A major storm rolled in Monday morning and when I woke up to start my day of training with a run outside with friends, it was raining. Rain in July is fun. Rain in January is miserable. I decided I would run on the treadmill instead.
It was also a holiday in which everyone was home. So I didn't make it to the gym for my strength class or to go swimming. I figured the week was early and I would just reschedule them. I learned a tough lesson.
It is so much easier to just go and do what's on the training plan than to try to reschedule the workouts into the other days. Every day is busy when you are training for an endurance event. There is never a day that isn't. So to add one or two more things makes things crazy!
I snuck my missed swimming session in on Wednesday, while my youngest was at gymnastics class. It was the third workout of the day and the day after we spent all day on the slopes. I was pretty tired when I got in the water!
My missed strength workout got pushed to Friday, where I sandwiched it between an easy 5 mile run and a long 25 mile bike ride. Not ideal at all.
To make matters worse, because I was so tired from Wednesday, I couldn't pull myself out of bed to get to the pool Thursday morning. I had a doctor's appointment that morning while Lila was at school and things going that afternoon after Josh got home from school and would be able to babysit. I rescheduled it for Saturday, but you know how Saturdays get, and in the end, I have a big fat zero for that workout. Not how I wanted the early weeks of training to go!
Moral of the story: Never miss a Monday! It sets the week up for success or failure.
Weekly Totals:
Swimming: 2969 yds
Biking: 3:02:50 (25 mile long)
Run: 19.1 miles
Workout of the Week
Saturday was the Bigfoot Snowshoe Festival in Midway. I did the race a few years ago and it was a blast. So Tracy, Hillary and I signed up for the 10k. I had decided on Friday, before working out for 3 hours, that I wanted to race it. I don't do a lot of races any more and I've been itching to let loose. So that was the plan. I looked up my time from three years ago and made some goals. I finished the 10k course in 2016 in 1:43. I wanted to do it in under 1:30 this year, putting me at about 15 minute miles.
Running in snowshoes is a lot like running in the sand. Only it's not at sea level and it's not warm with the sound of the waves crashing against the beach. I started out really strong but the golf course that we run on for the first few miles has a little bit of an incline. At 1 mile, I was huffing and puffing like I was sprinting, yet barely pulling a 12 minute mile. I almost abandoned my running goal but got a second wind after walking for a few minutes. When it was time to start climbing up the mountain for the second half of the course, I was in a good groove. I employed my marathon-pacing strategy for when things are really tough and I want to quit. Run .10 miles then walk .10 miles. It means you are running half of every mile, but you get a nice break. And you can run .10 miles uphill because it's only .10 miles!
I kept that strategy for most of the next two miles. There was one spot where it was just too hard to run at all. And then it was all downhill from there (well, mostly). It was SO much fun to let loose on snowshoes and run downhill! I cruised to the finish line and crossed at 1:24! It was 6 minutes faster than my goal and almost 20 minutes faster than three years ago. Plus it was good enough for 2nd place OVERALL in the women's division.
It was also a holiday in which everyone was home. So I didn't make it to the gym for my strength class or to go swimming. I figured the week was early and I would just reschedule them. I learned a tough lesson.
It is so much easier to just go and do what's on the training plan than to try to reschedule the workouts into the other days. Every day is busy when you are training for an endurance event. There is never a day that isn't. So to add one or two more things makes things crazy!
I snuck my missed swimming session in on Wednesday, while my youngest was at gymnastics class. It was the third workout of the day and the day after we spent all day on the slopes. I was pretty tired when I got in the water!
My missed strength workout got pushed to Friday, where I sandwiched it between an easy 5 mile run and a long 25 mile bike ride. Not ideal at all.
To make matters worse, because I was so tired from Wednesday, I couldn't pull myself out of bed to get to the pool Thursday morning. I had a doctor's appointment that morning while Lila was at school and things going that afternoon after Josh got home from school and would be able to babysit. I rescheduled it for Saturday, but you know how Saturdays get, and in the end, I have a big fat zero for that workout. Not how I wanted the early weeks of training to go!
Moral of the story: Never miss a Monday! It sets the week up for success or failure.
Weekly Totals:
Swimming: 2969 yds
Biking: 3:02:50 (25 mile long)
Run: 19.1 miles
Workout of the Week
Saturday was the Bigfoot Snowshoe Festival in Midway. I did the race a few years ago and it was a blast. So Tracy, Hillary and I signed up for the 10k. I had decided on Friday, before working out for 3 hours, that I wanted to race it. I don't do a lot of races any more and I've been itching to let loose. So that was the plan. I looked up my time from three years ago and made some goals. I finished the 10k course in 2016 in 1:43. I wanted to do it in under 1:30 this year, putting me at about 15 minute miles.
Running in snowshoes is a lot like running in the sand. Only it's not at sea level and it's not warm with the sound of the waves crashing against the beach. I started out really strong but the golf course that we run on for the first few miles has a little bit of an incline. At 1 mile, I was huffing and puffing like I was sprinting, yet barely pulling a 12 minute mile. I almost abandoned my running goal but got a second wind after walking for a few minutes. When it was time to start climbing up the mountain for the second half of the course, I was in a good groove. I employed my marathon-pacing strategy for when things are really tough and I want to quit. Run .10 miles then walk .10 miles. It means you are running half of every mile, but you get a nice break. And you can run .10 miles uphill because it's only .10 miles!
I kept that strategy for most of the next two miles. There was one spot where it was just too hard to run at all. And then it was all downhill from there (well, mostly). It was SO much fun to let loose on snowshoes and run downhill! I cruised to the finish line and crossed at 1:24! It was 6 minutes faster than my goal and almost 20 minutes faster than three years ago. Plus it was good enough for 2nd place OVERALL in the women's division.
Another great memory in the books! Snow shoeing can almost make me like winter- almost. But I still have a love hate relationship with it.
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