Highlight of the Week: Having my dad, brother, brother-in-law, and aunt accompany me on their bikes while I ran on Friday!
Monday | December 22, 2014: 5 m run + teaching strength class (sick)
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 35°/35°, Time: 50:05, Pace: 10:01 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay (getting sick)
Strength: Kettlebells + UNO Core Workout, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: hot & dizzy
Tuesday | December 23, 2014: rest (sick)
Wednesday | December 24, 2014: teaching strength class (sick)
Strength: Lebert Equalizer, One DB, and boxing, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Thursday | December 25, 2014: rest (sick)
Friday | December 26, 2014: 7 m run (w/Dad, Anthony, Will and Sue on their bikes)
Loc: George Wyth State Park, Temp: 34°/34°, Time: 1:10:29, Pace: 10:04, Difficulty: x, Felt: good! happy to be running!
Saturday | December 27, 2014: 11 m run (w/Dad on his bike)
Loc: Cedar Prairie Trail, Temp: 30°/28°, Time: 1:48:10, Pace: 9:50 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, annoyed w/wind 2nd half
Sunday | December 28, 2014: 10 m bike/10 min strength
Bike Time: 38:58, Pace: 15.4 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good (bored, ha ha)
Notes:
- I started getting a scratchy throat and dry cough on Sunday the 21st, and my first thought was “No! This can’t be happening to me again!” I had the flu last year from Christmas to New Year’s Eve and it really set me back with my fitness (and ruined a lot of my enjoyment of the holidays). This time though, the cold seemed to be on a rapid path, which was FINE by me. Instead of having days with certain symptoms like I normally do, I went through symptoms on a day basis and felt mostly better by Wednesday! Yay!
- But… I still took it pretty easy all week to play it safe. I am looking forward to exercising more next week!
Now that’s how you stay active through the holidays…oh and while sick too! What are your normal weeks like? LOL.
Ha ha ha 😛 I usually work out 6 days a week, with one full rest day. This week felt odd, but it was good to get some rest! 🙂
Sorry you are sick 🙁 I love those gloves. Feel better this week!!
Thanks! They’re from Gone for a Run. Do you ever order anything from that site? Sometimes they have super cute stuff (and sometimes you’re just like… huh?! ha ha).
So glad you are feeling better!!!!
Thanks! 🙂 Hope you are feeling better soon, with your injury!
Thanks, Kim!
The best thing you can do when you’re sick is rest…hope you’re feeling better soon!
Thanks! I am feeling pretty good. Just a bit of coughing left 😉
I’m sorry you’ve been sick and I’m glad it seems to just be a short lived thing. You had a great week regardless!
Thank you 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Yuck, I’ve heard so many people being sick this month 🙁 I’m glad it didn’t last too long! That sounds like so much fun to have your family go along on their bikes while you ran!
I have heard that too! Seems something was going around for the holidays. Bleh!!!!
It was really fun. I wish we could do that more often!
I am glad the sick didn’t get you too bad! I love you had bike support, doesn’t that make it fun 🙂 Yaaa, for happy runs!
It really did make it fun! I am looking forward to at least two more runs with my dad on his bike this week! 🙂
I always get worried an illness will knock me off course too. You did the right thing by taking it easy.
Sorry that you were sick but glad it didnt last long! It seems like everyone has been getting sick around this time of year!
Happy New Year, Kim! What a bummer to hear about the scratchy throat and dry cough – but glad that you recovered quickly. When I was in college, I always used to get sick right around the holidays, too. I think it was because of the stress of finals and everything leading up to the holidays – and then when your body has time to relax a bit, the cold bug catches up. I think a lot of the same cycle still happens now, too.
I think that is definitely it! Totally a bummer time for it to happen, right? I have only had the flu two times in my adult life, and it was Christmas 2013 and right after finals in 2003! Hopefully we can avoid that in the future!
Glad that the sick didn’t last long. Look after yourself in this cold period of the year. In Italy a lot of people are sick now. Happy new year and …. run strong!
Thanks! I will! I bundle up pretty well and really enjoy running in the cold… it’s the low wind chills that make me bonkers!!!