Weekly workouts – 8 weeks to go

8 more weeks to go until the Glass City half marathon! For me, it’s not really about the race. It’s a whole event for me. I’m signed up to help set up the finish area, work at packet pickup, working at the kids races, being a sub coach for the marathon/half marathon training group and … next week I’ll be starting a new role as coach for the 5K training plan! Yes, I do love our local race 🙂 I started out as a 5K coach seven years ago with the Dave’s Running training plan, so you can say I’m going back to where it all started. This week I ran 26 miles which was a cut back week. But I did manage to fill up my calendar with a lot of other stuff because a busy Lisa = a happy Lisa! Here’s what went down…

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!

Mon – 3 miles running, treadmill. Due to forecasted bad weather later in the week, I went for a park walk with my Mom today. 2.25 miles in 45 mins. Perfect timing!

Tues – 6 miles with 8 x 800m intervals. This was a good workout! The temps were warmer than they looked, so clothes were shed. It was 55 degrees at 7am. Probably should have worn shorts, but that just seemed odd when I looked out the window. I was pleased to see my intervals were pretty consistently around 8:20. I do love how Garmin breaks down the info on intervals! My watch made it look like my heart was going to explode, BUT I did discuss the situation with my Dr just recently and he did not have any reason to be concerned with it.

I took a lunch walk and was able to finish my audiobook. I am loving this series! Has anyone else read it? So well written and entertaining. At night I went out to dinner with my Mom. I don’t know what I was thinking when I ordered this turkey club sandwich. The egg made it pretty messy and gross. And, I’m not a huge fan of turkey!

Weds – Rest day! Lucky thing for today… I found some money in an old pair of jeans. Winning!! I went out to dinner with a group of friends, but took no pictures. Lame! The sangria was good, and we spent 3 hours talking at the restaurant. We have plans to get together for a game of bunco, and hopefully some scheduled games beyond that. We used to play monthly bunco about 10 years ago, but then life got busy. I am really looking forward to it!

Thurs – 7 mile pace run. This had a mile warm up and cool down, with 5 in the middle at race pace. This went well!

Fri – Rest day! What, another rest day? 😐 I opted for some cross training and did the elliptical, PT and an abs workout. It was a good start to the day!

Sat – 10 miles, long run! This run was more of a social event. I ran into the parents of my son’s girlfriend, so I walked a bit and chatted with them. I also ran into every training group from the MIT plan (which I ran with last week). There were at least 18 groups, so yeah, a lot of people! I was running opposite direction so everyone said Hi as they passed. All in all, this was a decent run. A bit dreary out, but seeing everyone was the highlight.

My mom and I took a few more walks this afternoon. She came over to my house and I took her to my local parks. She enjoyed the change of scenery I think and I got to show her all of the places I run. After that, we supported the local ice cream shop on opening day. yum, yum, yum!

Sun – Rest day! I am feeling a bit sore from my solo long run, which was faster than my previous two weeks. The big thing on tap for today is a ride on our new bikes!!!! It’s still a bit chilly, but we want to get some miles on them. Fingers crossed I can figure out the new technology on them and don’t fall over on the first day out. haha!!!

I did read everyone’s blogs this past week, but often I end up reading them on my phone later in the week and most don’t have the ability to easily comment from a mobile device. So, if I didn’t get to comment on your blog, I do apologize! I will make an effort to do so this week.

And finally, did you know…. my town will be in the path of the solar eclipse on April 8th!! Yep, we will be in totality! We went to a show at the university planetarium. It’s going to be so cool!! (yes, I have already requested my time off from work to witness this event! 😉)

Q: Have you ever seen a solar eclipse?

We had a partial eclipse several years ago. It was so freaky being in the darkness during the day!!