Another good week on the books. Can't believe March is already over! It's okay though, April is my favorite month.
Monday
Still couldn't drag myself out of bed to get to spin class. I will make it one of these days!! Since I ran a half on Sunday, I decided to use today as rest day and put in the bare minimum effort.
Ran Outside: 1.03 miles
Walk: 2.5 miles
Tuesday
Felt a sinus cold coming on (again), blah! Kept this run pretty light, but did some arm exercises with my 8lb weights after the run.
Ran Outside: 2.12 miles
Walk: 3.0 miles
Wednesday
Trying out this new program on runcoach.com and today's workout was a threshold run. I went to the gym for this run so I could control my speed on the treadmill.
Ran on Treadmill: 3.65 miles
Walk: 3.5 miles
Thursday
Thursday's seem to be pretty boring days. Nothing exciting to report here. I ran.
Ran Outside: 3.04 miles
Walk: 1.5 miles
Friday
Third Friday doing my speed workout on the treadmill. As if there aren't a million reasons to look forward to Friday, this is a bonus. It's a challenging workout that usually wipes me out, but leaves me feeling accomplished. Next week, I'm going to have a little nutrition pre workout - I started running out of steam at mile 4.
Ran on Treadmill: 5.0 miles
Walk: 3.0 miles
Saturday
Long run Saturday. I thought about going into the double digits, but I didn't want to overdue it - seeing as I have 2 half marathons in a 3 week time span. I think I'm ready for Rock n' Roll on the 7th.
Ran Outside: 8.17 miles
Walk: 2.5 miles
Sunday
Unfortunately this was a pretty uneventful day, despite being a holiday. It was another rainy Easter in San Francisco. I waited until late afternoon to knock out my run and I hurried through, almost setting a 5K record...almost since I only ran 3.0 miles instead of 3.1 (24:30)
Ran Outside: 3.0 miles
Walk 1.0 mile
Other Noteworthy Things:
I made it a full week as a vegetarian - Sunday actually marked day 9. It's easier than I would've thought. Just have to monitor my protein and iron intake, but that'll get better with practice. It's April - my favorite month of the year. Mostly because it's my birthday month! And we are going to Hawaii for our honeymoon! Lots of good stuff to look forward to.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Weekly Workout Summary
Time has been going by so fast, I can hardly keep up. Hoping that I'll get some time to breath come April! Here's a recap of my workouts last week.
Monday
My goal was to start implementing a spin class once a week. This would normally take place Monday mornings at 6:00. However, on this particular Monday, sleeping sounded soooo much better. So around 6:40, I dragged myself out of bed and to the gym. I knocked out a slow mile on the treadmill and then spent about 15 minutes on a stationary bike....regretting the fact that I slept in and missed out on a better workout!
Ran on Treadmill: 1.0 miles
Bike: 15 minutes / 3 miles
Walk: 2.0 miles
Tuesday
Again, could not bear to drag myself out of bed before sun up (I blame the time change, this spring forward sh*t is really kicking my butt)! This being said, I ended up doing an evening workout...in the rain. Which actually turned out to be quite refreshing
Ran Outside: 2.8 miles
Walk: 2.0 miles
Wednesday
Legs were feeling really tired this morning, so my run was more of a slow jog, probably better known as a shuffle. One foot in front of the other.
Ran Outside: 3.0 miles
Walk: 2.0 miles
Thursday
Nothing particularly awesome to note here. My run was good.
Ran Outside: 3.1 miles
Walk: 3.0 miles
Friday
When I signed up for Bay to Breakers, I got a free trial subscription to runcoach.com. I was able to put together a plan for a future race and I got a pretty cool training calendar out of it. As of last week, I'll now be dedicating Friday's to "track" (speed) workouts on the treadmill. We'll see how it goes.
Ran on Treadmill: 4.5 miles
Walk: 3.0 miles
Saturday
Kept this run pretty light since I had a race the next day. My sister has been getting more into running, so she tagged along with me for this run.
Ran on Outside: 3.0 miles
Walk: 1.0 mile
Sunday
A few weeks ago, my running club put out an email about an upcoming trail race. I've never run trails, but I thought it would be a great race to "try it out" and it would be a good excuse to get out of the city for half a day. The race was pretty low key, but had some serious runners - the course offerings were 5 mile, half marathon, 30K, marathon and 50K! Being a newbie to the trails, naturally I picked the half marathon. Since this was my first trail music, I decided to take it a lot slower than a road race and take time to enjoy the scenery. The course was beautiful and pretty challenging. I mean, there's nothing like a 500 foot climb in the first mile!!
