much the only place that I talk about running, so if you don’t follow that, it probably does seem like I just randomly do races that I haven’t talked about/prepared for. Or on the flip side, a friend just texted me yesterday to ask how my Grand Rapids training is going (presumably, because I wasn’t posting details of every long run on Facebook). Even though I dropped out of that one a few weeks ago…
Yeah – I am the same way! Mostly talk about it here! Aww, that was nice of your friend to ask! 🙂
What an impressive week, girl! I love the idea of a secret race. I’ve been contemplating it myself, especially coming back from a pregnancy with some lofty goals. Hmm:)
Of course, my instinct is to say “do share,” but if you are keeping it secret…
Such cool races, too!
I love it when you get in time on your bike 🙂 Duathlon next year??? 🙂
I hope to do some sort of race on my bike next year! 🙂
Running with friends/family is so much better than running alone! Glad you had such a social week! 🙂 As for secret races, I do a lot of those, just because I often don’t decide until last minute to do one.
That is how I have been with a few races too, lately! Or even forgetting they exist until right before then deciding to do them 🙂