Weekly Workouts – Mom’s week

I am now on an 18 day streak with my Bend app.  It’s got a lot of program choices and I also created a custom “post run” stretch so I can be more mindful of getting it done!  My workout schedule was messed up a this week due to a race on Sunday.  Rest day on Monday instead of Weds means I have to run quite a few days in a row.  Luckily it all turned out well.  I ran 32 miles this week.  

Mon – Rest day, PT visit.  Before we drove our son back to Ohio State I went to a PT visit.  After explaining the pain I had from the dry needling last time, and that it didn’t improve things much, it was decided he wouldn’t do that again.  So instead he did a lot of manipulation and massaging my muscles.  I’m conflicted on this course of action so far.  I was hoping something would reduce my “pinching” feeling in my hip more. Although I can say my lower back is feeling almost better, so that’s something.

We made it back home from Columbus in time to watch Ohio State win the National Championship.  Woohoo!!! My son had a great time watching the show on campus. It was a crazy night there!

Tues – 5 miles, with 4 miles of fartleks, 2 mins on / 1 min off.  Oof, I am feeling pretty sore from my PT session yesterday.  He worked on my hamstrings pretty hard.  I also did my stretches, PT exercises and my skiing workout. I took a walk after work, and brrrrr it was really cold out!

Weds – 4 miles, treadmill.   We had an early meeting at work this morning which was actually fun. They gave us sweets and drinks (nope, just orange juice not a mimosa!!).

Thurs – 6 miles, treadmill.  Ideally this would have been outside, but I just wasn’t sure the road or trail conditions.  My street hadn’t been plowed yet and I didn’t want to risk a fall.  4 middle miles on this run was at marathon pace.

I filled my Mom’s calendar with all sorts of fun events this week. Today’s trip out of the house took us to the casino! We didn’t win anything but we had fun.

Fri – 5 miles.  I made it outside!  That is all 🙂 

And oh yeah, a gym visit!

Today’s fun activity – we saw a show at the University Planetarium. We learned all about neutrinos. No, I still don’t fully understand what neutrinos are, but they are looking for them in Antarctica. These shows are always interesting!

Sat –  12 miles, long run.  My training plan did call for only a 10 miles long run this week, but due to my upcoming travel plans I’m not sure what running will happen.  Better to get this done now!  I don’t have photographic proof, but I did run into every training group out on their run today so it was a quite a social run for me!  My husband was a sweetie and brought home a Starbucks for me.

Sun –  Rest day!  I did stretch and did a core workout.  And, I finally took down our outside Christmas lights!  Most importantly, it’s my Mom’s 85th birthday today! 

So what’s going on with my back and pinchy leg situation?  I was supposed to have another PT visit on Monday (coming up), but things just don’t seem to be progressing as I’d hoped.  We are heading out for a ski trip soon so I’ll just wait until I we return to continue with those appointments (or heck, maybe I won’t need them!).  The time off from running might just settle things down (wishful thinking!).

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: Casino fans… what games would you play?

We stuck with the slot machines. It’s shocking how fast. you can lose your money! 😆