Monday - scheduled rest. Actual rest. Since this was an exact repeat of the previous Monday, again it worked out pretty well that Monday was a rest day.
Tuesday - scheduled 4 miles. Actual 20 minute walk. I had a breakfast meeting, papers to grade, a lecture to write, and a guest lecture to give in a colleague's class in the evening.
Wednesday - scheduled rest. Actual rest. I considered making up Tuesday's miles here, but I was wiped out when I got home from campus that evening.
Thursday - scheduled 3 miles speedwork. Actual 4 miles speedwork. I did 4 x 800 with jogging recoveries. My pace averaged out to 9:50 min/mile.
Friday - scheduled 5 miles easy. Actual 3.3 miles easy. My pace averaged out to 10:42 min/mile. I followed it up with 20 push ups and some easy gentle yoga.
Saturday - scheduled yoga. Actual 3 miles easy at an average pace of 10:49. In the afternoon we also did a little bit of walking around downtown for Fur Rondy. The highlight was seeing the Outhouse Races.
Sunday - scheduled 12 miles LSD. Actual 11 miles LSD. I slept horribly and woke up congested, so I had initially talked myself into postponing this run until Tuesday, but then realized that the timing wasn't really going to be any better than, so I decided to go ahead and try to log the miles. I told myself to just run 90 minutes and evaluate how I felt then. I managed to keep going until I got to 11 miles, but at that point I was just completely out of juice. My pace averaged to a slow 11:41 min/mile.
Total scheduled miles: 24.
Actual miles: 21.3.
Cross training workouts: 2.
I'm hoping that this week will go a little bit more according to the training plan. What are your strategies for balancing training or getting in work outs when you have too many irons in the fire?
I definitely have to work out first thing in the morning or often it will not happen with everything else going on. I've been struggling with getting up though!
ReplyDeleteThe outhouse races--that's the best!
ReplyDeleteSome times life gets in the way...the important thing is to keep the consistency in there and you're doing that. Hopefully this week will be a bit easier for you!
I think you did a marvelous job of getting most of your miles into a hectic week. It's really hard sometimes, isn't it? I think your strategy to do a minimum that feels do-able is wise--I often have to make sure I don't psych myself out of a good long run by thinking too hard about the distance.
ReplyDeleteI'm giving you an electronic hug and a high five--you are doing just fine.
Outhouse races???
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure whether I think that's disgusting, or I'm intrigued and want to start training for one!
For me, if I can't fit in a. run in the morning, the day's lost for running -- I admire your ability to get on that treadmill later in the day Plus it's really impressive that you could still log 21 miles with all you had going on last week!
ReplyDeleteWhat I see in your list is that you cut off one mile a couple of times. Is there a reason for that? Why didn't you do that extra mile? Because it looks like if you did the extra mile three times you would have gotten the miles in. I mean, you are already getting dressed and getting out the door (the hard part!) so all you need to do is keep running for ten more minutes and you've got this!
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job of getting your miles in despite being really busy. It is tough to get those miles in, especially when you are logging them on your own as you don't have someone else out there to sort of keep you going when you really want to be done!
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