Highlight of the Week: Walks with friends! / Feeling speedy from listening to music on runs

Monday | December 28, 2020: 3.4 m walk
Tuesday | December 29, 2020: strength + 6 m run
Run location: VP Woods, Temp: 14°/14°, Time: 1:07:34, Pace: 11:15 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: really good!
Wednesday | December 30, 2020: rest
Thursday | December 31, 2020: 5 m run
Run location: VP Woods, Temp: 23°/23°, Time: 55:34, Pace: 11:06 avg, Difficulty: easy (after I got off the snow!), Felt: good, strong
Friday | January 1, 2021: 3 m walk (w/Kathie)
Saturday | January 2, 2021: strength + 4 m run
Run location: hood, Temp: 28°/29°, Time: 47:26, Pace: 11:51 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Sunday | January 3, 2021: 7 m run + 3.25 m walk (w/Bobbi)
Run location: VP Woods loop, Temp: 32°/33°, Time: 1:22:52, Pace: 11:50 avg, Difficulty: easy enough, Felt: decent

Notes:

• More tights talk! As you know, I am looking for warm tights for cold and windy weather. My friend Joanna recommend Gore Tex so I put these (R3 Women Thermo Tights) on my wishlist and my father-in-law got them for me for Christmas. I ran in them Tuesday and felt great! I still need to try them on a windy run, but I felt warm and comfortable on this one. My only complaint is that I wish they had a higher waist, but I just wore tall socks and pulled them up!
• We got snow on Tuesday, and when I went to run Thursday I decided to see how it was on the trails. Ha. The snow was packed down but it was so taxing on my legs. I did one mile on the trails and finished the rest on the road. And I listened to music again and my last four miles were fast, for me!
• I started the new year off with a walk with Kathie, and then I walked with Bobbi on Sunday… and we saw Kathie! Ha! I am very grateful for my walks with friends and for pleasant weather to walk in. I hope we can keep meeting up.
• I felt lazy this weekend. Sigh. I just wanted to paint rocks. To my credit… I am working on gifts… does that make it better? Anyway, 7 miles for the long run. I was going to run 5 but when it was in the 30s and not windy I added more on!
• Monthly recap! In December I ran 94.7 miles (18 runs).  My coldest run was 14°F and my warmest was 47°F. I walked 10 times. I did 11 strength workouts at home.
• Yearly recap! In 2020, I ran 1,562.3 miles, cycled 80 miles, and walked 220.3 miles. I did 15 speed sessions and 23 hill sessions. My coldest run was 14°F and my warmest was 85°F. I taught 19 strength classes and 3 fitness boxing classes. I quit teaching this spring. I did 96 strength sessions at home. I ran one race (before they mostly shut down due to the pandemic – I was signed up for one other half that became virtual) – the Publix Atlanta Half Marathon. I ran my highest weekly mileage in (72) in July and my highest monthly mileage (252.3) in June. All that running gave me a hip overuse injury that took a month to recover from. Then I later had a knee issue, I am suspecting due to sitting in a funky position on the couch and being overweight. That took a month+ to recover from. I hope my running is more consistent in 2021!

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