Highlight of the Week: A lovely rainy cloudy run on Thursday!
Monday | April 1, 2019: 15 m ride + teaching strength class
Indoor Ride Time: 59:13, Pace: 15.2 mph avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Strength: kettlebells and cones, Felt: okay
Tuesday | April 2, 2019: 15 m run
Run location: Trumpet/VP Woods Loop, Temp: 42°/39°, Time: 2:40:46, Pace: 10:43 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: decent, but sluggish, especially at the end
Wednesday | April 3, 2019: 5.3 m run
Run location: Chicago Lakefront Trail, Temp: 40°/39°, Time: 53:40, Pace: 10:08 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Thursday | April 4, 2019: 11 m run
Run location: VP Woods long loop, Temp: 38°/38°, Time: 1:48:55, Pace: 9:54 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: mostly good!
Friday | April 5, 2019: teaching strength class + 4 m run
Strength: kettlebells and cones, Felt: okay, but tired (sleepy)
Run location: hood, Temp: 37°/37°, Time: 41:30, Pace: 10:22, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | April 6, 2019: 3 m run
Run location: to Indian Creek Trail and back, Temp: 51°/54°, Time: 29:57, Pace: 9:58 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Sunday | April 7, 2019: rest
Notes:
- I really didn’t want to take Monday as my (first! <— wasn’t planning on two!) running rest day since we had a weekend of travel coming up, but with 25 mph winds with gusts in the 30s, I said eff it. I was so annoyed with my much less windy (and colder) run the day before! And I’d had a super pissy day at work, to boot. To the bike instead! I was actually happy I rode, since I hadn’t in so long!
- I tried to cram running in before our trip to Kansas City. I should have done my speedwork at home, but didn’t feel like it. I am really wavering on doing that 5K Mother’s Day weekend. I don’t feel like I’ll be in shape to race. But I still have four weeks so I might as well keep training!
- This is definitely a recurring topic, but teaching the Friday 5:00 am class really messes me up for the weekend. I don’t think I should do it before I travel anymore. I didn’t get enough sleep Thursday night (4.5 hours) then taught at 5:00 am then we flew to Kansas City. I was out of it and tired most of the weekend. UGH. (And we were up really early for a flight home today so I am STILL feeling out of it. Blah!)
I think I had a rest week..you ran and worked out quite a bit :p My rest day threw me off kilter this week too. I normally take Monday (and I did) but since I’ve ran so little in the last two weeks it felt weird taking the day off.
I did so little on the weekend and took Monday off, that it felt like rest! So yeah, I get feeling totally off not doing a lot then taking a Monday off, lol!