Highlight of the Week: Adding in more daily strength training, and some cross training!
Monday | December 15, 2014: rest
Tuesday | December 16, 2014: 5 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 43°/42°, Time: 47:40, Pace: 9:32 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Strength: Kettlebells and UNO Core Workout, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good/strong
Wednesday | December 17, 2014: 6 m run/10 min strength+core
Loc: hood, Temp: 28°/28°, Time: 1:00:54, Pace: 10:09 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: decent
Thursday | December 18, 2014: 7 m run (w/Kelly)/10 min core
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 20°/20°, Time: 1:07:57, Pace: 9:42 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good! No wind! So warm!
Friday | December 19, 2014: teaching strength class + 7 m bike
Strength: Kettlebells and UNO Core Workout, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: spent, in a good way
Bike Time: 30:00, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, sore butt, ha ha
Saturday | December 20, 2014: 4 m run/10 min strength+core (w/Steven!)
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 28°/28°, Time: 38:43, Pace: 9:40 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: ok, not in the mood (started too late in the morning)
Sunday | December 21, 2014: 8 m run (w/Bobbi) + 8 m bike
Loc: Grant Woods FP, Temp: 32°/34°, Time: 1:30:52, Pace: 11:21 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Bike Time: 31:01, Pace: 15.5 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good (butt still sore)
Notes:
- I had an entire “what’s next?” post drafted out for this week, but felt meh about it. I’m not much of a goal-maker or sharer (as documented many times)*. The more I share a goal, the less excited/dedicated I become about it. Weird, right? Sharing goals is supposed to help you stick to achieving them and it does the opposite for me. Anyway. In future training posts, you will hopefully see notes with strength and/or core moves after a run, like on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday this week. That is something I am trying to incorporate – more strength training.
- Here’s a silly question – how do you keep your shirt tucked in to your pants when you run? Only a few of my running tights have drawstrings, and those seem to be the best at keeping my pants high and tight, with the shirt tucked in. So I have resorted to safety pins – one to fold the band over to keep the pants up, and one to secure the shirt to the pants (so it doesn’t come untucked and make my back cold). There must be a better way!
- This week Gina told me that someone at her running store was super excited she finished the marathon around 4:20, because she had told them that was the time she thought she would finish, and she was pretty much on the money. That made me wonder what we put for our estimated finish time when we signed up – 4:22! Also super close!
- Gina’s dad’s wife’s camera apparently has some feature that makes clips from photos and puts them in to a video! I have no idea how it works, but I downloaded her pics and stumbled across this video that shows a lot of their spectating experience. How cool! I like that the camera did the work of meshing all the clips together!
*I am also like, “who cares?” and “people don’t need to know everything I am doing” (even though you can see a list here).
I don’t tuck my shirt in! I’ve actually never even thought about it. It would drive me insane if it wouldn’t do what I wanted it to! So, I feel your pain.
Yeah, I just do it in the winter to try to keep the cold air off my back! In the summer I flow free. Hee hee 🙂
Girly you are putting me to shame! I’ve hardly run at all this week and here you are knocking out the miles…what a beast.
Pity you don’t do some online/virtual strength classes. I’d totally follow along. Hope you are enjoying the holidays if you are on vacation.
Aww, thanks! And there is NO shame in not running much the week after a race! At all! I just felt really good so I went for it (plus, I had to teach Tuesday night and I have found it helps to run before class if I’ve just run a marathon, to get the legs ready).
You said you were going to start with more strength soon, right? What are your plans?
Thanks! My holiday starts 12/24!!! 🙂 Are you off for awhile? 🙂
Post-Disney: x2 times a week some general toning classes in the university gym like body pump or kettle bells. Then at home I’m gonna try follow the running specific strength work I was doing before (jay Johnson series). And of course I’ll keep up yoga.We’ll see how that goes for a while then maybe I’ll invest the cash into a trainer 🙂 i justify all this with “it’s ok I’ll be running less miles” ha ha. I’ll be busier than ever.
I’m off for a solid two weeks yipeeeeee! The university doesn’t close a lot during the year so they dump all the extra days off into the Christmas holidays.
There is no good way to keep your shirt tucked into your pants! I swear I spent most of my run pulling my shit back down. Step, step, retuck. Step, step, retuck. It drives me nuts! I gave up on the safety pins after an emergency bathroom situation where my hands were too frozen to undo the safety pins.
Yes! That! It makes me nuts too! Then pulling it up to my crotch as well. I need suspenders.
Hee hee, when I was pinning it in I was just wondering when it was going to cause a bathroom issue 😉
Safety pins don’t sound very safe to me…
Ha ha ha! Ha!
Hey, I live life on the edge, I guess! 😛
The only time I am tucked is when I layer – I have compression t-shirt and a compression thermal shirt, which are long enough to allow my tights to go over them without creating any problems. Otherwise it is all outside. The problem comes into windy days and I don’t like the chill blowing up my shirt – which is why I started wearing the compression t-shirt – no added heat but solid wind protection. And we pretty much always have a 5-10 MPH wind here.
You know, I wonder if I just need tighter compression tops and if they would stay down better? I’ve lost some weight recently and maybe that is why they are rolling up. Thanks for making me think about it!
Jumping in here to say yes that is the reason why! Even if clothes aren’t obviously loose they won’t fit the same if you’ve lost weight. Watch out for baggy ass syndrome on jeans lol
I tend to crash and burn when making my goals public (See: trying to do sub-4 marathon), so I’m not going to do that anymore. Or else I’ll be annoyingly vague 🙂
Nice job! Glad you’re feeling well. Ha, love the video. I remember seeing that ‘touch here for power’ sign!
Yeah, like Mo said, when I post a goal, then crash and burn I then have to spend a post or two making excuses on why I didn’t hit it. Also, secret goals are much cooler.