Highlight of the Week: Teaching a fun boxing class (and getting to use the BOSUs!)!
Monday | April 13, 2015: 3 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 64°/64°, Time: 28:24, Pace: 9:27 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: really good
Strength: medicine balls, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good!
Tuesday | April 14, 2015: 8 m run (w/Kelly)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 38°/37°, Time: 1:16:55, Pace: 9:37 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, minus chafing aftermath
Wednesday | April 15, 2015: rest
Thursday | April 16, 2015: 4 m run
Loc: Chicago Lakefront Trail, Temp: 43°/44°, Time: 35:32, Pace: 8:56 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Friday | April 17, 2015: teaching strength class + 15.4 m run (w/Kelly)
Strength: medicine balls, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Grayslake/Round Lake loop, Temp: 75°/75°, Time: 2:36:10, Pace: 10:09, Difficulty: easy then hard, Felt: good for 10, awful for the rest
Saturday | April 18, 2015: teaching fitness boxing + 7 m run
Strength: boxing and body weight workout (BOSU), Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: from Efit to home, Temp: 56°/59°, Time: 1:12:57, Pace: 10:25 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: okay, but tired!
Sunday | April 19, 2015: 10 m run (incl. 3×2) + 10 m bike
Loc: hood, Temp: 51°/58°, Time: 1:30:31, Pace: 9:03 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: frustrated
Bike Time: 40:52, Pace: 14.7 mph avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: blah
Notes:
- Oh my gosh, I was SO SORE from the strength class I taught on Monday. Sorer than after the ultra! My class had done a circuit workout that I couldn’t participate 100% in the previous three weeks, and going back in, full force on Monday night really tore me apart! People who saw me in the office were asking what was wrong with me. Ha ha, oops!
- Thursday was my first run in the city this year. I wonder how many I will have this year… or if I’ll do a Chicago race. Right now, none are on the radar, and that’s okay with me.
- Kelly and I did our long run Friday afternoon this week, instead of our normal Tuesday morning. Which meant we got to run in the daylight together! And… it also happened to be the hottest day of the year thus far – 75° (and luckily not very humid). I started out the run feeling optimistic about the heat, and actually felt good for 10 miles but totally fell apart at the end. I am a horrible warm weather runner – I felt like I was going to throw up, had a hard time breathing, and felt like my skin was burning (it was – I can’t find the right sunscreen for me for running so I don’t wear any). I felt bad during the end of the run, and bad for being so whiny/out of it to Kelly (ha ha, I snapped at her about her change banging around in her handheld (which we laughed about later))… but not bad about the run. This is what happens to me at the “first” warmer run. The shallow breathing is not new, and neither is the sun-sick feeling. I have to slow way the eff down, or, run in the dark. Hopefully the half marathon isn’t warm like that!
- The crummy long run made me dread my last two runs of the weekend – running home from Efit on Saturday, and speedwork on Sunday. I made sure to keep it slow on Saturday, and that helped. But speedwork, ugh. The wind was annoying (of course… broken record here), someone thought the water bottle I left by a bench to grab during recoveries was trash and threw it away (so ironic, since Steven and I hate litter… I’ll leave a note on the bottle next time), and the same person’s dog ran in front of me later and his leash wrapped around my legs and almost tripped me. And that was all in the first repeat! I felt a bit jacked up after that and ran my next mile too fast, then felt blah for the end. Eek! Wah wah wah! Ha ha. That run was a good reminder that speed work typically feels best the day after rest day… and that if I want to run repeats on the half mile loop at the park, I need to be really cautious of all the people walking their dogs (including one guy who had his dog off leash later on… wth?!).
- I’ve cycled every week this year… but indoors! Hope I get outside soon!
- Let’s talk about something fun after all that whining! Gina’s birthday was on Saturday and as part of her gift I signed us both up for a really hilly half marathon in Missouri that my brother-in-law is also running. It’s odd, but I am looking forward to doing a lot of hill-focused training after the Wisconsin half!
Ah jeeze, sorry that you got sun sick 🙁 It’s so hard to gauge what to wear and how to hydrate/fuel when the weather is significantly different. I felt off after my saturday run. Probably from lack of salt and I started snapping at people on the lakefront for running 2+ across and walkers taking up the entire width of the sidewalk. I feel your pain 🙂
I hope you get to cycle outside soon!
What a cool present for you and Gina- the hills could be fun. 🙂
I got the clothes and fueling right during the run… but I think I went in to it dehydrated (weighed way too much less the next day!). Even all weekend, I wasn’t peeing much! Eek! Did you take any water or fuel for your LR? In the winter I can get away running 10 without it (even though I shouldn’t) but not when it’s hot.
Heh heh, did you have to push those people out of the way?! 😉
I think the hills will be fun! It won’t be a time-goal race, just want to feel strong on them! 🙂
I tried a new class today and I expect to be sore tomorrow. I figure if I’m not, it’s a miracle.
