Weekly Wrap-Up: 2/3 - 2/9

Monday - planned 5-6 miles; actual - a solid 5 mile run. I probably would have pushed to go a bit further, but I had Ava in the day care at the gym and promised her some time to play in the toddler gym afterwards. It felt good to get the week off to a strong start. Final distance was right at 5.00 miles in 56:39 (11:19 average). Splits are below.

**my first mile is always quite a bit slower; I start my app right away so it always includes my warm-up. It is what it is!

Tuesday - planned Interval Conditioning; actual - Interval Conditioning. Tuesday night the instructor specifically incorporates the kettle balls that they just added to their repertoire of fitness equipment. I feel like with the focus on kettle bells, she does less cardio intervals. I know she is still giving us a run for our money, and that we are getting a good, full body workout. I am writing this part of the post on Thursday night, and having a hard time remembering specific moves we did. I know there were a handful of swings, both two handed and one handed. We did some burpees. Everyone's favorite, right? Always core work, squats, and lunges. It was good.

Wednesday - planned 6-7 miles; actual - 0. I've been fighting a head cold and have been feeling tired. I thought maybe I could help get Ava ready for bed and then go a tad later since I had been gone Monday and Tuesday night, but who was I kidding? Ava and I colored some pictures of Dora and I still went to bed later than I should have.

Thursday - planned Interval Conditioning; actual - 3.07 mile run and Interval Conditioning. Did the run in an 11:19 average (nice consistency from Monday!) in a total of 34:49.

Followed that up right away with the 40 minute Interval Conditioning class I try to make it to twice a week. You can see in the poorly lit picture below that we used jump ropes and kettle balls. It was a good workout! I missed burning a few calories because I didn't have the coordination for jumping rope that night! Just out of the picture you can see she had us grab gliders, but she is so into the kettle balls right now she never made us use them. Trust me I wasn't disappointed!

Friday - Rest

Saturday - planned 8-9 miles; actual 6.06 miles. I have been running in the afternoons on the weekends, simply because we like our slow, snuggly mornings. With Chad's plans of going to the Fishing for a Cure event (part off our town's Paint the Town Pink cancer research fundraiser), I needed to get up and go in the morning. I tried, but still left the house later than I should have and only had time to do 6. My plan is to make up the miles on Sunday. When I was changing to go to the Y, laying back down in bed seemed much more ideal. I had no idea what to expect from the run. The first half wasn't bad - my average pace at that point was 11:14, :05 faster than my first two runs this week. I don't know if I truly get tired or bored, but the second half on the track never goes as fast. I also learned today that over 5 miles won't fit on a screen shot! So I copied my splits from Nike's website. Final distance was 6.06 miles in a time of 1:09:17, an average pace of 11:25.

Splits

Show Rest Periods

Mile	Time	Change	Avg Pace
1	12:18	--	12'18"/mi
2 *Fastest	22:58	- 1:38 (13%)	10'40"/mi
3	33:40	+ 0:00 (-1%)	10'41"/mi
4	45:13	+ 0:51 (-9%)	11'33"/mi
5	56:49	+ 0:03 (-1%)	11'36"/mi
6	1:08:31	+ 0:05 (-1%)	11'42"/mi

Sunday: planned Boot Camp or Swimming; actual 3.61 miles. Not running Wednesday's run or getting 8 on Saturday, I decided to run today instead of cross train. I wanted 6 on Wednesday, and did 3 on Thursday. I wanted 8 on Saturday and got to 6, so 5 today made perfect sense! However,  I just wasn't feeling it. I had stomach craps before I left (like a pulled muscle almost), my legs felt heave, and I never got into a good rhythm. So, I called it good at 3.61 in 41:49, a 11:34 average.

I followed that up with my Wednesday Workout. While I picked that workout to focus on my abs/core, it was a pretty good full body workout. I felt it in my quads and hamstrings, and my wrists are even sore from holding the plank. I do think my abs will feel it in the morning. To prove that I am willing to try and take awkward gym photos, here is a picture right before I started set 3 of the leg lifts.

 

 



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Total stats on the week:

4 runs for a total of 17.7 miles in 3:22:34 seconds (thank you, Nike!)

2 interval conditioning classes (80 minutes total)

and 1 session using the stability ball (25 minutes)

 

 

How was your week?