The One With Land Of Oz Training {Week 8}

I will keep this short and sweet today; but here is what this past week of workouts looked like:

Week 7 (Feb 4-10)

4 miles + Spin Done

BodyPump Off –worked late

5 miles + hills Off

3 miles 3.5 miles

Off 3.5 miles

Off Done

15 miles (7 with Rach) Done

27+ miles

I was able to get in both spin class and a 4 mile run last Monday, although I swear the treadmill had me running downhill the entire time! I was actually kind of sore through Wednesday because of it.

Tuesday I ended up having to work pretty late and so I took a rest day.

Wednesday was a weird day – Tuesday night I had only gotten about 3 hours of sleep so I wound up leaving work at noon on Wednesday and went home to sleep for about 4 hours. I still wasn’t feeling up to par come workout time and I was still quite sore from Monday so I took another rest day.

Thursday I had a super speedy run! This was a good run for me because I really didn’t want to get out and run at all but I forced myself to run and even went a different route around my church to mix it up a bit. Well about 1.2 miles in I’m running across the street from a house where there is a little girl screaming and crying and asking for someone to help! So I of course run across the street to check on her. She looked about 5 and from what I could gather her mom had left to get her brother, she was in the shower and then all of a sudden the alarm at their house started going off. Long story short the mom was back within about 3 minutes and I just stayed with the girl on the front porch trying to keep her calm. This had happened to me as a child and terrified me so I felt bad for her. The mom was super thankful that I had stayed and I felt good to be able to help. The rest of my run was amazing and I was so glad I went out to run.

On Friday I had to be at the church again so I decided to make up some miles that I had missed Wednesday night and do another 3.5. I ran into a friend from church who was also heading out to do 2 miles and she told me she would join me. I was so glad to have her company and we ended up doing another sub-9:50 paced run! I was super stoked.

Sunday was also an odd day – I knew I was running 7 with Rachel later in the afternoon but I needed 15 for the day so I got up before church and headed out for 8 miles. This was a struggle for me but oddly enough I ended up with a strong pace and the last 2.5 miles were great.

Later that afternoon Rachel, her friend, Alex and I headed out to a park after lunch to get 7 miles in. We did a 6:1 and then eventually 10:1 and the miles just flew by for me. I always love running with my sister and it was nice to have Alex along to (side note: this was the first time he has run since the Dallas Marathon!)

Over all it was a very busy week but a good week for running!

Here’s what this next week will hopefully look like:

Week 8 (Feb 11-17)

Off

BodyPump + 3 miles

5 miles

3 miles + yoga

Off

3 miles

Austin Half Marathon

27+ miles

This next week starts 3 weekends in a row of half marathons for me that I’m super excited about!