LOL! I’d definitely be surprised if I wasn’t! What kind of class was it?
The weather is gonna be a huge issue for me this year I’m afraid. This is the time I should be acclimating to the warming temperatures, but I’m still out of the game. 🙁 It’s gonna be hot by the time I get to run again and I’m just gonna have to dive right in after having not run since February. I may as well just count myself out till the fall!
I would say do early mornings to get used to it, but you do all your runs after work, right? I hope you can still acclimate!
Sorry you had a hard time with the warm weather! It’s funny – I love warm weather for running but I hate being out in the cold. I ran my first organized race yesterday since I took time off running for my hip and it was a blast – the good weather really added to my enthusiasm!
Oh my gosh!!! Your first race! Yay! That is awesome! I can’t wait to hear about it! Was it a 5K?
Happy Birthday to Gina!
Sorry you had some craptastic runs. I guess we were both due after how well last weekend went. haha. This week WILL be better!
and yay BOSUs!!!!
I think I was due for it! And I think my body is like “can we just get all this training OVER with and CHILL?!” 🙂
The BOSUs were fun, as predicted. I should use them more… 😉
Oh god, I know that feeling of sun sickness and it is the WORST. That sucks that you haven’t been able to find a suncreen that works for you while running. It’s a good thing that you do most of your runs in the early morning when it’s less of an issue.
Happy birthday to Gina!!! Which half in MO are you running!?!?!? Yay for a new training challenge with all the hills!!!
It really is! And it’s actually kind of scary when your breathing is all out of control and your stomach feels so weird and hot! I have tried so many sunscreens – lotions, spray ons, whatever. They all make me feel SO horrible. I think I really need to set up an appt with a dermatologist to see how much I am damaging my skin 🙁
We are doing the Hospital Hill Half!
I think the first few weeks of warm weather is a hard adjustment. I always feel a bit grumpy because I can’t accept that I need to slow down ha ha
Ha ha ha, exactly!!! And it takes awhile to get your body used to a slower pace!
Yuck, sorry about the hard runs this week! I was finding the weather transition hard too. But at least the first one is behind you and hopefully it will get better from here on 🙂
Oh yes! It totally will! I learn quick from a crappy run, ha! 😀
It’s that darn sun. I can run hotter in the shade but there were no clouds in the sky and that sun was just brutal! Sorry it hit you, time for more twilight runs for sure.
Whenever the rare cloud would block it, it felt so good! Ha ha! Time to start doing LRs on the DPRT!
I should do that too but how do you keep the gravel out of your shoes?!
I wear gaiters. https://www.facebook.com/DirtyGirlGaiters
Well, I’m red. I didn’t know that’s what those were for. That’d be a lot more comfortable.
Thanks!
You’re welcome! That is what Rachel and I used for our ultra, on a similar trail, and that is what I use on technical runs. I am usually too lazy to use them on the DPRT, cause I don’t mind stopping to remove rocks, but they saved us a lot of stops on the ultra – we had no rocks in our shoes and other people not wearing gaiters said they did 🙂
Weather is such a pain in the butt! Heat is a killer. Also, where in MO!? I’m down in St. Louis!
Aww! I didn’t know you are in StL! This race is in KCMO 🙂 I am also doing a KCK race in July 🙂
I’ve cycled outside 3 times so far this year! Matt and I went out yesterday for 2 hours and he got just a little bit of sunburn! Oops, guess we should remember to put that on too! We had our arm warmers on for the first little part of the ride too!
Good for you! Are there good trails by your new place?
There are lots of low traffic county roads! Plus we are really close to the Udder Century route, I just have to figure out how to get on it!
Oh schweet! Are you doing Udder this year?
Maybe. We got invited to a wedding that weekend but I’m not sure if we are going or not yet.
Hope the sun sick passed quickly!!! It’s definitely an adjustment, although we’re back in the 40’s today so who the heck knows, LOL!!!
I felt better by Monday! 🙂 And I am so happy it went back in to the 40s, even though it was so windy! I hope it’s not sunny and warm for my race!
I have quite a time in heat. My first few summers running i had some bad episodes until I tried the Galloway method. I just couldn’t handle feeling that bad, I had a very hard time taking the walk break at first, but I have learned to appreciate it now. I tell myself it’s not forever, but summer is long here, so I will often get in the dark just to run with out stopping even if it is slow!!
I use Clarins 30 sunscreen it works for me, maybe you talk a makeup girl out of a sample and try 🙂
You had a tough week with runs, so that means some happy ones are coming! I had to chuckle a kick boxing class made you more than your ultra! That’s a tough work out.
Yes! Walk breaks or slowing down are KEY. When it gets in the 90s or over 100, I run in the heat and take a break almost every mile or half mile. I should look for that sunscreen. A sample is a good idea… I don’t want to waste any more money on stuff that makes me feel horrible when I am running! 🙂