Ran Outside: 13.1 miles
Other noteworthy things:
This is the highest mileage week I've had to date - and is shaping up to be my highest mileage month ever.
On Friday, I watched a documentary called "Vegucated" - I was pretty much mortified and decided that I should become a vegetarian, immediately. I tend to have a flare for the dramatic and jump into things head on...so I decided the rational thing was to do a trial run. I challenged myself to go 10 days without meat - I'm at the end of day 3 and so far, no problems. I'm not a big fan of red meat or seafood, so really I only need to wean myself off chicken and turkey. If all continues to go well, I plan to keep this going.
It has been 9 days since my last soda. I'm a lover of diet dr. pepper and hearing the crack of a soda can makes my mouth water (terrible, I know). I've tried to quit - ween myself off of the fake-sugary, brown, bubbly goodness several times...once I even went a month, but I've never been able to make it stick. I always relapse and then, next thing I know I'm drinking a soda every day. We'll see how long I can make it this time around.
The countdown is on....in one month I'll be in Hawaii! Gotta get this bod ready for the beach!
Monday
My goal was to start implementing a spin class once a week. This would normally take place Monday mornings at 6:00. However, on this particular Monday, sleeping sounded soooo much better. So around 6:40, I dragged myself out of bed and to the gym. I knocked out a slow mile on the treadmill and then spent about 15 minutes on a stationary bike....regretting the fact that I slept in and missed out on a better workout!
Ran on Treadmill: 1.0 miles
Bike: 15 minutes / 3 miles
Walk: 2.0 miles
Tuesday
Again, could not bear to drag myself out of bed before sun up (I blame the time change, this spring forward sh*t is really kicking my butt)! This being said, I ended up doing an evening workout...in the rain. Which actually turned out to be quite refreshing
Ran Outside: 2.8 miles
Walk: 2.0 miles
Wednesday
Legs were feeling really tired this morning, so my run was more of a slow jog, probably better known as a shuffle. One foot in front of the other.
Ran Outside: 3.0 miles
Walk: 2.0 miles
Thursday
Nothing particularly awesome to note here. My run was good.
Ran Outside: 3.1 miles
Walk: 3.0 miles
Friday
When I signed up for Bay to Breakers, I got a free trial subscription to runcoach.com. I was able to put together a plan for a future race and I got a pretty cool training calendar out of it. As of last week, I'll now be dedicating Friday's to "track" (speed) workouts on the treadmill. We'll see how it goes.
Ran on Treadmill: 4.5 miles
Walk: 3.0 miles
Saturday
Kept this run pretty light since I had a race the next day. My sister has been getting more into running, so she tagged along with me for this run.
Ran on Outside: 3.0 miles
Walk: 1.0 mile
Sunday
A few weeks ago, my running club put out an email about an upcoming trail race. I've never run trails, but I thought it would be a great race to "try it out" and it would be a good excuse to get out of the city for half a day. The race was pretty low key, but had some serious runners - the course offerings were 5 mile, half marathon, 30K, marathon and 50K! Being a newbie to the trails, naturally I picked the half marathon. Since this was my first trail music, I decided to take it a lot slower than a road race and take time to enjoy the scenery. The course was beautiful and pretty challenging. I mean, there's nothing like a 500 foot climb in the first mile!!
Ran Outside: 13.1 miles
Other noteworthy things:
This is the highest mileage week I've had to date - and is shaping up to be my highest mileage month ever.
On Friday, I watched a documentary called "Vegucated" - I was pretty much mortified and decided that I should become a vegetarian, immediately. I tend to have a flare for the dramatic and jump into things head on...so I decided the rational thing was to do a trial run. I challenged myself to go 10 days without meat - I'm at the end of day 3 and so far, no problems. I'm not a big fan of red meat or seafood, so really I only need to wean myself off chicken and turkey. If all continues to go well, I plan to keep this going.
It has been 9 days since my last soda. I'm a lover of diet dr. pepper and hearing the crack of a soda can makes my mouth water (terrible, I know). I've tried to quit - ween myself off of the fake-sugary, brown, bubbly goodness several times...once I even went a month, but I've never been able to make it stick. I always relapse and then, next thing I know I'm drinking a soda every day. We'll see how long I can make it this time around.
The countdown is on....in one month I'll be in Hawaii! Gotta get this bod ready for the beach!
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