Last week’s workouts ramped up a bit. My training time is increasing and I’m trying to find more hills for elevation. I feel like I’m slacking off on hill training so with about 6 weeks left in training, now is the time to step it up!
Monday
40 minutes Stepmill
60 minutes Strength and Mobility
Tuesday
52 minute run, 316 ft elev gain
Easy miles with Kyle in the daylight! It’s so lovely how early sunrise is now. The not so lovely part of our run was all the worms all over the roads. At first I thought the road had little sticks everywhere. Nope. That would be worms. April rain will do that! I’m surprised we didn’t wipe out because of the squishy guys everywhere. Blech.
Wednesday
30 minutes Elliptical
60 minutes Strength and Mobility
Thursday
52 minute run, 545 ft elev gain
After spending two days away with my kids at an indoor water park, eating none of my usual food, and having Lukas practice karate on me all night long, this run was destined to be not so good. Oh and not to mention that it was at 5 p.m. – my least favorite time of the day to run. Good times.
The goal of the run was to get as much elevation as possible in 50 minutes. I did a few repeats on the mega hill in town which majorly sucked. There was some walking involved – which hasn’t happened since training started. I felt super sluggish and just blah. I’m not surprised one bit that it sucked. I may have even sandbagged myself before I even started running just because I had a feeling. Oh well. It’s done. I now know not to go to an indoor water park the week of Mount Washington. The wave pool trashed my legs! Who knew?!?!
Friday
Rest day!
Saturday
1:20 trail run, 1089 ft. elev gain
You know it’s going to be a fun (and very wet) trail run in the morning when all night long you heard rain pounding against the windows. Andrea and I met up for some pre-miles before joining up with a larger group doing a preview run of a race the following weekend. We didn’t think there would be so much stop and go explaining the race course. Kind of a bummer but it was nice to run with some new faces. Most of the trails were nothing but mud and streams of water rushing down the mountain. To say my shoes and socks were muddy and wet was an understatement.
Sunday
50 minute run, 9:09 avg pace
This was supposed to be a 40 minute run but I met up with Kyle and some new friends and ended up running a little more than I was prescribed. Whoops. It was lovely to see the sunshine even though it was chilly. I’m so sick of gray and rain. All I’m saying is we better be getting some AMAZING May flowers from all this April rain.
How was your week in workouts?
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