Highlight of the Week: Running around Lake Monona with Rachel!

Monday | February 18, 2019: teaching strength class
Strength: plates and soft balls, Felt: good, seemed like students were having fun!

Tuesday | February 19, 2019: 4 m run
Run location: Chicago Lakefront Trail, Temp: 26°/30°, Time: 39:24, Pace: 9:49 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: awesome!
Wednesday | February 20, 2019: 7 m run
Run location: hood, Temp: 34°/35°, Time: 1:13:52, Pace: 10:33 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Thursday | February 21, 2019: 3 m run
Run location: Chicago Lakefront Trail, Temp: 35°/34°, Time: 28:48, Pace: 9:35 avg, Difficulty: good, Felt: great
Friday | February 22, 2019: teaching strength class + 14 m run (w/Rachel)
Strength: plates and soft balls, Felt: good
Run location: Lake Monona Loop, Temp: 31°/34°, Time: 2:32:07, Pace: 10:52, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good until the last few miles (should have taken another gel!)

Saturday | February 23, 2019: teaching indoor cycling + teaching fitness boxing + 3 m run
Indoor Ride Time: 56:11, Pace: 16.2 mph avg, Felt: fine, not quite ready for intervals after my cold
Strength: body weight movements and boxing, Felt: good
Run location: hood, Temp: 34°/34°, Time: 32:24, Pace: 10:47 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: fine

Sunday | February 24, 2019: rest

Notes:

  • I’d really hoped to exercise more Monday since I had the day off for the holiday, but I rested most of the day since I was still dealing with my cold. Happily, I felt well enough to teach class (and glad no one had to partner with me since I was still coughing/draining).
  • Gosh, my run on Tuesday felt SO. GOOD. It was sunny out with hardly any wind and I hadn’t run since Saturday morning… and I just felt so good and comfortable. What a way to start the week! After my run my face was red for the rest of the day and I thought it was some exercise/getting over a cold combo. At the end of the day I finally realized it was a sun burn, ha!
  • I had Friday off work and asked Rachel if she wanted to take some time off to run together, and she was game! Yay! I asked her before I realized the weekend weather would be absolute sh*t (rain most of Saturday, crazy high winds most of Sunday), so I’m glad it worked out to do a long run on Friday in the sun and low winds.
  • I broke my ten year Frosty Footrace 5K streak by not running it on Sunday. I’m not in shape to race a 5K and wasn’t interested in doing it. And of course, it was wacky windy weather like it is so often for that race. I slept in Sunday, spent the morning lazing about, had lunch out with friends, then ran errands. A perfect day, minus the errands. And seriously, it was so windy that my car trunk didn’t want to open or shut.
  • I felt a lot better at the end of the week than the beginning, yay! I think I’ll be able to start back up with speedwork next week. I am kind of thinking about doing a 5K the second weekend in May.

Link to Training Week 487