Hello! How’s it going? How did your running go this week? Did you keep track/notes of your workouts?
I ran 19 miles this morning. It was smooth sailing running for the first 10 miles and then it got rough.
It can be hilly around here so by mile 11 the hills were really challenging. I felt myself slowing down and did take walk breaks on the super steep ones. I totally take walking breaks while running – when I tell people this they are super surprised. I don’t get it. If I need to walk, I walk. If the hill is making my running slower than walking, I’m going to walk.
But I am trying to keep these walk breaks to times when I really truly need it. I am training for the LA Marathon and there are some big hills on the course. And I’m beginning to train to get faster so I do need to start building up my strength in this area.
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Despite the walking breaks my time is okay. That’s thanks to some fairly fast (for me miles) and the big win of the day was that I ended the run with about 4 miles that I tried to keep around 8:30.
19 mile run – average pace 8:43
Post-run – I felt wrecked and thirsty and super tight.
After my shower I grabbed some Simply Clusters for a snack and made a green smoothie.
Kinda random… I’ve sampled these at Costco two or three times and really liked them! But I didn’t need them so I skipped it. Yesterday I was on a mission to buy these and that’s the only reason I went there (of course it wasn’t the only thing I left with).
Run Camp Day 7 – Check in
We’re done with week 1! Did you set your goals? Do you have a plan to crush ‘em?!!
The best way to check progress is by recording what you are doing and how you’re feeling everyday. So fill out the Running Log or record your runs however works for you. But, you gotta do it.
Runs last week were not good. Weird aches and pains. But this week off to a great start. Today’s run: 1 mile w/u (8:34) 4 miles tempo (7:08 pace) and 1 mile c/d (8:34 pace)
Felt good:):):)
So last week was “meh” for me. I did some intervals on the treadmill at the gym and a lot of strength training. I couldn’t run for more than two minutes on the treadmill. I’m not sure if it’s the treadmill that limits me, or if I’m so conditioned to doing intervals on the treadmill that straight running is just about impossible. It was super super cold here last week and the one day that it was decently warm, I had to work late. I ended up with an epic fail that day. Chalked it up to a rest day. I’m struggling with getting out there and doing it. Just putting on my gear and going. It was 20 degrees yesterday. To me that’s no fun. And if it’s not fun, I don’t want to do it. I know it’s mind over matter, but I also know that I have to be kind to myself and that if I’m not, I won’t do it at all. So…
This afternoon, I’m heading out to take the dog for a long walk, then hitting the gym for strength training, which I’ll end with some running on the treadmill. My mini-goal is to hit 1 mile straight. Maybe I need a new playlist.
Had a great week! Needed to do my long run on a different day, so my week was off, but it was a nice change of pace. Doing my first relay race this weekend, so that’s exciting!
My running this week was bad. I started school this week which put me on a lot of stress. After my run on Wednesday, I had muscle-fatigue on one of my calves. I needed to stick with low impact exercises and arm and core strength which is kind of boring to me:(
Meh…Really working on getting faster but speed work is hard :’-(
My workouts were “Okay” this week. I did have a sick day in the middle there that postponed a hill workout. I think I might print more copies of the running log to use after Run Camp is over. I like being able to look back and see more personal notes on my workouts than what I put into RunKeeper. Thank, Monica!!
Amazing
Yah!!!
It’s hilly where I live too and I’m always running up and down – hardly ever flat. It’s so challenging!
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It is hard! I just want to run flat forever.