Training Week 254 & 255
Highlights of the Weeks: Running some speedy (for me!) miles with Yvonne | Getting a few runs in with Gina and Steve (and one with Dad)! | A stellar solo long run on the 7th
Monday | August 25, 2014: 3 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 81°/74°, Time: 29:02, Pace: 9:40 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: exhilarated
Strength: Lebert and 1 dumbbell, Difficulty: medium, Felt: sore in my knee from running in to a table
Tuesday | August 26, 2014: 5.2 m run (w/Yvonne) + 3.3 m run
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 68°/67°, Time: 50:13, Pace: 9:40 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: decent
Loc: hood, Temp: 66°/68°, Time: 34:35, Pace: 10:29 avg, Difficulty: hard, Felt: sluggish/ready for rest day
Wednesday | August 27, 2014: rest
Thursday | August 28, 2014: 5 m run (w/Yvonne)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 59°/59°, Time: 47:42, Pace: 9:32 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Friday | August 29, 2014: teaching strength class + 5 m run (w/Adam & Dawn)
Strength: Lebert and 1 dumbbell, Difficulty: medium, Felt: decent but tired (sleepy)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 69°/69°, Time: 54:37, Pace: 10:55, Difficulty: easy, Felt: mostly good
Saturday | August 30, 2014: 7 m run (w/Gina & Steve)
Loc: Guttenberg, Temp: 70°/71°, Time: 1:11:07, Pace: 10:09 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay
Sunday | August 31, 2014: 3 m run (w/Dad & Gina)
Loc: Guttenberg, Temp: 65°/67°, Time: 34:25, Pace: 11:28 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Monday | September 1, 2014: Benefit Classic Half Marathon (w/Gina & Steve)
Loc: Dubuque, Temp: 67°/73°, Time: 2:24:28, Pace: 11:04 avg, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: like my RPE was way too high
Tuesday | September 2, 2014: rest
Wednesday | September 3, 2014: rest
Thursday | September 4, 2014: 4.5 m run (first 3.5 w/Yvonne)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 72°/71°, Time: 41:34, Pace: 9:17 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good enough!
Friday | September 5, 2014: teaching strength class + 4.15 m run (w/Dawn)
Strength: Lebert and 1 dumbbell, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: tired/out of it
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 74°/74°, Time: 44:38, Pace: 10:44, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | September 6, 2014: 12 m ride + 2.4 m walk (w/Steven TO SEE KITTENZZZZ!!!!)
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 59°/63°, Time: 57:38, Pace: 12.5 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: happy I rode and didn’t run
Sunday | September 7, 2014: 21 m run
Loc: Around town, Temp: 53°/72°, Time: 4:02:23, Pace: 11:32 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: fantastic
Notes:
- Twice in this cycle I got caught in crazy storms! On August 25th, I got caught in the middle of a downpour and the route I took as part of my out and back flooded in 10 minutes! It was such a blast to run through the puddles! Then on September 4th a storm came in with hail and I got poured on, and beat down by hail for the last mile of my run. Exhilarating for sure! Have you ever run in the hail?
- August was my highest mileage month so far this year! Woo hoo! Let’s hope I keep the mileage up since I am registered for marathons in October and December. Hee hee. One way to do that is to start the month with a race!I loved that I could run a half on September 1st! I always feel motivated when I run the first day of the month.
- Friday the 5th marked one year that I have been teaching the Friday 5:00 am class at Efit! Schweet! In that time I’ve only missed once class, when I was out of town for my snister’s wedding. That’s 51 4:00 am Friday wake-up calls! Ha ha.
- During my long run today, I stopped to buy water for my Nathan vest and the gas station clerk was asking me all of these questions about it – what is it, how does it work, where can he get one. I was like “Aww, he must workout, too!” Then he’s like, “I am going to buy one and fill it with beer!” Ha. Ha ha ha.
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John has forever called it the “beer vest.” Haha!
I am so glad your long run was so good!
I’ve never run in hail. It sounds ouchie 🙂
LOL! I made sure to warn the guy that the bladder warns NOT to put things like beer in there 😉
Thanks!
I was laughing when I was running in the hail because during Monday’s half an acron hit me and I was all “OW!” and then the hail just made me laugh 🙂
LOL about the vest/beer story! So funny.
It doesn’t sound fun to get caught in hail for sure…that hasn’t happened to me yet. Ouch!
a beer vest, might work out pretty well. . . on a walk!
Just reading through your list made me tired, I think. You’ve been busy! Running in the hail sounds scary! With my luck I’d get hit with a big piece in the head. 😉 I got sprinkled on a couple of times last week when that cold front was making its way through, but no hail for me!
Bahaha, best gas station clerk ever!
And I have run in hail only once before and it was during a race that got called at mile 10 due to a tropical storm. The miles from 10 to 13 wer e under about 6 feet of water. We had to swim to our car after the race! It was intense!
Holy cow! That is crazy! Where was that race?