the week's end: week 3 stats
At the end of each week I plan on including a running miles/workout stats, so that I can track my progress over time. I missed my first two weeks, but I gotta start somewhere, so here it goes.
Summary
Running:
Sunday–6; This was our long run for the week. It felt really good.
Monday–2; This was just a short run to shake out the soreness from the long run. We took it slow.
Wednesday–4; Wow, the day I froze. This is when the temps plummeted and we haven’t seen the 20′s since then.
Thursday–7; These miles were split. 4 I ran on my own in the afternoon, and 3 later that same night with Keren. Oh yeah, it was snowing.
Friday–2; A quick to miles to check how my speed is improving. 8:43 pace. I need to keep working on that.
Total Miles: 21
Not bad. I did log 23 miles last week and I should be increasing as the weeks go by, not going the other direction. However I did start doing more cross training this week with the Jazzercise. I went to a regular (hour-long) class on both Monday and Tuesday nights, and a 30-minute express class on Thursday (in between the 7 miles of running)
My favorite part of the week was yesterday morning. I found out that I didn’t have to be a work at 8am like usual, so KT came over for some strength training and core work. It was fabulous. I am quite sore today and last night she was sending me text messages about how she couldn’t move because of the workout.
I can’t lie. I do love a little soreness. It makes me feel like I did something, like I earned a badge of some kind. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an advocate of prolonged muscle fatigue or pain. But, as I’m going about my day I like to be reminded of the hard work that I put in the day before. It actually motivates me to do something again today.
