Highlight of the Week: Working out with friends and a new 5K PR!
Monday | November 9, 2015: 1.7 m walk (w/Anne!) + 4 m run + teaching strength class
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 51°/49°, Time: 33:39, Pace: 8:24 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Strength: One Dumbbell and Bodyweight Stations, Difficulty: easy, Felt: so so
Tuesday | November 10, 2015: 11 m run + 3 m run (w/Bobbi!)
Loc: MT to Nippersink FP and back, Temp: 30°/39°, Time: 1:44:22, Pace: 9:29 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, once I woke up!
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 54°/54°, Time: 31:46, Pace: 10:35 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Wednesday | November 11, 2015: 15 m run
Loc: Around Round Lake, Temp: 47°/55°, Time: 2:26:48, Pace: 9:47 avg, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: out of it, annoyed in the wind – but too warm without it
Thursday | November 12, 2015: rest
Friday | November 13, 2015: teaching strength class + Full Moon 5K (incl. .6 m WU)
Strength: One Dumbbell and Bodyweight Stations, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Zion, Temp: 39°, Time: 21:49, Pace: 7:03, Difficulty: medium/hard, Felt: like I was working hard, but good
Saturday | November 14, 2015: 20 m run
Loc: Around Town, Temp: 26°/47°, Time: 3:30:13, Pace: 10:31 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: sore/tired from Friday, as expected
Sunday | November 15, 2015: 10 m ride + 10 mins strength + 3.3 m run
Indoor Ride Time: 46:02, Pace: 13.0 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Millennium Trail, Temp: 53°/57°, Time: 28:39, Pace: 8:39 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good, side stitch, too warm
Notes:
- I really should have written that the highlight of the week was getting a sports massage on Wednesday, because the massage felt AMAZING. I got it in preparation for a 5K PR attempt, and have another one scheduled for next month, the week of the Dallas Marathon (if I decide to run it – I will probably get the massage either way, ha!).
- This was a peak week in marathon training and my legs were a bit trashed for my two long runs. They didn’t hurt, I just didn’t have any pep in my step. Next week is a cutback week – phew!
- On Saturday, I hit my goal of running 2000 miles for a year! It’s nuts! When I thought of this goal at the end of December last year, and that I’d have to average 40 mile weeks, it seemed like a lot, but actually… it really hasn’t been! I wonder how many miles I’ll end with for the year!
What a great week and look at all those miles! But wasn’t the weather amazing for the frigging middle of Nov? I loved it!
The weather was really warm for November! A few times it felt too warm. I liked it when it was in the 20s and 30s on Saturday 🙂
I know, my long run this weekend was 65 and sunny. Too warm, I got used to it cooler!
5k PR!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo hoo! Congrats! So proud of you!
Thank you!!!!! 🙂 Hope you can come do this series sometime!
It’s funny to see the difference in your attire throughout the week!!
Ha ha! I wore a jacket for my Monday morning walk, and every run was in a tank, except the run on Saturday – I wore a t-shirt. 🙂
Our walk seems like such a long time ago! We need to do that again.
I meant to ask toy about the 5k today. Congrats on the PR!!
Yeah! Do you want to meet again next Monday? This week is stupid busy for me (downtown three days for training).
Thank you! I meant to ask how you’re running had been going, but didn’t want to interrupt the serious movie 😉
Look at that 5K time!! That’s so awesome. Great job!
Is it nice having more of the trail done now for your long runs?
Thanks!
Yeah – the connection helps. I ran that trail before, but when they were building the tunnel, the construction made it so I couldn’t get there by foot, so it’s really nice to get to it safely, now!
Congrats on hitting 2000; that’s awesome! Are you going to set the same or a different goal for 2016?
I didn’t realize you were running Dallas (or planning to). I must have missed that and thought you weren’t training for a long race right now. I was reading your stats for the week and thinking, “Wow, Kim runs SOOOO MUCH in her off season!” I mean, you do run a lot all the time haha.
Congrats on the 5K PR! Do you ever get a celebratory massage? Or just pre-race massages?
Yeah, I will probably set a different goal for 2016, if I have one at all 🙂
You didn’t miss it! This is the first time I have mentioned Dallas 🙂
Thanks! Just pre-race massages this season. Sometimes I get a post-race one though!