Highlight of the Week: Swimming all freestyle at the pool / winning a 5K.
Monday | October 10, 2016: teaching strength class
Strength: plates and BOSUs, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Tuesday | October 11, 2016: 10 m ride + 7 m run
Indoor Ride Time: 39:15, Pace: 15.3 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: up Kilbourne and back, Temp: 72°/72°, Time: 1:10:04, Pace: 10:00 avg, Difficulty: easy until the last mile, Felt: good, minor stomach ish
Wednesday | October 12, 2016: 4 m run
Loc: Lakefront Trail, Temp: 69°/68°, Time: 38:52, Pace: 9:42 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Thursday | October 13, 2016: rest
Friday | October 14, 2016: teaching strength class + 1,218 yd swim + Cory’s Full Moon Run 5K
Strength: plates and BOSUs, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good, playful
Loc: FitNation, Moving Time: 30:00, Pace: 2:28 min/100 yd, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Loc: Zion, Temp: 62°/59°, Time: 23:53, Pace: 7:42 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: controllable, racing the right pace
Saturday | October 15, 2016: 5.9 m run + 5 m run
Loc: hood, Temp: 56°/57°, Time: 1:03:52, Pace: 10:49 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good to do a shakeout!
Loc: Lake Andrea, Temp: 66°/66°, Time: 51:53, Pace: 10:22 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good!
Sunday | October 16, 2016: 6 m run + 2,079 yd swim
Loc: hood, Temp: 67°/70°, Time: 1:03:51, Pace: 10:38 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: SUPER PISSY
Loc: FitNation, Moving Time: 53:56, Pace: 2:36 min/100 yd avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great, calmed
Notes:
- My busy week last week left me really tired for this week! Hopefully I’ll be back at it on Monday!
- I was able to do freestyle for my entire swim on Friday and Sunday, woot woot! I think swimming at least two times a week will allow me to continue improving.
- That 5K left my legs TRASHED! Ouch! I am going to email my massage therapist while I’m thinking of it.
- I was SO mad about how muggy it was during my Sunday run. It’s the freaking middle of October! I’m f*cking over it! And after I was so pissed at that, I saw that during the few minutes I was gone for my run, some a-hole dumped a television on the street by my house. Grr.
- But my swim after the run calmed me. Swimming really forces me to focus and relax on what I am doing, which is why I love to do it (even though I am not that good and have no plans to do a triathlon).
I am so with you on being OVER this heat and humidity. We’ve suffered long enough – it’s time for a break with the summer weather!
Yes! I was thinking about you during my run on Sunday and how you wrote that post that you were enjoying running again… just to have THIS happen! I was seriously more pissed on Sunday about the weather than I was during any run this summer! And it was even warmer here yesterday. Blah.
UGH yesterday’s weather annoyed me too. I was going to go for a run but downgraded to a long walk because it was so gross. Glad you could swim after to cool off 🙂
Yeah, screw that! My run distance got chopped because of the mugginess! Not worth it!
That’s interesting about the swimming being able to calm you. That makes sense that you love to do it when it has that effect 🙂
Yeah! I am happy it does! I am so unskilled that I really have to focus so I don’t breathe in water, and I think it’s one of the rare instances where I am only thinking about one thing!