Happy Monday! I hope you’re refreshed after your 3-day weekend, holiday fun, or whatever the week was for you. As for me, it was only a 1-day weekend, because of my super busy work week. I tried to juggle family, triathlon training, and work this week and it all turned out okay until Sunday, my only day off. Here’s my training recap for the past week!
Monday – Rest day for me! I dropped my son off at his first day of a camp that morning before work, so it was kind of hectic. Don’t you think the Ironman 70.3 backpack is a good fit for a sports camp?
Tuesday – I wasn’t able to get in my workout that morning, so I was determined to do it at night. I loved my evening on the bike trainer – it was my “zen time” of the day after a really hard day on many levels. I spent one hour watching Parenthood on Netflix with no distractions and not thinking about stressful stuff – bliss. Sometimes you just have to sweat off the stress of the day.
Ooh – at lunch earlier that day, I met up with my buddies Courtney and Mar – pics in last week’s Friday Five post!
Wednesday – The LUNA Chix track workout was great – we did a descending ladder of 1600, 1200, 800, 400 with increasing effort to max for the last lap. My pace was 8:37 / 8:28 / 7:56 / 7:21 for the intervals so I felt incredible doing what I was supposed to do and hitting my targets! Often I’m overtired from getting up so early for it, so it was great to actually increase the effort as the intervals decreased in length. With the warm-up, cool-down, and a recovery lap between each interval it was 4.25 miles of awesome.
Then at lunch I joined the yoga class they have in my building at work. I always intend to go and never do since Wednesdays are typically pretty busy in the office. I decided to sign up for the summer session since being committed makes me go more than thinking I’ll drop in sometime. It was so great to reconnect with yoga since I had gotten out of my yoga-mode from the Spring! I was feeling really stiff and sore from the cycling and running and it was just what I needed.
Thursday – I had to work all day at work through an evening outdoor rehearsal for our Fourth of July concert, so I *had* to get in my workout in the morning. That was motivating and I woke up energized for it.
I got the kids’ breakfast ready, pushed it back on the counter so the Great Dane wouldn’t eat it, paused a TV show for the kids, and filled my water bottles. Hopped on the trainer for my hour-long “strength builder” workout.
5 minutes later?
“Mama! Mama! Where are you?” I got off the bike, changed a poopy diaper, and got the kids set with breakfast.
Back on the trainer.
And of course – more interruptions: deep discussions about Minecraft survival mode, arguing about how many pieces of toast a kid can eat for breakfast, and getting off the bike yet again to change the TV show. It was good to get it done despite the interruptions.
Friday – I had the day off work, but had to head downtown for a rehearsal at about 4pm. Masters Swimming was being held at 8am instead of the crack of dawn due to the holiday, so I was happy I could sleep in a bit after getting home from work at almost midnight.
I swam with two other ladies who were faster than me, and it was good to try to keep up and push myself. I cut some of the 200s to 150s and did pull instead of kick, and got in 2500 meters. It felt great, but frustrating to work so hard to keep up and not be able to. I need to get some help with my stroke.
I had the luxury of a few hours off with the kids all taken care of, so after I picked my husband up from the car repair shop, we had a “date lunch” for sushi!
Then it was off tow work, where I ran into Courtney at our dress rehearsal!
Saturday – The Fourth of July. Not a day off for me, but a really crazy busy day. It was pouring rain during the day, so I got in an hour on the trainer. It felt like my house was a thousand degrees.
After that, I showered and drove my daughter, au pair, her friend, my parents, niece, and nephew down to the July 4 concert. I ran around all evening at work, and it was a little stressful. But then the concert was fun!
Don’t you love my dad photobombing in the background?
I was home by 12:15am and totally exhausted, but unable to sleep until almost 2am!
Sunday – My husband got up with the boys and let me sleep in a couple of extra hours, so I thought I’d feel great and go out for my scheduled 6-mile run. But I was so tired from working until late, and just felt worn out and exhausted. And my legs were throbbing from working on my feet.
I took it easy all morning and just spent time with the boys, did household chores, and figured I’d run in the afternoon.
And that’s how I get in a workout snag.
By the afternoon time started flying. I made a lovely salad for lunch, which took so long it made me appreciate salad bars even more. The chopping is so annoying, but after a few nights at work eating chips and other junk, I really needed to get back on track with my diet.
The whole family had a Skype date with our former au pair in France at 3pm. Then I took my oldest and youngest to the pool for a little while, still intending to do my run before dinner.
But it was so much fun. And so relaxing. So we stayed. And played.
And relaxed.
And you know what? I really needed that. I felt guilty about missing my run because I wanted to do it. But sacrificing the exercise for fun times with my kids just felt right.
I made a great dinner, which was fun since I rarely cook lately. Then we watched the Women’s World Cup and watching this awesome game with my daughter was really neat. She was so inspired and motivated, being a young female soccer player.
But no run. I’m sure that if I had a treadmill it would have happened, but it just did not.
So where does that leave me?
Well, I want to RUN. The only running I did since last weekend was the track workout. And while that was great and worthwhile, it wasn’t satisfying for the reasons that I love running. I’m dying to go outside and just run. I missed that in my week!
So… on to a new week.
I’ll likely skip posting a training recap for this coming week since I have a medical procedure on Tuesday morning, which will leave me unable to exercise for a couple days, as well as barred from swimming for about 5 days. So there might not be much in the way of workout pics to post on Instagram and recap here on the blog this week, but I’ll keep you posted!
Sunday is the Maryland Olympic Duathlon (see link for last year’s recap), so I plan to still go out and give it a whirl, despite the scaled back week I’ll have this week. I’ll be fine by the weekend!
How did you spend the Fourth of July?
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