Weekly Workouts – all the fun

Just as I was complaining about the heat and humidity last week, the weather took a turn and it was wonderful.  I packed in a lot of things this week, from volunteering and riding roller coasters to running and riding.  37 miles of running and 80 miles of riding.

Sun – Just a couple of pics from last Sunday.  I made it out for a 40 mile ride in the morning before breakfast.  My rear was feeling a bit sore after that.  It was my longest ride of the season so far.

Also, my husband made good on his promise to go kayaking with me 🙂 The water in the quarry was really warm!

Mon – 5 easy miles.  A little left over water around my hood.  Hello Monday!  I took Muchacha in for a little cough she has.  We’ll only have her for another week.  She’s a short term visitor!  I was glad it was a drizzly day.  Bad weather forces me to stay inside and get things done.  Like all of the housework I have been avoiding because it’s “too nice to be inside”.

Tues – 8 miles with 6 at race pace.  This run was good, but also a fail!  The purpose of this run was to get comfortable with race pace, but honestly, the weather was feeling so good it made this run easy!  Recently I would cringe at having to run pace miles, but not today folks.  Not today!  It was 68 degrees and drizzly.  It felt amazing.  Instead of 9:00, I was easily hitting 8:50. Hooray for that! 

17.5 miles, Ladies Ride Night!  How about when you randomly show up in your Cyclewerks gear and so does everyone else?  I think we make good models for the bike shop! 😉 

It was another fun group ride with pretty big groups.  We enjoyed tacos afterwards too.  Yum!

Weds – Rest day! No group ride tonight – my day was filled with our last high school registration day.  (sniff, sniff!)  I helped at the band info table and with registration. It was fun to see all of the kids!

Thurs – 3 miles, running.  Just a quick run around the neighborhood to start my morning.  Today was a tour of the University of Toledo with our son.  It was a good tour and we got to visit the college of engineering too.  Good information!  

Fri – 21 miles, long run.  I had some great luck for my loooong run today.  It was only 55 degrees at the start and less humidity.  It felt great!!  I went to a trail I haven’t been on in a long time and kept taking pictures.  It was really pretty!

I even took the time to stretch while I was at the park instead of my usual MO of driving straight over to Starbucks after my run.  It felt good – I jumped for joy, it was great start to my day! 21 miles with avg 9:24 pace.

We decided to make the most of the remaining time together before school starts, so we played mini golf.  Fun times!

And then, let’s go to Cedar Point!  Seriously, it would be a shame to pass up 70 degree weather.  I ended my day with 51,337 steps!  We couldn’t stay super late because we had a big bike ride in the morning.

Sat – 64 miles, biking!  We started at 7:30am and rode with a big group.  At one point there were 30 of us riding together!  Riding in a big group like that made it soooo easy. 

My legs didn’t feel sore at all from my long run, and we rode fast.  Overall rolling speed was 18.5 average.  We finished in 3 ½ hours on the bike, but time flew by so fast it seemed much quicker. 

Someone in our group made a video and I grabbed a couple of screenshots. We were a rolling party!

Sun – Rest day.  We do have a Toledo Hens game (minor league baseball) on our schedule, so hopefully the rain won’t stop the game.   

We sure will miss Muchacha! What a cutie 😊

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: Do you find it hard to stay inside and work during the summer?

Q: What’s the last movie you saw (recent release, at home or in the theatre)?

Last week was Minions, which was good. We just watched Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Dislike!! So confusing.