August in Review

Total Miles:   140.7 miles up from 112 miles last month. 58.7 miles last August.

Total Time:  24:45:18 up from 20:09:56. Average pace dropped from 10:49 to 10:34 even with more miles. Whoop!

Total Runs: 24 runs, an average of 5.86 miles/run.

Highest weekly mileage: 

8/14/2017 – 8/20/2017:	39.1 mi	6:51:01	10:32 / mi

Favorite run: 8 miles with 5x1000 m repeats at the track with Toni.

Most hardcore run: 14 mile long run in all the humidity after it had disappeared for a few weeks. Barf.

Favorite Race: The only race I did was the 605 Series 8 mile, which was part of our 11 mile long run with tempo miles. It wasn't a race-race, but it felt good to have a hard effort workout!

Bike Miles: 0 miles.

Favorite Jam: During the 14 mile death march long run, I was wishing I had brought my headphones to zone out during the last few hard miles, so I pretended I was listening to N Sync's Bye Bye Bye. So I suppose that.

July in Review + Goals

Total Miles:   112 miles up from 52.6  miles last month. 100.6 miles last July.

Total Time:  20:09:56 up from 9:11:57 last month. Uff da!

Total Runs: 21 for an average of 5.33 miles a run.

Highest weekly mileage: 7/17-7/23 33 miles 5:53:23

Favorite run: Toni and my first long run of this training cycle. I was nervous about a double digit long run after taking a bit of a break from long runs after the Brookings half. It flew by.

Most hardcore run: 8 miles with tempo and uphill portions in all the humidity. barf.

Favorite Race: Lennox Firecracker 5k

Bike Miles: 0. Oops.

Favorite Jam: I went to the AAR concert so the only time I've listened to music has been a playlist of all their music.

July Goals

This month I have two goals I'm going to try to work on:

• Daily meditation: I've totally fallen off of my meditation practice and I desperately want to get it back.--Womp womp. I'm going to re-attempt this goal for August!
• Water: I've been drinking so much coffee and enjoying all the beers on beautiful summer nights, and I have not been drinking nearly enough water. I re-downloaded an app to help me stay accountable. Fingers crossed!--SUCCESS! Operation: Drink all the Water is going well! 

Twin Cities 10 Mile Training Week 1

Week of July 10-16

Monday Planned: General Aerobic + Speed 6 miles 8x100 strides
Monday Actual: 6 miles with 8x100 strides.
When my alarm went off in the morning, I silenced it, rolling back over to sleep. I hoped that I wouldn't regret this decision after work. Luckily for me, we had the heat after work, but the humidity had dropped significantly. It was 84 degrees with only 50% humidity, so it felt amazing out. We had a snafu at work that caused me to stay later, so I started running at 6:15pm, so I was STARVING throughout the run and thought I was going to die during the final mile and a half. Uff. Mental note: time to start stashing snacks at work for pre-run fuel again. 6 miles done!

Tuesday Planned: General Aerobic 5 miles 
Tuesday Actual: 3 miles.

I met up with Sarah for our group run from Revolution. We got in 3 miles followed by 30 minutes of yoga. I had planned to go out for two more after but didn't. Oops. The humidity was just shy of 100%, so despite it being at a nice easy comfortable pace, we kept describing the humidity as "gaspy."

Wednesday Planned: General Aerobic 3 miles
Wednesday Actual: 3 miles.

I got in my 3 miles with Bob during the group run at 605. It was so incredibly hot and humid.

Thursday Planned: LT 7 miles, 2x12 min with 4 min jogs in between 
Thursday Actual: LT 7 miles.
My BRF is back! And it's our one year friendivarsary! We met up for our first workout of the training cycle. We ran a mile to meet up, then another warm up mile together, followed by our LT miles, a cool down mile together and a solo cool down mile by ourselves. The LT miles were HARD. It was so humid out. But it felt pretty badass going on with the rest of my workday after accomplishing a challenging run! And BRF miles are always great. 

Friday Planned: Sanford POWER
Friday Actual: Rest. As I was logging my miles in my training log, I realized that I hadn't taken a rest day since a week ago Wednesday. Uff. I knew if I did POWER I'd need to do a couple of miles shake out so I could do my long run Saturday, and I knew I couldn't move my long run, so I skipped POWER, and slept in instead.

Saturday Planned: Endurance 10 miles
Saturday Actual: 10 miles!
The real feel temp for Saturday was projected at 103 degrees, so I was up at 5:30am to get ready for our long run. We got started at 6:40am and it was so incredibly humid. I was sweaty just getting my stuff gathered before we took off! My first mile was really heavy tired legs, but then things shook out and before we knew it we were at the 5 mile turn around! Mile 6 was rough, but after we got water refills at mile 7 I felt like a whole new woman, and we were able to pick up the pace the last few miles without picking up the effort level.

We managed to run a slightly faster pace this week than last week, running 2 miles further, in much hotter and humid conditions. WIN!

Sunday Planned: Rest
Sunday Actual: I had two miles remaining for the week, so I opted to do a super easy shake out run before it heated up too much. I kept it super easy.

Total Mileage Planned: 31 miles

Total Mileage Actual:  31 miles. This is one of the highest mileage weeks I've had in forever! I went back through my log and I hit 31 miles and 36 miles during my training cycle for Brookings, so I think this training cycle is off to a good start!