Week In Review: July 22nd - 28th, 2019
Monday:
Scheduled: Run - 3.3 miles @ Easy
Actual: Rest Day
Life Interlude:
Went to my first tech conference. I've got some *thoughts* on it, that I'll be sharing with my tech community, but the tl;dr is that the info was good, but I suck at people.
Tuesday:
Scheduled: barre3
Actual: Run - 3.31 miles @ EC (Easy Continuous), 38:33 minutes, 11:39 min/mi
Goal pace for EC is 13:00 min/mi, so this was a bit off, but it’s not a huge deal. Because I wasn’t sure how I’m feeling about my fitness and the idea of pushing for a more ambitious goal, I decided to have Coach base my paces on my result from Broad Street Run, which was a comfortable race (minus the rain), but probably not full effort. So the paces are slower than they’ve been in a while (or actually … ever). This doesn’t bother me much because I’ve always done easy runs by effort, not pace, so I just run whatever pace feels easy (although honestly, this run could have been a drop easier) and don’t worry about what I’m supposed to be running.
The only place I was a bit concerned about that was the R Pace runs, but Coach said those are more about consistency and avoiding the fade (which has always been a struggle for me), so I’ll play around a bit to find the pace where I’m most consistent.
If I’m trending faster in all of my runs, then we can adjust the paces for marathon training. Which is another advantage of doing this pre-marathon plan - since I haven’t been doing much structured training lately (although I was still running), this gives me a better idea of where I should be for marathon training.
Baseball - Trenton Thunder! (aka my favorite minor league team aka Baby Yankees). So … this was a little bit of a mess. The game the night before had been cancelled, so they played a double header - two 7-inning games, starting at 5:30 PM (original start time was 7). But … gates didn’t open until 6 PM (5:30 for season ticket holders). So we missed the first 1.5ish innings, including missing seeing a top Yankees prospect, who was supposed to be pitching but got taken out after like 4 batters with a possible injury. So that was interested. We did get bobbleheads, though, which was good.
Stayed through the second inning of the second game, but it was raining and we didn’t want to stay any longer.
Wednesday:
Scheduled: R Pace - 1.5 mi WU + 6 x 200m @ R w/ 200m RI + 1 mi @ CD
Actual: 4.08 miles, 51:02 minutes, 12:30 min/mi
R Pace Intervals - 88s (watch issue), 71s, 70s, 69s, 69s, 67s
So … it turns out I did okay on my first R Pace run! Coach says I was right on target, and could probably go a little faster with a longer (time-wise) RI. Which means either longer distance or slowing down the RI.
Did this on the track at Riverside Park, which is dirt (not like random loose dirt, packed dirt, but not pavement or cinder or whatever tracks are normally made of), and not in the best shape.
Thursday:
Scheduled: barre3
Actual: barre3 with Katie!
This was my first class back since the fall, and I’ve been having some random pains in my arm, starting in the left arm (that’s what I talked about last week), but also now in the right arm. Before class I mentioned it to Katie, and we talked a drop about modifying. Any time I was supposed to have my hands on the floor/barre I had to move to my forearms because I couldn’t put any weight through my hands, but otherwise it was a decent class.
Right wrist got much much worse later in the day (after I did some cleaning … hmm), so we’ll see how the next few days go.
Friday:
Scheduled: Run - 3.3 miles @ Easy
Actual: Run - 3.33 miles @ Easy/LR Intervals, 46:02 minutes, 13:48 min/mi
Went down Central Park West for a change of pace, but otherwise unexceptional run. Was going to go to a different drugstore than usual at the end of my run, but it wasn’t open, so I went to the usual drugstore.
Wrist hurt a lot while I was cooking (by the time I got to mincing garlic I was pretty much screaming in pain, so I did a bad job with the garlic), but okay when I wasn’t using it. Still thinking that barre on Sunday is probably a bad idea, though.
Saturday:
Rest Day!
Sunday:
Scheduled: barre3 or Rest Day
Actual: Rest Day
Wrist is still bothering me a little, so I took the day. Feeling really crappy about the decision because I haven’t gotten out of the house at all today because I have no friends and therefore can’t make plans with friends even if I want to and I didn’t have any ideas for things to do by myself, so I basically mostly treated today like a weekday, other than sleeping in.
Upcoming:
Monday - 2 miles Easy, barre3?
Tuesday - 2.5 miles Easy
Wednesday - 5.5 miles Easy
Thursday - 2 miles Easy
Friday - R Pace - 1 mi WU + 2 sets of (4x200m @ R w/ 200m RI) w/ 5 min RI between sets + 0.5 mi CD
Saturday - Rest Day!
Sunday - Rest Day!