W13DBP3 Weekly Training Report (8/13 - 8/19)
I am super bad at most things in my life, including: running all my scheduled workouts and updating this thing in a timely fashion. I really like what
@SarahDisney did on her page, so I think this week I will be changing up things a bit. But seriously, not that any of this matters to any of you. Haha. But let's talk about last week's runs because I wanna brag about my speed workout. It's all I have going for me right now.
Monday 8/13: Rest Day. In hindsight, should have done my Tuesday 5 miler this morning, but since I had actually done both of my longer runs during the weekend maybe good I didn't.
Tuesday 8/14: Husband was out of town and I just wasn't prepared to run during my lunch, so I skipped my 5 miler. #lifehappens
Wednesday 8/15: This was a killer workout in the best way possible. I had 3 x 1 mile at T Pace and hit them all a little fast but consistent. I focused on what "comfortably hard" felt like and stayed with it. Really proud of this one, especially after the struggle bus I have been on basically all summer.
Plan: 1 mi @ WU (12:29) + 3 x 1 mi @ T Pace (9:04) w/2 min RI + 1 mi @ CD (12:29)
Actual: 11:10, 8:44, 8:45, 8:44, 11:42
Thursday 8/16: I listened to this podcast episode on BibRave about how women's menstrual cycles can effect their training and now that is my go-to answer even if the science doesn't match up. I walked a lot, I took it slow, I cut it short. Whatever.
Plan: 5 mi @ EA (11:45)
Actual: 4.22 @ 12:49
Friday 8/17: Work got a little weird and I was worried I was going to miss my opportunity to lap swim during my lunch, but I made it in the nick of time!
Actual: 300 SKP, 750 Easy Free, 200 F/B
Saturday 8/18: I should have left earlier but man my bed has been feeling so amazing every morning that it is becoming increasingly harder to get out of it. Anyway, it was already pretty hot when I left. Glad I had lots of fluids with me. Walked a bit. This is becoming a trend I can't break because it's not like my body is asking for me to walk, it's actually my brain and I am allowing it to win.
Plan: 8 mi @ EB (10:58)
Actual: 8.01 @ 12:21
Sunday 8/19: Too much alcohol and too little sleep the night before, plus some friends did an impromptu suggestion to rent a boat and spend the day on the lake, so yeah all of that sounded better than this probably really important blind HM Tempo run I should have done in the morning.
And there you have it. I have 26 more days and 18 more workouts until my race. Here goes nothing.