Happy Monday! In a few short hours, you’ll be seeing my whiny tweets about today’s mid term!
Monday – 10 miles bike
Tuesday – Rest
Wednesday – 6k intervals
Thursday – Rest
Friday – 8.3k track
Saturday – Rest
Sunday – 15k
Monday’s recovery bike ride was pretty tough. It’s interesting seeing how post long run, it takes me around 25 minutes to bike 3 miles “easy” whereas the other Friday when I biked on fresh legs, it took me less than 20 minutes to bike 3 miles. So I gotta keep reminding myself that recovery = stop staring at the time/distance. Just get it done!
Wednesday was frustrating… because guess who slept in? This gal! So I had to get my run in after class. I was scheduled to run 6 x 60 seconds at 5:00 pace with 2 minutes recovery. My splits were 2k warm up, 6 x 60sec @ (5:00, 5:05, 4:51, 4:58, 4:54, 4:40) w/ 2 min rec 1.28 cool down. I was feeling tightness in the groin area around the 4th sprint and it was starting to worry me so I cut the run short.
Friday was track day and of course… I slept in! I usually do my track workouts after work but I accidentally agreed to work a double shift so after 8 hours, my legs did NOT want to run!
I was ready to give up by the 1000m but I didn’t want to disappoint my coach since I had already slept in ): I didn’t nail my 5:00 pace and dropped to 5:30 due to tired legs. A little frustrating but I did it! Whew!
15k in rain • rain or shine right? Have a great Sunday!
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Sunday, I managed another 15k! I’m quite happy since this is the 2nd 15k this month for me ever since I got sidelined in April. I’m taking more care in stretching after my runs now so fingers crossed that was my last injury of the season!
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So that was my week! What did you do last week? How were your runs?
<3 Carmy
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Lisa @ Running Out Of Wine
Glad you are feeling good and got some good runs in! In sounds like you were smart about cutting your run short. I don’t think I would want to do a track workout after working a double shift either!
Elle
Looks like a great week. I am not a fan of running in the rain unless it is very warm!
Good luck with that midterm today.
Carmy
it actually felt SO good! We had a bit of a high heat/high humid week and when it rain finally broke it was like a sigh of relief!
rachel
Great job… and best of luck wtih your test today!
Jenn
You’re doing great!
I did a 5K and then a training run last week – I’m battling with my plantar fasciitis again, so I have to take it easy. Boo.
Carmy
I hope you get better too! My friend has it and it hasn’t been getting better so she’s off to a sports doc to try and get her fasciitis fixed ):
Bri
I have a love/hate relationship with track workouts. I HATE doing them, but it’s the only thing that will make you faster! Luckily I have no time goal runs planned for the next year, so I’m off the hook for now 😉
Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner
Do you ever run after you bike? It’s seriously hard as heck.
Carmy
dear god I don’t think I can! Haha. whenever I do a biking session, I waddle a bit after because I can’t walk straight!
Wendy@Taking the Long Way Home
Great job on the speedwork! Its the workout I love to hate! Or hate to love? Whatever it is, it is certainly effective!
Mar @ Mar on the Run
great work sticking to the speed work! good runs last week. Good luck on your exams!
TOni
Looks like an awesome week! fingers crossed that you have no more injuries!
Kathryn @ Dancing to Running
Wow, what a great week of workouts! Hope you did well on today’s midterm!
Patty @ Reach Your Peak
Just took a pic of that track workout image to have on my phone and try it for my next track workout 🙂 Anything over 800 meters is so hard for me!
Carmy
It was quite fun! Recovery for them were around 200m for each. Longer for the 1000m!
Lauren @ The Bikini Experiment
Great job!I hope you are done with injuries – fingers crossed. 🙂
jill conyers
Great running week. Positive vibes to you for staying injury free.
Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC
sometimes your body just needs that extra week. that’s probably what it was telling you when you slept in!
Carmy
maybe!
Sandra Laflamme
Happy to see that you are back at it! Hopefully you can continue to build your mileage!!
Margo
Hope you did well on your mid-terms!!