Today is the VERY LAST day to end my Bob’s Red Mill giveaway! I will select the winner in Monday’s post!
Here are the three recipes I made this week from the 3 products I received:
Chocolate Strawberry Banana Spinach Smoothie
White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
This has been quite a week, but i’d say it has really made me refocus on myself and my health and that is never a bad thing.
Here is a quick run down of my training this week:
Monday (1/6)
3.15 mile run. Slow and easy.
70 minutes spinning.
Tuesday (1/7)
5.35 miles walk/run intervals.
50 minutes easy spinning.
Wednesday (1/8)
4.14 mile run.
60 minutes spinning.
Thursday (1/9)
3.14 mile run.
50 minutes spinning.
Friday (1/10)
Rest Day
Saturday (1/11)
I knew I needed to switch things up.
I started with my “long run” for the week which was 6 miles. It was tough.
I felt good, but I can tell I have some work to do to get my cardio back up to where it used to be. That’s okay – I was prepared for that in a lot of ways.
I ran the first 6 miles at a 9:50 pace. I felt good and accomplished once it was over.
I decided that my legs needed a good recovery so I ended up walking one extra mile very slow.
After I had finished my run I decided it was time to get some weights in. I visited my old stomping ground the free weight section and then focused on core work.
I ended up completely 3 x 1 minute planks. I haven’t done planks in a long time, I forgot how awesome they were!
I did attempt to spin a little to cool down but only made it less than 10 minutes and decided to call it a day. It was a great decision.
Sunday (1/12)
Rest Day
Overall I am pretty happy with this week, but there some changes obviously that need to be made.
Changes going into a new week:
1. Create a Workout Schedule – This will help me stay on track, not add miscellaneous extra workouts in that I don’t need to do, and also stay organized.
2. Two to Three Days Spinning MAX – There will be no more than 2-3 days of spinning this week. Since I burn out on it this past week, it is time to take a step back.
3. Strength Training – This HAS to become a bigger focus. I will be replacing some of my spinning workouts with a more focused strength plan.
4. Focus on What’s Important – Focus on the things that mean the most right now. Aside from the workouts we have a few pretty challenging things going in right now, and I really want my focus to be on my husband as we go through these times together.
What are your goals for the week?
I just started to incorporate weight training into my routine yesterday, thanks to both you and my husband! He helped me out and I forgot how resourceful he was about this (he was the one running and lifting weights when we first got married…now the roles have changed!). I didn’t do a lot but I’m pretty sore today! So my goal this week is to try to incorporate even more weight training into my schedule.
Glad you are starting to do it! It’s amazing how sore just a little bit of weights will do when you haven’t done it in a while! Good luck this week keep me posted on how it goes!
Way to go on the 6 miles! And yes for hitting the weight room – need to renew my focus there as well. Still thinking about you guys as it seems like you’re still going through challenging times! <3
Thank you Megan! We are doing good – just got a lot of stressful things going on all at once! Thanks for your concern! Yes the weight room is going to be a much bigger focus for me this week as well.
Good job on 6 miles – make sure to focus on safe progress … I feel that in the blogging community there is such a focus on always moving upwards and forwards that there is too much pressure put on that rather than safe, sensible workouts.
Still concerned about you doing TWO lower body workouts per day. That is NOT taking it slow or easy. I think the idea of mixing it up is good, but I think it crossed over into the danger zone when you started ramping running and kept spinning. I hope that when you design your workouts you actually separate body zones … because your body (this should be obvious to you by now) seriously needs rest days. And doing spinning rather than running, or lower body weight workouts … is NOT rest.
Sorry to be a nag 🙁
Thanks Michael!
Yes this week I need to switch up what I am doing and how I am doing it. That will mean dividing up, cutting back, and doing things I have never done before. My body needs it. I have to adapt my workouts almost weekly because eventually my running will change again and I will increase it some. I need to remember that instead of just trying to do the same thing every week.
I am a new reader, and I was kind of wondering the same thing: if you run, then why spin, too? I see running and spinning as equal cardio/leg workouts so (to me) doing both in a day seems like a lot. But, I truly understand everyone has what works for them. It’s great news about a 6 mile run. YAY!
Hey Susan! Welcome 🙂
The running/spinning combo started when I was just getting back into running and doing very little running. I would add easy spinning in to get a little extra cardio – it just kind of stuck…I’m not sure why it kept going the way it did. Definitely going to be revamping my workouts this week! 🙂
Excited to watch you progress on your journey! I am not a hard core runner. I try to run 4 days/week, and have two recover days (easy swim + weights) and one total rest day. I don’t really have any goals other than stay injury free and have fun. I am always in awe of all you awesome runners who can run SO fast and go SO far 🙂 I am not sure if I could do that, but is sure is great to live vicariously through all of you. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend!
Thank you Susan! 🙂 You can do anything you want to do – that sounded cliche I am sure but I have learned over time that the only thing that holds us back is ourselves! You would be surprised what you can do! 🙂 Hope you had a great weekend!
I have a lot of similar goals as you do right now. I def need to plan my workouts or I’m doing ALL leg workouts and no abs, arms, or anything else. I also need to do more strength training and not just running. Good luck with your goals this week!
I feel like we are one on the same! I am the way I work all legs and no arms or vise versa – I am not so good at having things planned out and making sure I hit everything!
Hope your goals go well this week!