Week In Review: August 19th - August 25th, 2019
Monday:
Scheduled: Run - 3.3 miles Easy
Actual: Run - 3.36 miles Easy/LR Intervals, 46:33 minutes, 13:52 min/mi avg pace
I felt like crap, I didn’t want to do this run, it sucked … I’m officially counting down the days until November 4th when I can STOP TRAINING!!!! I’m 99% sure I’m not going to do formal training for Princess and I’ll just wing it like I did over the summer, try to get in an 8-10 miler, and then run easy on race day.
Race Update:
I decided to do the NB Fifth Avenue Mile … but my heat is sold out (the heats are divided by age group). Grr. What is with everything selling out super early this year??
I think I want to do another race before the marathon, but all of my pre-marathon options are sold out. So … gotta do more research.
I did register for the $25 virtual race 5K series (or as I like to call it … adult participation medal), but that doesn’t really count. That’s just me making questionable life decisions.
Medal Update:
When I got home from Philly last night, I noticed that my medals had all fallen down. So I’m thinking about getting a medal holder. Now I just have to decide how much I’m willing to pay and what medal holder I want to get. Raw Threads has some pretty ones that I like, but they’re $60, and I’m not here for that.
Tuesday:
Scheduled: barre3
Actual: barre3 with Jenna
Really good class! It wasn’t easy, but I felt strong throughout. If I hadn’t had errands to run, I might have stayed for a second class (when I was stretching after class Jenna asked if I wanted to, since apparently the next class was not very full … I said I didn’t have time).
Wednesday:
Scheduled: R Pace - 1 mi @ WU + (1x200m @ R w/ 200m RI) + (4x300m @ R w/ 300m RI) + (1x200m @ R w/ 200m RI) + 1 mi @ CD
Actual: Run - 4.11 miles, 54:21 minutes, 13:13 min/mi avg pace
R Pace - 67s (200m); 111s, 117s, 116s (300m); 64s (200m)
Sigh. With it being hot and humid when I woke up, I considered doing an easy run instead of R pace, but then decided to do this. Wrong decision. The weather really zapped me. Ugh.
At least it’s over.
200m intervals are a drop fast and 300m intervals are a drop slow, which means that either 300m is too tough of a distance for me mentally or I measured wrong.
Baseball - New York-Penn League (Short Season A) All-Star Game at Staten Island! Bernie Williams was inducted into the NY Penn League Hall of Fame, so he was there, which was cool. The game started late due to rain and was just a very slow game, so we left during the 7th inning stretch (10:30ish).
Tried the SI Yankees beer (“Pizza Rat Pilsner” (named after an alternate name that they use), made by Flagship Brewing Company) but was not impressed.
All’s well that ends well … got a picture with my favorite mascot,
Scooter the Holy Cow:
Marathon Interlude:
I realized that I have to eat something before the marathon, and I have to figure out what, since I normally run first thing in the morning and don’t eat a meal before my run. But since I won't be starting before 11 (probably closer to 11:30) and likely won’t finish until 5ish, I can’t wait until that late to eat my first meal of the day (even though I’ll be fueling during the run). Gotta think about this.
Thursday:
Scheduled: barre3
Actual: barre3 with Amanda!
Was originally signed up for an 8:30am class, but after a late night and getting home tired, I decided to do a 12:15pm instead. Definitely the right choice, because this class was exactly what I needed today. I felt strong throughout, felt like I was challenging myself, and came out feeling super accomplished!
Also, there was a point in the class where I’m pretty sure Amanda read my mind. While every class is different, they all follow the same general structure, and after we finish combo work with weights, there’s usually one last cardio burst before we move on to core work. There are a lot of different options that the instructors use for the cardio burst, but today I was kinda in the mood for something called barre3 burpees (it’s basically a burpee broken down into pieces). And, lo and behold, we put down the weights and went into barre3 burpees. Clearly Amanda read my mind (although she said she didn’t know she was reading my mind when I mentioned this after class).
Friday:
Scheduled: Run - 3.3 mi Easy
Actual: 3.32 mi EC, 43:35 minutes, 13:08 min/mi avg pace
This run was unexceptional.
Then like 4 hours later I remembered that this was supposed to be my NYRR Virtual World Championship 5K. Oops. It was my last chance to do it (unless I wanted to do an unplanned 5K on Sunday, which I didn’t, since next week is another 5 run week), so I just changed it to a race on Strava. My official time was very slow (47:52) because stop lights and breaks to change my music and whatnot.
Saturday:
Scheduled: Rest Day!
Actual: Rest Day
Someone in my facebook running group posted a meme that was 100% accurate for my life.
...although the medal doesn't help me that much with the friends thing.
Sunday:
Scheduled: Rest Day
Actual: Rest Day
Thought about doing a barre3 online class in the morning, but decided to sleep in instead.
Baseball - Lehigh Valley IronPigs (Phillies AAA affiliate). They were playing the Scranton Wilkes-Barre Railriders, the Yankees AAA affiliate (or as I call them, the Teenage Yankees), so we wore Yankees hats and sat on the visitors side. The giveaway was - I kid you not - a jar of air. I got nothing to say about that. Luke Voit (Yankees first baseman) was rehabbing, so I basically just took a million pictures of him because he’s awesome and I love seeing rehabbing major leaguers. Teenage Yankees lost, though
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LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKE!
Upcoming:
Monday - 2.5 miles Easy, barre3
Tuesday - 3.3 miles Easy
Wednesday - 6 miles Easy
Thursday - 2.5 miles Easy, barre3
Friday - R Pace - 1 mi @ WU + 5x300m @ R w/ 300m RI + 1 mi @ CD
Saturday - Rest Day!
Sunday - Rest Day!
Last week of this plan, and it’s a peak week! Will have to chat with coach about the marathon plan and get that set up.
Was planning to test out the Launch 6 on Tuesday’s 3.3 miler, but FedEx is stupid and now they’re not expected to show up until Tuesday, so I have to decide if I want to be aggressive with them and start them at a 6 miler or wait a day and do the much shorter 2.5 miles, which likely won’t tell me anything about them (ultimately I need a 10 miler to know if they work, but I’m not getting to that for a little bit). EDIT: And now they're supposed to show up Monday again. We'll see what happens. Oh FedEx...