Happy Sunday! 🙂
My week is all thrown off because my hours have been all over the place, but I can’t wait until 4:00 pm today when I get to relax and spend the rest of the evening with the hubs.
Friday and Saturday were pretty uneventful around here. Friday I ended up having off so I went to town on cleaning my house. It had gotten out of control, and even though there is still some work to be done I am excited to have a bulk of it finished.
We hung out, watched movies, and Wes showed me who really is #1 in his life.
This cat loves Wes and isn’t such a fan of me. I don’t know what I ever did to him, but that’s OK!
I went to bed early Friday to wake up and babysit Saturday.
After I got done we headed out to dinner. Our one dinner a week out is the highlight of my week. This week we kept it simple and just went to the mall food court. Nothing fancy but it was perfect.
The fact that the dinner ended with frozen yogurt made it EVEN better!
After Friday’s post I got a couple of questions about budgeting for food. I will try and work on a post for you all on how we do it. I want to start out though by being honest and saying money is EXTREMELY tight right now. Sometimes I have to buy the cheapest things I can find to make sure we get by.
We know it won’t be like this forever which makes it much easier to get through the tough days. Anyways, be on the lookout for that post in the coming weeks. I’ll be as honest as I can be!
Getting right two it, much like a couple weeks ago I am going to title this week pool running week.
Monday (2/17)
Pool Running: 2 hours
Tuesday (2/18)
Pool Running: 60 minutes
Biking (Spinning): 50 minutes
Wednesday (2/19)
Pool Running: 90 minutes
Thursday (2/20)
Pool Running: 1 hour 50 minutes
Friday (2/21)
Pool Running: 2 hours
Saturday (2/22)
Rest Day
Sunday (2/23)
Still figuring this out with my work schedule, but most likely a rest day.
There you have it. Lots and lots of pool running this week. Aside from Wednesday most of it was done with Wes. As I mentioned Friday, sometimes the most time we have together is at the gym so this allows us to chat and spend some time together before I head off to work.
The good news: we are probably about 10 days out from Wes running again. Or at least beginning to run again. He really is feeling well and I think his body is responding like it should be to recovery. He is antsy to run again but taking it slow to avoid re-injuring his sacrum.
I have some great things coming for you all this week! I’m really excited. Now I just need to find the time to sit down and get it all put together 🙂 Have a great Sunday!
How did your workouts go this week?
Anyone race? Do a long run? Or just relax this weekend?
I am jealous, I wish I could pool run! With my foot injury, I tried it out hoping it would become something I liked but it was a big failure so I resorted to laps. Do you have any advice for pool running?
Did it not work because it hurt your foot or because you just couldn’t get into it?
Pool running can be mentally VERY hard. I learned this when I was injured that’s why I try to help my husband out when I can and join him. If you have someone to talk to it makes it SO much easier!
I enjoy pool running now because I’ve done it more – but if you incorporate some high intensity in there like 2 minutes on/2 minutes off it makes it go quicker or find a pool you can run laps basically in it. That makes it easier for me instead of running in place. If it is hurting your foot I would suggest trying to find a weight belt and going in a deep area this way you aren’t actually placing your foot on the bottom of the pool.
Do you have any pool running workouts? Or do you kind of just go?
Depends. This week I’ve just been going and seeing how I feel but I have thrown in some workouts here and there!
The weathers been great this weekend, so I’ve gotten a chance to cycle outside. Between Sat and Sun, I got 65 miles in, so I’m really happy!
Also did a 5 mi tempo run on Thursday which felt like a fail. Still having issues with my left ankle and knee. So frustrating.
I am jealous of your nice weather! it was pretty nice hear today but with work I opted for a rest day.
Great workouts!
I wish that I had access to an indoor pool so I could include swimming and pool running into my training, but my gym just has an outdoor pool so it doesn’t open until May. But every year I say I will swim in the summer and then I rarely do! Maybe this summer I will try pool running..I’ve never done it and am a little nervous to try it because I don’t know if I will do it right.
This week my long run was 16 miles and it was finally a little bit warmer outside!
Great job on your long run!
We are very fortunate to have the indoor pool. Once we move we won’t have access to that anymore. Trying to get in all we can 🙂
Good news on Wes getting close to running again! Good luck to both of you starting to ramp up again soon!
We had such great weather I had to get a long run – I did about 20.5 on Saturday that was just great. Today we had a family day and loads of things to do so sadly didn’t get in another run before the cold returns …
I’d say if you are going to be missing a run – family day is the best way to do it 🙂 I took a rest day yesterday as well due to work and catching up on some sleep. It was needed!
Keeping my fingers crossed – he will start back next Monday. One more week – we are both looking forward to it and hoping for the best.
Just curious, what marathon training program are you following that has you doing 90-120 minutes of cardio virtually every day? I know of no legit training program with that much volume, and I’m a former collegiate runner and have run Boston and three other sub-3:25 marathons. Doing that much cardio increases your risk of burnout, adrenal fatigue and overuse injuries (yes, this can happen even with non-impact activities like spinning and pool running) and seems counterproductive to your stated goal of qualifying for Boston. I’m NOT trying to be mean, I’m just sincerely confused, since from a reader’s perspective, it appears you’re just doing a bunch of junk cardio to burn calories and/or manage anxiety.
I am not following a marathon training plan right now. I will finish out this week cross training and hope to be starting and easing back into running next week. I will be gradually and very slowly adding my miles back in and then once I Feel my body is completely ready I will be starting a training plan. That is a ways off right now.
I typically will work out on average 90 minutes 5 days a week. I have been averaging usually 2 rest days (complete rest) a week usually on the weekends but depends on my work schedule as to what I fit in. The pool running I do is not hard just steady slow pool running. It is easier that way right now because my husband and I do it together while he is coming back from injury and we talk the entire time if that gives you an idea of how easy.
I will put a post up Wednesday explaining these past couple weeks since people seem to be confused. I by no means will be doing this much running when I am up in training. My mileage is getting cut back from what I used to do. Once I get into actual training my workouts will change a lot.
Thanks for your concern though! Congrats on those marathon time! Thats really impressive – hope to be there one day! 🙂