Weekly workouts – GCM training, week 4

Week 4 of training for the Glass City Marathon is complete.  It was a good week of training, and a crazy busy week personally.  I had to work 5 days instead of my usual 3 day, and that just left me a bit exhausted (yes, I’m soft.  LOL!).  What can I say, I really like my routine and days off work!  I ran 30.5 miles and walked almost 5 miles. Overall my hamstring issues are improving – maybe a combination of PT work, work load, a couple of other things? I’m happy with it so far! I run 124 miles in January, and walked 27 miles.

Mon – 4 miles treadmill.  A few less miles than last Monday due to a tougher workout later this week.  Nothing exciting about this run other than it felt good!  Our PM workout had us doing one of my “favorites” (the kind of favorite that makes you say UGGGHH every time they show up on the workout), Renegade Rows!  Our weekly team challenge is burpees, so we also did 10 burpees to end our workout (even though I also did 10 in the morning, go me!).

Tues – 5 miles Track Night!  Despite being able to sleep in this morning, I woke up early.  It always happens that way, right?  My day was cram packed.  I ended up working at all three of my jobs today… most of the day at the bank, a meeting at my network admin side job, and in the evening I was a running coach!  BUSY day.  Our intervals for fartleks are getting longer (3 mins on, 1 min off x 8).

Weds – Rest day from running, strength workout in the PM.  I was pretty tired when I got home from work, but we got the workout done.  We did Marcia’s Standing Abs and Strength Workout video.

Thurs – 7 miles, speedwork!  I can’t really call this Tempo Thursday, but today’s run incorporated race pace and threshold miles.  2 miles warm up, 1 mile RP, 1 mile T, 1 mile RP, 1 mile T, 1 mile cool down.  I was excited to see if I could do the paces I wanted to, and excited when they happened!  Don’t get me wrong, it was challenging, so maybe a little too fast for me – but I’m keeping the option out there.

We celebrated my parents’ birthdays, which are 5 days apart.  My mom is 81 and my dad is 83.  Dinner followed by cake and ice cream.  Happy birthday to them!!

Fri – 4 easy treadmill miles.  It was tough to get out of bed this morning, but I did it.  Felt a bit tight but felt better afterwards.  My warm up glute activation exercises have been helping out. A standing option makes more sense for me than something like glute bridges.  I won’t be doing glute bridges before I do outdoor runs, so this works well!

I took a walk with my friend to catch up. We haven’t talked forever and ended up going for almost 5 miles! Then I had a date night with my husband and we went out for a drink.  It was a nice end to the work week.

Sat – 10 miles, long run.  After a much needed good night’s sleep, I was ready to go!  The sunrise was just amazing and it set the tone for our run.  The miles went by fast as we chatted away.  The full marathoners ran 10 miles and the half did 6 miles.

Afterwards I brought some donuts home to the family. The production of Krispy Kreme donuts is mesmerizing! 🙂

Sun – Rest day!  We got snow!  Very exciting for sure. I’ve been catching up on some projects. My daughter and I made this wreath for the front door. We couldn’t find any pine “parts” in the stores so I just stole some from my other holiday decorations. The left is the inspiration photo. I think it turned out good!

Need some more inspiration? I’m linking up with Deborah at Confessions of a Mother Runner and Kim from Running on the Fly for their Weekly Run Down. Check out all of the fun blogs there!

Q:  What’s an exercise that makes you say UGGHH every time?

Renegade Rows and PUSHUPS.  I hate pushups!!

Q: Are you addicted to Pinterest?

I’m not! I’d say Instagram gets more of my time, especially recently because I only have happy stuff in my Instagram feed compared to my FB feed.