Training Week 307
Highlight of the Week: Surviving!
Monday | August 31, 2015: 5 m run + 7 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 71°/75°, Time: 49:53, Pace: 9:58 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good, but spent
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 74°/75°, Time: 1:11:14, Pace: 10:15 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, but soooo sweaty/hot
Strength: Soft balls and dumbbells mixed mode, Difficulty: easy, Felt: hyper
Tuesday | September 1, 2015: 11 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail to Nippersink FP, Temp: 69°/69°, Time: 2:05:42, Pace: 11:25 avg, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: horribly sweaty and gross
Wednesday | September 2, 2015: rest
Thursday | September 3, 2015: 4 m run (incl. 3×800) + 20 min ride
Loc: hood, Temp: 82°/82°, Time: 39:01, Pace: 9:45 avg, Difficulty: hard, Felt: like I was melting
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 87°/87°, Time: 20:00, Pace: 12.3 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good (but why so windy?)
Friday | September 4, 2015: teaching strength class
Strength: Soft balls and dumbbells mixed mode, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good
Saturday | September 5, 2015: 6.4 m run (w/Gina)
Loc: Guttenberg, Temp: 71°/73°, Time: 1:09:32, Pace: 10:52 avg, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: no bueno
Sunday | September 6, 2015: 5 m run (w/Gina & Steve) + OWS
Loc: Guttenberg, Temp: 74°/73°, Time: 48:53, Pace: 9:46 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Notes:
- Summer returned in full force this week and it affected my runs BIG TIME. I started and ended my week with decent runs, but the ones in between were horrible, with my worst one of the summer being on Saturday. Gina and I headed out for 10 miles and I had to call it quits just after 6. Beyond being drenched in sweat, I felt like my equilibrium was WAY off. It didn’t help that I hadn’t eaten much since breakfast the day before (and had thrown up my breakfast that afternoon). It really didn’t make sense to still try for 10 miles, but of course, I wanted to. I started to feel better on Sunday, and hopefully will feel back to normal this week (and maybe some of the nasty humidity will go away!). I was frustrated about feeling so crummy this weekend though – I’ve been waiting all summer to run with Gina and Steve in Guttenberg, and I couldn’t enjoy it as much as normal since I felt so blah.
- Ha, that “OWS” (open water swim). On Sunday, we decided it would be fun to float down the river, which we’ve done a few times before. But there were such strong winds that we were either floating in place or being pushed upstream! So we created a floating caravan and I pulled a few people down the river. That definitely counts for cross training, right?!
- Time for an August training recap! I ran 207.3 miles and cycled 47.6 in August. I taught 10 strength classes and swam 3 times (and one of those swims was part of a relay triathlon team!). This was the first month I didn’t teach any weekend classes at the studio, but I am scheduled for one in September. September will probably be similar to August, other than that. And hopefully it will include some cool weather runs!
Themocracy
I’m sorry you weren’t feeling great. Down with humidity!! I can slowly see the temperatures dropping into the 80s here but that humidity won’t go away just yet
The humidity was so oppressive!! I hated it! I’m so ready for fall! I really struggled with my runs last week as well. I’m really hopeful for a better week and better long-run this week.
Love your cross-training 😉