This was a busy week (followed by another busy week). I had 5 work events over the course of 7 days, and celebrated BJ’s birthday. I’m down-right tired.
I was reading Jessica’s {week 6} recap and her theme was Sleep! Sleep! Sleep! I’m stealing that catchy phrase and applying it to my life this week. I need more sleep.
Other than sleep, I felt pretty good this week. One more week of mayhem and I should (fingers crossed) be back to “normal”.
Mileage: 41
Monday {rest day} – My mom was in town from FL for a work trip. We met up for dinner and it was SO much fun to see her. I miss my mom like crazy! {also confirmed – my mom has purchased her tickets for Boston!!}
Tuesday {track} – I felt pretty strong going into this workout. I also feel really lucky to have a solid group (4-5 runners) that run the same pace. It makes for an interesting workout. 1.5 mile warm-up, 4 x 1200m, 1.5 mile-cool down
4 x 1200m (4:50, 4:36, 4:34, 4:30)
I also had a work event (Nightlife fun run)at one of my accounts – 3 mile run.
Wednesday {4-6 miles} – I had a work event on Thursday, so I switched days. Wednesday – rest day, with the exception of a 30 minute workout in the gym: arms, abs, stretching.
Thursday {rest day} – I had a Valentine’s Day themed run at one of my accounts. It was such a fun event. I can’t say it enough – fun runs are definitely a perk of my job! 4.5 miles
Friday {tempo run} – Running 3.1 miles on the track is boring but thankfully I had a running partner and it was fairly painless. The good thing about a 3.1 mile run is that the workout is over quickly: 7:02, 6:57, 6:56
(In college I had a love/hate relationship with 200’s on the minute. It was the quickest workout in history (8-10 minutes, depending on how many 200’s we had to run) but also one of the hardest (we ran a 200m every minute, whatever time was left – usually 28-30 seconds – was our rest before the next 200m. This workout reminded me of college – tough but over quickly).
Saturday {16 miles} – I ran 16 long, slow miles. I had a work event in the morning and was unable to run with CAR. When I got home, I convinced BJ to help me on my run. I ran 10 miles by myself, and then he ran the last 6 miles with me. It definitely helped improve moral – I was starting to hurt on the run. 2:16:00 minutes (8:30 average pace)
Sunday {4 miles} – I had a work event for a large portion of the day, so I had to squeeze in a run. I actually felt really good (after running 16 miles). It was a really cold, windy morning – but felt nice to get out in the crisp morning for a 4 mile run.
6 down, 9 to go! {no longer in the double digits}
Great week ! Love reading about your training. 9 to go…wow! It will be here so fast.
Fantastic week! Speedy 1200’s, woman! 🙂