Sunday, April 28th
After two days off--one for moving my brother’s fridge, the other for hanging out in summer-like weather with the fam--I really needed to get in at least a little exercise in order to set up the week properly. I had a lot of yard work to do, so I knocked off work around 2pm and started with a quick bench press, to make up for Friday’s missed st workout. I did sub-max, but still felt an immediate pump, a sign that I had gotten good benefit from last week’s top st workout, when I was able to push things a bit. A return to BW maxes can’t be too far away now.
Then I ran down to the local junior high school track. I needed to run at least three miles or so to make sure I didn’t lose all conditioning. It’s been two weeks without a decent long run. Now that the weather’s decent, I think I’ll have to start doing my weekend long run early in the morning before everyone wakes up. It’s just too easy to get pulled into the vortex of warm weather afternoon activity outside. Hard to justify going out for a run alone when the kids are playing.
The track was dry but bumpy from footprints left in the mud earlier in the week. I ran six 440 laps at an easy aerobic pace. The goal was just to condition my feet a bit on the track’s sandy gravel/gravelly sand in order to prep them for faster paced intervals later in the week. Then going home I ran up the flight of stairs nearby that leads up to the Lutheran Seminary. I want to work these stairs into my hills workout. I just did one flight because the next day, today, is my big legs st day. Then I headed home through my neighborhood’s little village-like shopping district.
My legs were just starting to loosen up and I felt like running a lot more, but I settled for 3.16 miles. It was 78 F out--hard to believe it was snowing less than a week prior. It seems this year we’re skipping spring altogether and cutting straight to summer. It felt great to run in my shorts and break a sweat. A nice Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA greeted me when I got home, and then I set to doing lackadaisical yard chores with my wife and kids. Only got done about half of what I wanted to get done, but at least I managed to get the x-mas tree lights down from the crab apple tree before giving in completely to playing with the kids and their friends.
Edit: I read through the last page of comments from last week. Some folks would like to end the mileage reporting week on a Sunday. Nick has already suggested this. My exercise week begins on Monday, with Sunday penciled in as a rest day, so that would be fine with me. I only begin new threads on Sunday because that's the way most calendars are organized.
Any thoughts? We could take a simple vote and go with the majority.
After two days off--one for moving my brother’s fridge, the other for hanging out in summer-like weather with the fam--I really needed to get in at least a little exercise in order to set up the week properly. I had a lot of yard work to do, so I knocked off work around 2pm and started with a quick bench press, to make up for Friday’s missed st workout. I did sub-max, but still felt an immediate pump, a sign that I had gotten good benefit from last week’s top st workout, when I was able to push things a bit. A return to BW maxes can’t be too far away now.
Then I ran down to the local junior high school track. I needed to run at least three miles or so to make sure I didn’t lose all conditioning. It’s been two weeks without a decent long run. Now that the weather’s decent, I think I’ll have to start doing my weekend long run early in the morning before everyone wakes up. It’s just too easy to get pulled into the vortex of warm weather afternoon activity outside. Hard to justify going out for a run alone when the kids are playing.
The track was dry but bumpy from footprints left in the mud earlier in the week. I ran six 440 laps at an easy aerobic pace. The goal was just to condition my feet a bit on the track’s sandy gravel/gravelly sand in order to prep them for faster paced intervals later in the week. Then going home I ran up the flight of stairs nearby that leads up to the Lutheran Seminary. I want to work these stairs into my hills workout. I just did one flight because the next day, today, is my big legs st day. Then I headed home through my neighborhood’s little village-like shopping district.
My legs were just starting to loosen up and I felt like running a lot more, but I settled for 3.16 miles. It was 78 F out--hard to believe it was snowing less than a week prior. It seems this year we’re skipping spring altogether and cutting straight to summer. It felt great to run in my shorts and break a sweat. A nice Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA greeted me when I got home, and then I set to doing lackadaisical yard chores with my wife and kids. Only got done about half of what I wanted to get done, but at least I managed to get the x-mas tree lights down from the crab apple tree before giving in completely to playing with the kids and their friends.
Edit: I read through the last page of comments from last week. Some folks would like to end the mileage reporting week on a Sunday. Nick has already suggested this. My exercise week begins on Monday, with Sunday penciled in as a rest day, so that would be fine with me. I only begin new threads on Sunday because that's the way most calendars are organized.
Any thoughts? We could take a simple vote and go with the majority.