Weekly workouts – what a whirlwind!

Let me just start this week’s recap off with… my husband is mad at me.  He’s mad because I crammed this week with too much stuff 😆  As I’m typing this he is driving our truck, pulling the camper.  Yes, we are camping again, and hopefully it won’t be a sweaty, buggy event like last time!  But I digress.  I did indeed pack this week full of ALL THE THINGS because our kids will be moving out of the house in a week and I am savoring every opportunity to enjoy our time together.  Who cares about sleeping or downtime?!  It’s barely needed.    Training for the Garmin half and Columbus full are well underway and I ran 38 miles this week and also biked 44 miles.  Here’s what happened this week….

Sun – We drove to Columbus and moved some items into our son’s new apartment.  You know that joke where “if you don’t communicate and make a list you’ll end up with 3 toasters and nothing else?”  As we packed up the car Zach stopped me and told me to leave the toaster at the house because each of his roommates was bringing one.  LOL!  His new place is smaller than I expected, so I hope they will be organized and keep it tidy. A mom can dream, right?

Mon – 8 miles with 5 miles of intervals (4 mins on/1 min off).  Despite the temps and humidity, this run turned out well – but it was a hard workout.  The average pace of my intervals was 8:34, go me!  I noticed Venus and Jupiter bright in the sky when I started this run.  How cool!  Speaking of cool, the dip in my pool was heavenly after this run.

After I dried off there was a Starbucks stop and I went to the gym and lifted a little heavier than usual. 

After lunch I was feeling quite woozy.  Was I dehydrated?  Tired?  Over-caffeinated?  Probably a bit of everything!  Thankfully that all wore off after a good lunch and some lounging in the pool.

The day ended just perfect – a ride in the Mustang for ice cream and playing cards with the kids.  

Tues – 5 easy miles.  I was hoping to see the Perseid meteor shower this morning, but nothing interesting was happening in the sky.  Nothing but humidity happening on this run!! And as the day progresses, hello, DOMS.  That extra weight on the Smith machine is catching up with me YIKES.

Weds – Rest day (just a morning walk today).  We had a cookout and played cornhole.  

Thurs – 16 miles long run.  I moved my long run up since we had other plans on Saturday morning.  I also thought the weather would be better.  I had grand plans of getting up about an hour earlier this morning, but it didn’t happen. Still, I did avoid the heat mostly and this run felt much better than last week when I had to rest in the shade along the way!  Our river is low right now… can you see the person walking across on the rocks in this picture??

28 miles, biking – We joined the group ride and the weather was wonderful.  You could feel that the air is starting to waver between summer and fall.  Great ride!   Strava gave me 13 PR’s on segments of this route, which is impressive because we have rode this route several times now.  

Fri – 3 miles running.  I usually like to take a rest day after my long run, but the schedule didn’t work out.  No worries, this was an easy run with my daughter which may have included several walk breaks 🙂 

My son finished up his summer internship today and they had an open house at the company.  Believe it or not, but this company cuts metal into circles and rectangles.  Yep, that’s all they do!  But they did have some interesting customers, like Space X.  It was a good learning experience for him using the software to submit the jobs to the shop for cutting.  

Climbing!  I have to give kudos to Alan for agreeing to join us at the gym and climb with us.  Climbing is “not his favorite” (and also described as “terrifying” at times).  He made it to the top of a wall and also bouldered (smaller walls, no ropes).  Go Alan!  

Sat – 16 miles biking.  We had one more breakfast ride while the kids are still home.  I had delicious french toast.  So good!

6 miles running – a treadmill run!!!  I haven’t been on my treadmill in ages. There was no way in hell that I was going to run at 1pm in 89 degree temps outside, so treadmill it was.  I enjoyed it!

Tonight’s fun activity was a concert.  We went to see a local band, Oliver Hazard.  They close down the street for this event which has 4 bands playing and starts at 6pm.  We saw 3 of them (once again, the hot temps today!!).  I’ve never really listened to any of these bands other than the Spotify play list two days before the show, but I really liked it.  It was a good night. Note in the picture – my kids convinced me that our Blundstone boots would be the perfect accessory since these bands play folk music. Well, guess how hot those things feel when it’s 85 degrees out??? Fashion fail for me in terms of comfort, but I hope they did make me fit in. 😉

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!

Final thoughts of the weekly recap… My daughter is quite the thrifter.  I love trying on the stuff she finds at the thrift store.  This week’s haul was a Banana Republic dress and a fancy jumper.  So glamorous!  She resells a lot of the stuff, but the items she keeps I get to enjoy too because we wear the same size 🙂 Her most recent great find was a pair of kitten heels – she paid $8 for them and sold them for $70. The buyer even paid $60 to have them shipped overnight! wow

Q: Did anyone go see a concert this week?

There were a lot in our area!