Tuesday Blues-day

I skipped Pilates cuz I was tired, and said "hey, I'm running tonight anyway!" Then lab reared her ugly head and prevented me from running. Half of me was angry about my data (which continue to suck) and half of me was JUST SO FRUSTRATED to miss a workout.

So on to Wednesday:

5 miles this morning - it's a beautiful morning!

Tonight - going to Kickboxing in Queens. My first real, hitting-things kickboxing class! I asked my "cardio kickboxing" teacher for tips. He said "don't bend your wrist", which I actually already knew from Tae Kwon Do when I was 7. I'm excited to beat things up!!!

Monday Funday!

Lifted this morning. Really wasn't into it - tired, feeling less-than-strong. But then I ran into the judge of the Sinai weightlifting contest, who complimented my lifts, and I felt better.

Tonight: cardio kickboxing. We'll call it my warmup for Wednesday night's REAL kickboxing!

10.5 idyllic miles

Followed by shopping, museum-ing, shopping, drinking, resting, and more drinking. Holy fuck today is tiring.

In which Hannah continues racking up the points...

AM: Run 4 miles. FUCKING humid.

Lifting....

at 3:30 in the afternoon? So it would seem.

NRLW 5B2. Got my intervals up to 8.4mph (7:09 min/mile).

Tuesday Fun Run!

5 miles in the park with the girls. An idyllic day for running!!!

Sunday

Saturday diving turns out to have been canceled for the summer, and no one told me. Sad.

Sunday I did NRLW 5A2 in the AM and went to yoga for the first time in months in the evening.

Today I rested, and all was well!

Saturday

Ran 6 miles with the newer running group, and then 2.3 to get home on my own. A lovely time was had by all.

Tonight: Diving practice!!!

Thursday and Friday

Thursday: AM run, truncated to 3 miles due to my buddies not being willing to go early enough. But I put my foot down, and now they'll go when I want!!

Friday: Bootcamp. Did something naughty to my hip flexors, so I'll be living on a foam roller tonight.

Also bought a groupon for Kickboxing classes. Sure, it's in Queens, but it comes with free gloves! Which I can take to the OTHER kickboxing groupon I bought!

Wednesday

Where is everyone?

AM: NRLW 5B1. Woohoo intervals!!!!

PM: Eat Haitian food. If you break a sweat during a meal, that counts as a workout, right?

Tuesday

AM: Pilates. My instructor and I talked lifting. We are both aghast at the number of women who think lifting heavy weights will make them bulky. Sorry - unless you have some testicles you're not telling us about, or are injecting something, you are not going to get bulky.

PM: Speedwork. Played "catch up" for 1.7 miles, with 1.7 warmup and 2.5 to get to the meetup point. I'd fully intended to take the bus down, but wouldn't ya know it, the Museum Mile party had 5th ave closed. So run down it was!

NRLW 5A1

Ugh, I've seriously lost strength in the last several weeks of not lifting heavy. Last time I lifted, I could do 6 reps of incline DB benchpress at 30#. Today, couldn't do 1. But this is why we're back at it! On the plus side, my bodyweight matrix hasn't slowed down at all!

Rebel Race

Friday: ran 5 miles.

Saturday: Ran the "15k" Rebel Race in Modena, NY. Worst. Organization. Ever. The course was not marked, and there was no one to direct us, so most of my wave got lost, and in no way ran 15k. Some say it was longer, I think it was shorter... Obstacles were OK, but nothing to write home about. Overall experience: C-

Climbing Training 101

I do this close to every day at work so I didn't want to fill the page with redundancy.

20-30 minutes of climbing training at lunch break.

Do you know those ring things in the olympics for gymnastics? Now picture a lot of those just lined up. Now imagine just swining back and forth from them multiple times. Fin~

Nose, meet grindstone...

Grindstone, nose. I've registered for the Spartan Beast at Killington on August 6. Unsure how it will compare to the Tough Mudder, except that it's on a taller mountain... And for any obstacle you miss/fail, you have to do 30 burpees at the end. Fortunately for me, I can do 30 burpees in 1 minute at bootcamp, but after 4 hours up and down a mountain, that might not be so realistic. So training motivation is back!

Today -
AM: Pilates.

PM: My friend from high school has started an unofficial running club. Saturdays they do group long runs, and Tuesday nights are speed workouts. I'll be going tonight, and hoping not to die between the heat and the "oh, I don't really know how to run fast..." If anyone would care to join, I can get you more details. It's free and starts at 7:30 at CP South and 6th Ave.

ETA: Oh holy hell. We ran repeats of Cat Hill. 7:30 pace up, jog down. I did 4, and then had to go, they did 6. I totally could have survived 2 more, but being as I STILL have to go back to lab, I'm ok with the sacrifice. Of course, with the warmup, cooldown, and the fact that I ran 2.5 miles TO the warmup... I ran 8 miles today. ON A WEEKDAY!? Egads!

Saturday

Woke up to my running buddy texting me to ask where I was. Oops!! Still managed to get out and do 4.5 miles with her, but as I'd planned to do 6, and she had to go do Things, I did another 2.5 myself! Who knew the loop from 102 to south of the reservoir was 2.5 miles!? Not I. But it was lovely.

Wrapping up the week

Sunday! RESULTS Monthly Challenge: Came in 2nd place behind Hannah. Hannah, your run was awesome. As far as personal benchmarks go, this was close to my 2009 Brooklyn Half-Marathon which was my strongest running year to date. However, I was in mid-season mode while this year I'm still in rehab mode. I'm super excited about what that means. Hopefully I can drop 5-10 more lbs. in time for the Queens Half-Marathon as well as log in some half-marathon or longer runs. Sub 2-hours is so close!

Tuesday: Yoga in the morning to start the day.
Wednesday: Swimming in the morning.
Today: 5 mile run. Awful. Mentally drained. Almost a 12 minute pace. But at least it's conditioning the body.

National Running day...

And I have a chest cold. No workout for me. Not sure why the rule of thumb is "work out if you're sick above the neck, rest if you're sick below" but that's what everyone says, and I really need to be well SOON so I can get back to kicking my own ass.

Sigh.