We are packing up and heading back to Pennsylvania today. I am not happy to be leaving our family, but I am looking forward to seeing our fur children. We miss them a lot when we are gone!
It was such a great Christmas but it went by too quickly. Right now we have no other planned trips home until we see our family in June for Wes’ medical school graduation. That makes me sad, but I have learned you never know what will happen!
We are at Sunday so it is time to recap my training this week. I am pretty happy with how my training went for being home for vacation. I could have done a lot better with my eating, but I let myself slide some during the holidays. I look forward to getting back on a more normal and healthy eating schedule, and my stomach does too!
Here is my training for the past week:
Monday – Walking and Running
AM: 90 minutes running and walking.
Tuesday – Running and Weights
AM: 3.5 miles easy running and walking. I ended my workout with some all over body weights.
Wednesday – Rest Day
Thursday – Running and Walking
AM: 90 minutes running and walking. I followed the same workout from Monday.
Friday – Walking
AM: 70 minutes walking outside around a local park.
Saturday – Running and Walking
AM: 1 1/2 hours of running and walking.
This was going to be one of my final “tests” to see how my leg was doing.
I started the workout with 3 intervals: 10 minutes, 12 minutes, and 14 minutes. In between each of the intervals I would walk for 5 minutes and then ended the last few minutes in the hour with walking.
I had to help my husband with his treadmill so I stopped the workout and stretched before finishing up the last part.
We decided that if my leg could handle 2 more miles after the 36 minutes I had already run then I was definitely starting to get where I need to be.
I ran 2 miles at a 10 minute pace and then finished it off with 25 minutes of slow walking.
Total mileage for the run/walk was 8.47 miles. This was my longest to date.
I finished my workout out with a lot of stretching while I waited for Wes to finish his run. My legs and calves were very tight so I knew I needed a good foam rolling session before calling it a day.
I have worn my Mizuno Wave Rider 17 shoes on every run this week. I still think they are awesome.
Sunday – Rest Day
Weekly Recap Summary:
Running Days – 4
Cross Training Days – 1
Rest Days – 2
I didn’t get in quite as much cross training this week due to the lack of options. The gyms that I went to didn’t allow non-class spinning and neither had pools. I did the best I could with weights, but I ended up doing a bit more running than originally planned.
The good news is that my leg feels great. We did a bit more of a test on it Saturday and there was no pain or irritation. This is extremely good news and is a great sign for the beginning of a slow increase back into running.
Monday we will reevaluate where I am in terms of running and change up my training for the week. I look forward to starting this next phase!
How did your training go for the week?
Do you enjoy interval workouts?
That is awesome that you were able to run so much yesterday! I’m glad that your leg is feeling better! I’ve been missing my fur babies this vacation too – I keep calling my parents’ dog Gracie, Laci like my dog. oops! Can’t wait to get home to them!
Thank you Lauren! I know it is so sad when you are away from your fur children 🙂 It is so much fun to come back and get all the love from them!
I have such a love/hate relationship with sprint intervals. They work so well at making me faster so I feel so accomplished when I’m done and I look forward to them when my legs are feeling a bit stale but I’m far more of a distance gal than a speed gal so every interval feels like actual torture while I’m running it haha.
Yes I know how that goes! Any speed work is a love/hate relationship. They help but they are really hard to do! I feel you on the distance thing – I prefer a slow long run any day!
Hi! I am a little new to your blog… what is going on with your leg that you are recovering from?
Megan – I had a femoral stress fracture and am on week 15 of my recovery. Slowly getting back into running! Thanks for reading 🙂
@Megan – she has written about her Femoral Stress Fracture here (http://www.lovingontherun.com/femoral-stress-fracture/)
I took it pretty easy as I knew I would – two days off, plus an easy 3 mile run (with a few walk stops) with my brother the day after Christmas. Been back at my usual fun the last couple of days though! 🙂
Always enjoy seeing you making progress – hope you know we are rooting for you all the way! 🙂
Thank you Mike! 🙂
Glad you had a relaxing and fun vacation! Things are slowly starting to get back to normal here.
Sounds like you got in a pretty decent week of workouts given that you were out of town and on vacation! I also struggled to get in good workouts while visiting in NY but I made it work with snowboarding and snowy hikes!
http://www.sneakersandspatulas.com/2013/12/29/fun-in-the-snow/
Great job with your workouts Lauren! Glad you were able to get them in! Snowy hikes are the best 🙂