Weekly Rundown- Aging Up!!!
Happy March 21st- it’s my birthday! Since my birthday doesn’t often fall on a Sunday (obviously) I’m making the most of it this year! And… I can’t wait to start competing in my brand new age group… But first, I’m linking up with Kim and Deborah for the weekly rundown. Here’s how birthday week went down! Monday: Day off. As always. Tuesday: 3 mile run followed by lower body strength- walking lunges, Runner’s Touch exercise, and single leg squats. My neck issue was acting up again and I was afraid to do anything involving a barbell, so I did what I could. Sigh! Wednesday: 5 mile trail run with my husband! He’s a teacher and was off this week for spring break. We went out to my new favorite trail in the Everglades. Followed this run with Gauntlet Plank workout. Thursday: 3 mile run and that was it! Friday: Day off of running and I decided to suck it up and do lower body strength, with weights. It’s not like I love lifting weights so much (or at all) but the one thing I’ve learned- the hard way- is taking too much time off will result in crazy, horrendous DOMS when you finally do it again. So I did squats and deadlifts, plates on the bar. My neck dealt with it okay. Saturday: 3 mile run, followed by pullups. Everything I said in the last paragraph applies to pullups as well (btw I do them banded) so that’s motivation for me to get them done. Sunday: AHHHHHH! The big birthday run! I ran from my house to the beach, which is 10 miles. When I got there I jumped in the ocean, and my husband was there to pick me up. Maybe next birthday I’ll run to the beach and back… but a ten mile run is my current limit. I actually felt amazing on this run and could have kept going, but I felt some twinges in my achilles (on the side of my plantar fasciitis) so ten miles was perfect. We’re so, so lucky to be able to run west to the Everglades and east to the ocean! And then… 55 pushups for my new age! I did “ten down” which was a set of ten, set of nine, set of eight, etc. down to one, which equals 55. My son bullied me into doing tricep pushups for the last few sets, and doing the last one super slowly, holding it for ten seconds before pushing back up. And then it was time for waffles! Lots and lots of waffles. Anyone else love birthdays? Hate birthdays? Do you like to do a special run on your birthday?