Weekly Workouts – doing all the things!

Hello! Wrapping up a full week of training and there are 13 more weeks until the Columbus Marathon. Looking back at my recap I can barely believe I did all of these things this week. It was a whirlwind of fun stuff. I tried to pack it all in, and I think I did a pretty good job. I did run 32 miles and biked 75 miles. Here’s what went down…

Mon – 7 miles, speed workout.  This was a tough one because I woke up from a drug induced coma.  Well, ok, it was a drug induced deep sleep.  Rewind to Sunday when I got bit by a deer fly and had a swollen toe.  I decided to take two Benadryl to combat the itchiness.  In the past I’ve gotten very sleepy from two pills, but I decided to give it a try again.  At 5pm on Sunday I took the pills.  By 8:30pm I was a zombie and had to go to sleep.  No worries, I set my alarm for 5:30am and figured I’d be totally refreshed from all of the sleep!  NOPE. I was groggy and had to turn my alarm until 6am when I forced myself to get up.  Luckily the grogginess didn’t hang around because we spent the day at Cedar Point!  So fun.  It was hot so we went on a water ride, which we haven’t done in years.  It was refreshing walking around in wet clothes for hours 🙂  A fun day!

We also saw a good musical show. Always great to get out of the heat watching a show.

Tues – 4 easy miles.  Feeling a bit better this morning, getting my miles done!  And yahoo, we picked Sydney and her boyfriend up at the airport (Cleveland airport – shoutout to Melissa!).  They had a great time in Europe.

Weds –  Rest day! Sam went to the vet. It has been confirmed, he’s a big boy LOL. But he’s healthy and happy, it’s all good.

Thurs – 6 miles, intervals.  I thought it was time to try out a track workout.  They’ve been on my schedule and I’ve just been ignoring the paces, so today I tackled 4 x 800m and 4 x 400m.  It went well!  I’m happy enough with the paces and my body doesn’t seem to be wrecked afterwards.  That’s a win!

40 mile bike ride.  I have a 63 mile ride coming up soon (metric century!) so I need to get some longer rides in.  Luckily, with a commute to and from the group ride we easily got 40 miles.  This ride was good.  Lower temps meant faster speed.  We rode 26 miles with the group with an average of 18.3 mph!  That is the speed we’ll be doing on the metric century ride, so it’s good to get practice in a similar environment.

Fri – It was a crazy busy day.  And it started with… a 12 miles, long run. I made a rash decision to just knock out my long run today instead of Saturday.  Why not? The temps were lower (hello 66 degrees!) and it was cloudy.  Perfect!  It did end up being a bit boring, but I got it done.

Next, mini golf with my Mom!  I swear the golf course was rigged.  No one got a hole in one and I did really bad.  But, we had fun 🙂

Then, my family went bowling!  My bowling skills weren’t much better than my mini golf, but I did get one strike and once again, it was fun!  

We went out for tacos and then my kids suggested we play tennis before we went out for ice cream.  Sure, why not!  We played for around 30 mins and we totally sucked.  Next time we’ll try pickleball because maybe we’ll be better at that!  Ending the day with some ice cream was a nice treat.

Sat – 3 easy miles.  I woke up feeling a little achy, but everything felt fine after I got moving.   Running done for the week!   Random – take a look at my pot of flowers. Every time I look at it there are fewer flowers in it! The chipmunks (or squirrels) are ruining it! Rude.

In the afternoon we went to a local pump track.  It’s been quite awhile since I’ve been here.  Zach had fun. We had a time trial around the track. Zach got 28 seconds, I did it in 38 seconds, and Alan came in at 40 seconds. (haha, sorry Alan!)

We rode around for a bit on the pump track and then Alan and I rode on the rail-to-trail next to the track.  I definitely want to go back and ride the trail again with my road bike. It was nice!  And oh, did I mention there was a skunk on the trail!  OMG, so cute!!!

Sun –  30 mile bike ride is on tap for today.

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!

I’ll finish up with a kitten update. The 3 fosters are still at our house. We’ll have them for another week! They are cute, but still a little skittish. The tabby was sick and has a bit of catching up to do in terms of weight gain. The fur on the black kittens is so interesting. They have some furry black hair, and some white extra long hair. Kinda like little lions!

Q: Does Benadryl make you sleepy?