Training Week 359
Highlight of the Week: Hitting my mileage goal for the second week in a row! Doing a double!
Monday | August 29, 2016: 10 m ride + teaching strength class
Indoor Ride Time: 42:30, Pace: 14.1 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Strength: Kettlebells and Lebert Equalizer, Difficulty: easy, Felt: surprisingly good (just so sleepy lately!)
Tuesday | August 30, 2016: 7 m run + 10 m ride
Loc: Van Patten loop, Temp: 79°/81°, Time: 1:12:31, Pace: 10:21 avg, Difficulty: hard, Felt: so hot, so tired
Indoor Ride Time: 39:05, Pace: 15.4 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, sore butt
Wednesday | August 31, 2016: 3 m run
Loc: Chicago Lakefront Trail, Temp: 77°/75°, Time: 29:16, Pace: 9:44 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: windy, but enjoyed the breeze
Thursday | September 1, 2016: 6 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 69°/69°, Time: 57:58, Pace: 9:39 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good (right knee a still bit tender at start)
Friday | September 2, 2016: teaching strength class + 4 m run (incl. 4×400) + 5 m run
Strength: Kettlebells and Lebert Equalizer, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: hood, Temp: 70°/71°, Time: 38:48, Pace: 9:42, Difficulty: easy-ish, Felt: best during the intervals!
Loc: hood, Temp: 71°/71°, Time: 51:13, Pace: 10:14 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, minus almost bathroom emergency
Saturday | September 3, 2016: 15 m run
Loc: DPRT, Temp: 54°/69°, Time: 2:45:26, Pace: 11:01 avg, Difficulty: hard, Felt: low on energy (hungry), tired (legs)
Sunday | September 4, 2016: 7 m ride
Indoor Ride Time: 28:19, Pace: 14.8 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good on the legs!
Notes:
- I’ve been lazy with water on my runs, choosing to run with my handheld and running by fountains or places where I can buy water. My 7/8 mile loop has a fountain, but the water tastes so bad – like iron. On Tuesday’s run, I stopped there to fill it up, and it tasted even worse – like iron, but rotting. I took three sips then dumped my water bottle out (with 2.5 miles to go) to make sure I didn’t drink anymore. And I survived!
- Other stories from my runs this week:
- It cracks me up when I run by fenced in dogs and they get all excited and run “with” me. I much prefer this to loose dogs!
- During my Thursday run, I was leaving our neighborhood and someone was pulling out of their driveway, then stopped, and reversed when I ran by, to let me go by. I thought that was nice. Then he pulls up to me as I am running down the street and says “Did you see how I pulled back for you back there?” “Yeah, thanks!” I responded. “You know why I did that?” Oh geesh. Where is this going? “Why?” “Because people who exercise are A-OK with me!” Phew. Ha ha. Then he asked if I wanted to be a “skinny kid” and we had a short convo about how much we like food.
- I was doing a u-turn in the grass on my second Friday run and almost stepped right on a snake (like this one in the picture)! I felt bad that I almost did!
- I hate that some of the cyclists are so rude on the trails out here – mostly coming from behind and not calling out, then coming WAY to close to me (when I am running). During my run on Saturday, I had something new happen – I was running over on the right side of the trail, and a group of cyclists came toward, me around a corner, and decided to swarm on either side of me, instead of all go to my left – where there was PLENTY of space. They were all wearing matching jerseys and going FAST. That was a dick move. No other word for it.
- It cracks me up when I run by fenced in dogs and they get all excited and run “with” me. I much prefer this to loose dogs!
- Time for the August recap! In August I ran 107 miles, cycled 88.7 miles (8 indoor rides, 1 outdoor ride) and swam laps 4 times. My coldest outdoor run was 58°F and my warmest was 89°F. I taught 8 strength classes, and did 1 strength session at home. This was the first month of the year I didn’t teach any weekend classes (and with good timing, with all our house work). I’ll be back at it in September.
Themocracy
Ekk my ultimate nightmare (besides being bitten) is to step on a snake. It’s so easy to not see them until you are right on top of them.
Exactly! Hopefully they are always quicker than us!
That looks like a harmless (non poisonous snake), though either way, I’m sure you didn’t want to step on it.
Rude cyclists really upset me. Like, they give just normal bikers a bad name. The other day, I was biking home behind this guy who literally took his hat off and hit the windshields/tops of two cars pulled over in the bike line and yelled “BAD BAD BAD” at them. Like, dude, if you have a problem with it, just pull over and explain why (even though I’m pretty sure in CA, the bike lane is fair game for like…everything).
Yeah! I wasn’t worried about me, but about hurting him! 🙁
Yes – that – they make people think us other bikers are going to be dicks, too. WTF, dude. And so… he took his hat off, meaning not wearing a helmet? Lame.
I almost stepped on a huge toad last week when I was running at night! I am thankful I missed it because I do not want to know what it feels like :/
Holly the dog is very interested in frogs but I am always worried she is going to eat them so I pull her away!
I avoid biking on trails and paths because I don’t like to yell out that I am passing haha. I guess I am just lazy. But those cyclists sound like jerks. And you were running where you were supposed to be!
Oh gosh, no thanks! I wouldn’t want to know, either!
Yeah, that would be a mess to clean up!!!!!
Ha ha ha! It’s good you avoid them then! They were jerks – I was totally in the right spot and they were being way too aggressive around that corner. I see a group like that every time I use the trails out here on the weekends!