Highlight of the Week: Participating in The Longest Day with an awesome group of people and raising money for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Monday | June 15, 2015: 5 m run (w/Kelly) + teaching strength class
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 71°/70°, Time: 49:13, Pace: 9:50 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: tired
Strength: Lebert – bodyweight & kettlebells, Difficulty: easy, Felt: okay, ready for a new mode
Tuesday | June 16, 2015: rest
Wednesday | June 17, 2015: 3 m run
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 62°/62°, Time: 28:57, Pace: 9:38 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: okay
Thursday | June 18, 2015: 7 m run (w/Kelly)
Loc: Grayslake, Temp: 62°/64°, Time: 1:09:56, Pace: 9:55 avg, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: too humid
Friday | June 19, 2015: teaching strength class + 4 m run (incl. 4×400)
Strength: Mixed Mode: Body Bars & One Dumbbell, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: hood, Temp: 59°/59°, Time: 38:49, Pace: 9:35, Difficulty: medium, Felt: good, but hot
Saturday | June 20, 2015: 45 m ride
Loc: Prairie Trail & Fox River Tail, Temp: 59°/70°, Time: 3:25:47, Pace: 13.1 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Sunday | June 21, 2015: 6.29 m run (Legs 1-2) + 8.95 m run (Legs 4-6) + 5.55 m (Leg 10) + .4 m (Leg 12)
Loc: Badger State Trail, Temp: 63°/68°, Time: 1:04:53, Pace: 10:19 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Badger State Trail, Temp: 68°/79°, Time: 1:41:58, Pace: 11:24 avg, Difficulty: hard, Felt: okay
Loc: Capital City Trail, Temp: 81°/82°, Time: 1:00:02, Pace: 10:49 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: pretty good
Loc: Downtown Madison, Temp: 85°, Time: 5:42, Pace: 14:14 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: way too hot
Notes:
- My calves and hamstrings were stupid sore Sunday-Tuesday. Luckily (???), Kelly’s were too, so I knew it was from the 5K! It was weird – I normally don’t get sore in those spots. Let’s just call it a good thing and say I was waking up muscles I don’t typically use as much when running.
- I kept the week pretty light because I didn’t know how many miles I’d end up running for The Longest Day relay. But I did get in a 45 mile bike ride, which was a lot of fun! And I saw another fawn, this time, with the mother deer. That is the third fawn I have seen in person this month!
- The Longest Day event to raise awareness and funds to fight Alzheimer’s was on Sunday. This year, Team Running to Remember did a 12-leg, 47 mile relay from Monroe to Madison, WI. I really enjoyed doing the event relay style, and that I got a chance to run with almost everyone (including a cool person I hadn’t met yet – Amy!)! I’ll share more when I’ve had a chance to process it… and have recovered from all the sun I got!
Hope your legs are feeling better! I’m impressed that you ran that well on sore legs. Glad you had a fun run on Sunday. Looks like it was a blast from the photos!
Thanks! They felt better by Thursday/Friday, thankfully! 🙂
Wow those last two legs must have sucked..that’s hot especially when already tired. Well done! Are you training for anything in particular right now? You are doing so good at keeping your weekly mileage pretty high, not jealous at all 🙂
Just the .4 mile one did, probably cause I had on a short sleeved shirt, lol!
I am not really training for anything. I have a 20 mile race coming up in July, but it’s a trail race for fun. I am trying to hit 2000 miles this year though, so I try to run around 166 miles a month 🙂
5k’s always hurt my muscles too, and not always the same ones. Running fast is hard!! Great week of training, as always! It’s always good to raise $ for a good cause!
Wow, good job on the relay and thanks for running for this cause!
You’re welcome! And thank you for your donation! 🙂
Running fast and is really tough on the legs! i am always amazed at how sore I can feel after 3 miles…
Your relay sounds fun and tough! Glad you didn’t have run to far when it was 85…boooo to the heat runs.
Umm, 45 miles on tired legs is pretty bad @ss 🙂
That relay sounds cool. I like that you guys got to run in an old tunnel! I hear you about the sore hamstrings. I have never had a problem with them, but they have been sore lately since I’ve been running 5ks and the mile race. I guess I need to workout opposing muscles so they won’t get so much strain when running fast?