Keeping track of my training runs and attempts at strength-training sessions over the summer, in preparation for races and cross-country season.
Monday, 7/15/13: 45 minute bike ride in the morning, 15 mins strength training later
Tuesday, 7/16/13: 2.7 mile run on the hamster wheel
Wednesday, 7/17/13: 3 mile run on the hamster wheel
Thursday, 7/18/13: 2.5 mile super-speedy run with XC team…
XC run w/ the incomparably talented team at breakneck speeds…got left in dust & lost. Had to ask Siri for the way back to school.#epicfail
— thegirlintheorange (@tgitorange) July 18, 2013
& 30 minute yoga/strength training fusion DVD in the evening.
Friday, 7/19/13: 4 mile run with XC team, for which I was not ready. Perished and curled up on the couch for the rest of the day.
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Saturday, 7/20/13: Lightly active LASER tag fun and some much-needed rest!
Sunday, 7/21/13: Biked to the library and back to return some books–about 14 miles.
Also found a super-special good luck charm on the path!
(And learned that my hands were in need of some moisturizer.)
Monday, 7/22/2013: Nada, unfortunately. Had a motivation crisis (or a let-me-just-eat-food-and-lounge-about-all-day crisis.)
Tuesday, 7/23/2013: 3.1 miles on hamster wheel! (Ran for half an hour at 5 mph, then walked 13 mins at 3 mph)
Wednesday, 7/24/2013: “Easy” run on the hamster wheel, except it was actually really hard. 2.3 miles.
Thursday, 7/25/2013:
Don’t mock my speed.
Friday, 7/26/2013:
Oh goodness the XC girls are tryin’ to kill me. You can see my pace was lagging considerably, but I actually made it without fainting (contrary to my predicted outcome)! I feel a little–a lot–bad that I’m holding them up so much with my lack of speed, but I was really digging deep for this…really hot outside, too! Drinking water when it was all over was something like a powerful spiritual experience.
+ 20 minutes of yoga, in the evening, in an effort to open and loosen up my hips (who handed in their resignation halfway through this run).
Saturday, 7/27/2013: Another approx. 14-mile bike ride. Little Bro was with us, so we had to slacken our pace a bit (it also may or may not have had anything to do with the fact that I was still really frickin’ sore), but we saw an emu along the bike path (in a pen, yes). So…good ride.
Sunday, 7/28/2013: Rest day! 🙂
Monday, 7/29/2013: 11 mile bike ride before Daddio left for work.
Tuesday, 7/30/2013: A run was planned but not executed; 1 hr yoga.
Wednesday, 7/31/2013: Had some bad shin/ankle pain??? on the hamster wheel, so forewent it in favor of the elliptical. Half-hour elliptical workout, followed, later in the day, by a Peanut Butter Fingers strength workout.
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Upcoming races:
August 24–5k
Nearly a year in the future–Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Ride
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