Three Things Thursday

1. I came home last night, after work, and....

CROSS TRAINED.

25 minutes of arms (with weights, what), 15 min core pilates, and 10 minutes easy yoga. I use an app on my phone with a variety of tabata-style workouts, by Skimble. I'm cheap so I have only the free access, but there's a paid access option too, with more options. For me, these are fine - I'm not invested enough to pay money for an app, when I have tons of other options available to me.

I always forget that I really like doing this stuff when I do it. Dumb, me.


2. We have been hunting for a new place recently, and have come across some real gems in our search.

Did you know rentals in OC (and other parts of SoCal) often don't incldue a refrigerator?

Listed among "features" of a LOT of places are things like, "Sidewalks" and "Curbs" and "Paved Roads". What. You guys, that is not a FEATURE in OC. That's, like, normal existence.

We'll likely be moving out of our current neighborhood, which is good/bad. Good because it's super expensive, our rent has gone up AGAIN, and we'll save a boatload by moving out of the area. We've done a lot of research on the surrounding areas and schools, and think we've narrowed it down to a few communities. Bad because moving is just a giant pain in the ass, and I hate it. Also, everywhere we're looking at is hilly hilly hilly - good for my running/bad for pain levels?

Anyway.

3. This is the truth. The whole truth.



BONUS! This, too, is the truth.

 

 

Happy Thrusday!

Plan for the Week - 5 weeks to SFM

Going into Eugene, I clearly had some training exhaustion going on. Not that I was over-trained, just that I was.... over it. All of it.

Truth be told, I wasn't really excited about running, and slacked on my training, which made running harder, which made me unexcited to run.... in a circle.

I get a wicked case of race-envy, and ended up running 5 marathons in the last 11 months. Maybe that was too much for me.

So, in an effort to enjoy running and training again, I decided to actively recover/rebuild my base after Eugene. I don't have a goal for SFM, but it would be nice to not feel like I'm dying. I've pretty much jumped back into training after every race for the last year, so - as an experiment - I took one week totally off, and am building back in very slowly.

Good news, I feel great?

Last week....
Monday: nothing

Tuesday: 4 miles easy, strength
This was actually harder on me than I thought, which is LAME because my "strength" was just a 15 minute circuit. I felt it for days. What.

Wednesday: rest

Thursday: 4 miles easy

Friday: rest

Saturday: accidental rest
I intended to do 3 miles easy, but a quick 2 hour car repair turned into a 9 hour death march through the mall while a billion expensive things had to get done to our car. No running, plenty of mall wandering.

Sunday: "long" run
5 miles, easy easy easy pace.

Lessons from the week: ummm I didn't hate it? That's pretty promising. While I do miss all of the eating I could do when running 18 miles in one shot, I am kind of digging the shorter mileage and all the freeeeee time. Also of note, in my current state, 10:45ish seems to be my current "easy" pace. So... there's that? I know no one cares about your pace, but maybe I'll want to know this information some day? Eh.

This week:
Monday: rest
Tuesday: 4 easy
Wednesday: strength - arms, yoga?
Thursday: 5 miles, hills
Friday: strength
Saturday: 3 miles and/or yoga
Sunday: 7-8 easy


Happy mother's day?

Three Things Thursday

1. The H has been following some super intense 90 day workout stuff, like a P90X type program. I originally bought it AGES ago, when I thought it would be a nice compliment to the 10-15 miles a week I was running. Turns out, running 30-40 mile weeks, it's way less interesting. Also, it looked really hard and unfun. Anyway, he's about 70 days in, and... man. It works.

And, since yesterday was cross training day, and he was doing arms/chest, I decided to join him!

I've been pretty regularly doing some arm program I have on an app on my phone (so it MUST be legit...), and thought it was okay.

And last night, doing the DVD stuff, I was like, eh. This is a little hard, but not terrible.
But this morning? Hello, triceps. Ouch.

Verrrrrrrry tricky, DVD. Very tricky.


2. Our weather has been glorious and cool for a few days. Today? High around 80. By Saturday and Sunday (when I'm supposed to run 5 and 20 miles, respectively)? High 90. WHAT IS THAT, SO CAL?? Stop being so rude.

I had grand cooking plans, involving empenada dough and beef stew this weekend. Out the window, I guess. Rude.


3. Tuesday night, after an arduous day at the office (not really), a hard run (really), then having to go to the store, and FINALLY getting home around 8, I step out of my car, and almost right on top of a damn giant vicious BUG.


I told the girls, and #2 and #3 wanted to go laugh at me check it out. After some net wrangling....
The H captured it so we could all glare look at it...

VICIOUS

...before releasing it back into the wild. RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY CAR. I'm telling you, getting to my car the next morning, in the dark, was terrifying. Something that looks like that surely holds a grudge.