Highlight of the Week: Giving it a go at the Wisconsin Half and learning a lot about myself as a runner / running someplace new.
Monday | April 27, 2015: 5 m run (incl. 6×400) + 15 m bike + teaching strength class
Loc: hood, Temp: 50°/51°, Time: 43:00, Pace: 8:36 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Bike Time: 1:02:32, Pace: 14.4 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay (but sore butt!)
Strength: medicine balls, Difficulty: easy (mostly observing), Felt: good
Tuesday | April 28, 2015: 5 m run
Loc: White River Trail (Indy), Temp: 63°/62°, Time: 50:19, Pace: 10:04 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: happy to explore!
Wednesday | April 29, 2015: rest
Thursday | April 30, 2015: massage! felt so good!
Friday | May 1, 2015: teaching strength class + 3 m run
Strength: medicine balks, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: hood, Temp: 56°/56°, Time: 27:18, Pace: 9:05, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | May 2, 2015: Wisconsin Half Marathon (first 7+ w/Kelly)
Loc: Kenosha, Temp: 49°/65°, Time: 2:06:16, Pace: 9:38 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: meh, then better when I slowed
Sunday | May 4, 2015: 2 m photography walk w/Steven
Notes:
- After weeks of doing mile repeats and longer tempo workouts, it was refreshing to do some 400s on Monday. Dare I even call it… fun?!
- I forgot to mention this in my post about Indianapolis – it was such a nice surprise to see trees with leaves there! We don’t have much of that here, yet.
- Except the disgusting stinky trees that bloom in the spring in my neighborhood and make me gag as I run by them. Does anyone else have these trees around?
- When people say they’ve lost a toenail, to they mean it actually fell off on it’s own, or they removed it themselves (because it was no longer attached)? Because when I say it, I mean the latter.
- I had my road bike tuned up this week! Now I am all ready to ride outside! Let’s do this thing!
- I slept on my right side, with my right leg straight and left leg knee bent. Last week I woke up with a really sore right shoulder, and it’s still been a bit sore this week. I just figured it was from strength class, but maybe it’s from sleeping on it? And that makes me think that sleeping with my legs like that probably isn’t good for me either!
- Friday was my 100th run of the year! I’ve never tracked my workout stats this closely and it’s fun finding out random things like that.
- April recap time! I ran 180.2 miles in April, and (indoor) cycled 50.5. I taught nine strength classes and one fitness boxing class. I did one strength session on my own. Weekend classes really quieted down in April. I bet May and the summer will be similar.
Wow, 100 runs this year huh? I am curious to know how many I have. Are those trees the ones that smell like fish?
Hmm, they smell like something rotting, that’s for sure! Do they smell like fish to you? I know these trees are in Chicago, too.
If they’re the same trees you are referring to in this post then yes it does. My kids love to bring flowers to me which I think is sweet. However, one day I noticed a fishy smell and realized the smell came from the flowers. I don’t have the heart to tell them not to bring me more flowers.
We have a lot of trees here in bloom, too, but none that smell like fish!
awesome mileage 🙂 i love tracking workouts for that very reason, it’s fun to see what you accomplished!
I will get sore shoulders when I sleep on my stomach with arms overhead, I guess that pressure on them isn’t good.
We have some kind of stinky green bush that is blooming now…smells ick.
I think those are the same trees I smelled near the Prairie Trail on Sunday. After we finished biking and were standing by our cars to leave (and near some trees) I kept smelling something unpleasant and at first I thought maybe it was me even though it wasn’t a normal to me smell. Then I got closer to the tree and realized that was where the smell was coming from! Gross!
On the Pentacrest and the Univ. of Iowa there is a gingko tree and the little fruits smelled so so bad. And they would fall on the sidewalk and everyone would step on them. Ugh. I don’t do smells!
Ha! That is too funny that you thought it was you for a sec! Nope! The nasty trees!
So they smell AND they are a tripping hazard?!
The fruits are roughly the size of a large grape so not really a tripping hazard.