Sayonara week 11.
You weren't great. My calves hate you.
Isn't that a great welcome? Hello Monday. You suck.
Ok, not really, but I'm feeling a bit feisty.
I'm frustrated that I'm finding it harder and harder to wake up for my early morning runs.
The alarm is getting a bit too easy to turn off.
Set more alarms you say? I have 3.
The crumminess of these week has given me clear and concise goals to shoot for this week. There is a silver lining!!
I am getting ahead of myself, though. First things first.
The Rundown
Monday - A glorious, adventure-seeking scavenger hunt of a run. I ran with a fellow MRTT momma, and had a blast despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We banged out 4 miles, varying our pace, a lot. That was unintentional.
Tuesday - Rest day. Felt antsy all day though. A short run might've helped.
Wednesday - Supposed to be an easy run, but it turned into more of a threshold run that didn't tell me it was a threshold run until the last uphill half mile. Ugh. It felt great though. I tried out a new route and killed it. I sang the whole way. Literally, sang the whole way. Didn't go to zumba though. My calves were telling me about my antics by mid-morning.
Thursday - Rest day. Calves hurt. Gave them some TLC. Met up with the girls for some wine that evening, probably not the best plan considering I had an early morning run Friday scheduled.
Friday - What? You want me to wake up? You're funny. Oh hun, you're going to be late for your training. Excuse me, while I roll back over and catch another hour of sleep?!? Seriously, tired. I stayed up too late, and should not have had wine the night before. I am finding that I cannot drink wine the night before an early run. The mind doesn't like it. Doesn't mean that I haven't done it. No run occurred.
On a high note - July's miles totalled 53.6 miles. Not too shabby.
Saturday - Apparently my pace control decided not to show up. The run was pretty easy until the 1/2 way point, and then it got hard. I don't know why. My splits show a pretty accurate picture of how hard the latter half of the run was.
- 10:30
- 10:26
- 10:43
- 10:44
- 11:15
- 11:48
- 11:03
- 11:51
- 12:34
- 12:07
- 12:27 (average pace for the 1/2 mile)
My hips really started complaining up some of the steeper hills. I walked the 2 steepest on the run, and then grandpa-shuffled up the last. I had to dig really deep to finish.
The last 1.5 miles were brutal.
The heat and humidity were not helping either. I just keep telling myself it's just prepping me for VA Beach.
I finished 10.56 miles in 2 hours. Average pace was 11:21, which is still good enough to beat my goal, but it's a little too close for comfort.
My Goals for This Week
So last week's goals weren't hard, but apparently I couldn't reach any of them. I could maybe give myself a nod for the speedwork goal, because I did kill it on Wednesday. I didn't make it to a spin class though, I went out with the girls. We've already discussed the pace. Let's not rehash that.
8 Hours of sleep a night
means early bedtimes before those early run days.
Continue Pace Work
Cross Train More
Well that's another week in the books. Next week will be better.
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