Last week’s workouts were my first in half marathon training.

Yes, that’s right.  I’m running the Seacoast Half in November.  I haven’t run a half in 2 years so I have zero expectations.  One of my BRF’s, Kyle, had been talking about running her first half so I said I’d train and run the whole thing with her.

No goal expectations – just have fun!

The Seacoast Half is one of my favorite local road races.  It was my first EVER race and first half marathon.  I think I’ve done it 5 or 6 times. It’s mostly flat and follows along the New Hampshire seacoast.  Plus, part of the proceeds goes to a different local charity every year. Love when running can make a difference in my community!

Monday

4.4 mile run, 9:05 avg/pace

Easy miles to start the week off.  This was my third day of running in a row.  My PF felt achy afterwards when I was at work but I was able to stretch it out enough that it wasn’t even noticeable in the afternoon. Just another reminder that I can’t slack off on keeping up with stretching and strengthening no matter if the PF is feeling better.

Tuesday

Morning Flow Yoga @ Bending Bodhi

My gym was closed today for equipment upgrades so I opted for an at home workout. I’m so out of practice with home workouts that I was bored after 5 minutes.  How did I survive without a gym membership for 7 years?

30 minutes bike w/ 10 x 30 sec surges

Bosu burpees

Monster walks

Med ball push ups

Lunge matrix with med ball rotation

Side plank to single leg balance

Wednesday

30 minutes Arc Trainer

10 minutes Stepmill alternating 1min forward, 1 min left foot side steps, 1 min right foot side steps

Strength training:

DB bench press

Curtsy squats w/ barbell

Reverse grip barbell row

Hip thrusters w/ barbell

Pull up shrugs + eccentric pull ups

TRX lunge w/ reach and hop

SL KB deadlift

Med ball slams

Stability ball trunk rotation

Stability ball plank roll up

Thursday

Morning Flow Yoga @ Bending Bodhi

5.2 mile run, 8:29 avg/pace, 219 ft elev gain

1.5 mile warm up, 2 miles @ comfortably hard pace, 1.7 cool down

This was a fun workout despite wanting to puke at the end of the last comfortably hard mile.  It was totally an error in judgement to think that Kyle and I would be done with our last mile before heading up a mega hill. We weren’t and we still had a little less than a half mile of climbing up that beast.  Hence the wanting to puke. Note to self: never trust my mileage judgement.

Friday

Rest day!

Saturday

4 mile run,  9:01 avg/pace, 222 ft elev gain

Easy miles to shake out the legs.  And my legs definitely needed some shaking.  That first mile was rough!

Sunday

8 mile run, 8:51 avg/pace, 320 ft elev gain

I must confess that 43 degrees felt chilly at first but turned out to be rather lovely. Crisp, blue skies are what all fall running should entail. Kyle and I decided on a relatively flat route but added an up, over, down and up on two big hills near the finish to simulate the Seacoast Half Marathon course.

Despite not even trying, we negative split the whole thing too. The funny thing is that I was telling Kyle that I’m horrible at negative splits too.  Maybe putting it out in the universe helped? Lol!

Linking up with Hoho and Wendy for the weekly workout wrap up.

How was your week in workouts?

 

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