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| Before the show: Damn us for not remembering we would need cash in order to have wine at the theater's bar! |
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| What I wore to the opera: replete with sparkles and duck face |
Tuesday - scheduled yoga. Actual yoga. A friend and I hit up a 60 minute Ashtanga class at our local yoga studio. This was my first ashtanga class in a really long time and I was melting into a puddle by about 10 minutes into it. We did all of the standing poses in the primary series and about a third of the seated ones before winding down in an inversion.
Wednesday - scheduled rest. Actual rest. As with the previous week, I was very sore from yoga and found taking a rest day quite appealing.
Thursday - scheduled 3 miles speedwork. Actual 3 miles easy. I'm hoping that soon I'll be in better yoga shape again and not still feel so sore 48+ hours after a practice. In exchange for keeping the pace at an easy 10:45 min/mile, I followed my 3 miles with some pushups, crunches, and gentle stretching.
Friday - scheduled 4 miles easy. Actual 4 miles with a few faster intervals thrown into the mix. When I got home from campus in the evening, I just really wanted to sit on the couch, drink some wine, and read a novel, but I forced myself to immediately change into running clothes and get in the miles. I wasn't feeling up to 800s but I did do several faster surges. My pace averaged out to 10:29.
Saturday - scheduled belly dance class. Actual belly dance class. This was the second class in the 4 week course that I signed up for, and it was a bit faster paced than the first class and involved some moves that were definitely challenging for someone who spends a lot of time hunched over manuscripts and doesn't have a lot of flexibility in her upper body and core.
Sunday - scheduled 7 miles LSD. Actual 7 miles at an average pace of 11:16 min/mile. The first six miles of this run were pretty awesome and confidence-building. The last mile I was tired and I was starting to feel it in my core. In spite of the sucky last mile, I feel pretty good about my longest run in the past three months and ready to build off of those completed miles in the weeks to come.
Total scheduled miles: 17.
Actual miles: 17.
Cross training workouts: 2.
So I feel like I had a solid week. I got in all the workouts on my schedule, and I ran all but one of my running workouts at a faster pace than their counterparts from the first week of training. Also there was opera. I'll take it.
That is a solid week looks like good progress mixed in with some fun!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, another good week! That's interesting to me that yoga is leaving you so sore. Do you feel it as much in your legs as you do your upper body?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I think it's because I didn't do much yoga in December or early January, and I went 4 or 5 weeks without doing a 60-90 minute class, so that's ratcheting up the soreness factor. The two classes I've been to in the past two weeks have left my upper body - especially my shoulders - very tired and sore. My hips have been kind of tired and sore, but my legs have held up pretty well post-practice. I'm hoping that after another week or so my body will get a bit more reacquainted with physical asana and the soreness will abate.
DeleteSolid week! I bet the belly dancing class would be fun but man that sounds like it would take a lot of coordination!
ReplyDeleteI may or may not have embarrassingly failed in coordination a couple of times during this past class. :)
DeleteA great week all around. Love that blue skirt!
ReplyDeleteGreat job on sticking with the plan and getting in the miles. I always love me a LSD.
ReplyDeleteThat is a very solid week of training - nice work! It always feels good to hit all your planned work outs!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love that outfit. A night at the opera sounds so fun!
Ok, now for some randomness. On Friday night I dreamed that we met up at this fancy, over-the-top Anthropologie. It even had a restaurant in it. It was so odd, but so cool! And so random!
If only we could meet up in such a place!
DeleteI want to go to the opera and drink wine!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen Tosca . . . was it great?
ReplyDeleteI'm just getting back to training after over a week off sick, and I'm a bit worried about catching up to wear I should be in the schedule. Have a Half scheduled for Feb 10th, so we'll see how that goes . . .
I'd never seen it before either. It was good but not great, as was the production itself. The supporting roles seemed to all be played by local talents, and I feel bad for saying it but the voices were pretty weak.
DeleteGood luck getting back on the training track!
Way to be bad ass with your workouts this week. You're definitely an inspiration!
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