Weekly Workouts 10.17.16

Monday-Strength Training; Swimming

Tuesday-3 Mile Run

Wednesday- Spin Class

Thursday-TRX Class

Friday-Spin Class

Saturday-5k race here in my hometown?

Sunday- Rest

Have a happy, healthy week!

Yours in WLS,

Bill Mac

Good luck on you race. Let me know how it goes.

Monday H.I.I.T class and a light run to start breaking in my new running shoes. have 3 weeks to get them broken in before my next race

Tue power yoga and 60 minute run

wed master swim

Thursday strength training

Friday run

Saturday run

sunday if weather is nice bike ride and dog walking

My race on Saturday went well!  It was good mentally in a way that other races haven't been.  I think I might have turned a corner - for the first time I found myself thinking "You know, you can run faster than this."  I'm looking forward to trying when I resume training tomorrow.  

Monday - rest
Tuesday - running/stretching
Wednesday - pilates class
Thursday - running/stretching
Friday - piyo class, tai chi class, pilates class
Saturday - yoga at home
Sunday - running/stretching

Glad you had a great race. Feels great when it all comes together at the right time. What was your distance and time

It was a 5k (the same 5k that was my first ever race 2 years before!) and my time was 51:30.  Two years ago it was 55 and I was worried I wouldn't beat the race cut off or that I'd die.  This year I found myself thinking, "you can run faster than you're running, you just need to get over whatever fear you have that's stopping you."  

I think I'm afraid of running faster and collapsing because I can't move anymore.  Which sounds silly when I type it out, but it's the truth.  Most of the time I'm training, though, it's in my development and I'm never more than a mile away from home and there's normally someone at home that I could call to get me if I were desperate.  So I need to start working on pushing myself more and not caring so much about reaching my limit.  That's really scary for me for some reason though.  :/ 

May I ask do you try and run non stop or do you take walk breaks. 

I had one trainer once say to me that I was stuck in a box and I needed to get myself out of the box. I would not push myself in my runs and my workout. It was like there were was something stopping me. She pushed me a lot and I was able to come out of the box. I am not a fast runner and I will never be fast but I am faster than what i was and now I know I need to work on holding that speed for longer time.  

The hardest thing I find and it sounds like you a bit is how much do you give but still have enough to finish and cross that line. That is the hard part to learn.

Try going further away from home the worst that can happen is you will have to walk. 

It will come together for you. Keep up the good work you did an amazing job with your race and be proud

I do intervals and sprints and try to vary things up.  Your trainer sounds great!  My partner tries to give me the same sort of advice as it sounds like your trainer did :)

I am definitely proud of myself with this.  As I tell people, 3 years ago, if given the choice between being eaten by a bear and running, I would have opted for the death by bear.  Now I'm running races!  I've got my first half marathon in March! It's super exciting :D  

What you say your challenge is definitely sounds like mine.  I've got that fear that I'll just collapse and NOT be able to make it over the finish line (or back home) but, really, worst case is that I have to walk.  REALLY worst case is that I have to call home for a ride :P  Either way, it's not really that awful, right? :)

you are right bro  

right nothing wrong in making a call or walking home.

Instead of measuring how far why don't you go by time. I do all my training by time and it has worked. build it up by 10 minutes more a run. So if you know you can run 1 hour than add 10 minute. you would do 35 minute and 35 minute back.  than you add 10 more to that the following week. Just an idea.

If you like when it gets closer to train for your half marathon I would share you my training schedule that I did for my first. Just need to have an idea on how long you think it will take you

Thank you!  :D  

My current training plan is time based actually - I'm working through the Zombies Run 5k Training plan which is always fun.  But normally my training is distance based in "number of loops" in the development.  

I'm planning on starting my half training plan on 11/8.  I run three times a week and that gives me 18 weeks before the race.  It's based on the half marathon plan from Runkeeper so I basically do two short runs and one long run a week, increasing my run:walk intervals.  I'm also going to add in sprints at the end of one of my short runs each week.  (Sprints will be more like fartleks.. when I get to the four-way stop before my house I'll do sprints between driveways until I get home.)

I'm excited. :D