Woohoo! This week was our now-annual trip to Tampa for FMEA (Florida Music Educator’s Association, otherwise known as All-State.) My daughter was playing in the band, my husband attended professional development seminars, and my son and I were along for the ride. Workouts continued to be minimal- I’ll get back on track next week. Thanks as always to Kim and Deborah for hosting the Weekly Rundown- let’s get into it!
Sunday
Since my strength training was sketchy last week, I vowed to do SOMETHING on this day, and I did- my hip stability exercises. Better than nothing!
Monday
4 mile run to start the day. It was the last day of winter break, so I got to run in the daylight once again, woohoo!
Tuesday
UGH. School started again, which meant getting up at 5:30. That was painful. I did an upper body workout and the Caroline Girvan deadbugs.
Wednesday
12 mile long run! I ran partially on the road and partially on trails. Good run!
It was cold though- in the 40s when I started, which accounts for the odd attire. I wore a hat and gloves, and long sleeve zippered sweatshirt. I eventually unzipped but kept the hat on for most of the time.
In the afternoon, we left for Tampa! Glad I got that run in before sitting in the car for four hours.
Thursday
No workouts! This was a super busy day, and- it’s a long story, which I went into in my last post, which was a whine-fest- but I had to drive my daughter to and from her rehearsals (in other years it was a short walk from our hotel.) I did do a lot of walking, so it was a good day.
Friday
Again, it was an early day and I had to drive my daughter to her rehearsal. Since the Riverwalk was not a great option for running, I took it to the hotel gym.
The treadmills were a little too smart for me, and I didn’t have time to figure out how to set them the way I wanted, so I just went by time. I did ten minutes of walking, 3 mph at a 12% incline, and then ran for 30 minutes at a 1% incline. Done!
Saturday
The past two years, there was an FMEA 3K race, but they didn’t have it this year (not sure why.) I decided to run my own 3K on the treadmill!
I figured out how to program it for a 6K workout. I warmed up for 2K, ran a 3K “race” and then cooled down for the final kilometer. The only thing is, after all these years I still can’t convert kilometers to miles, so I didn’t know how to set my pace. I did run the 3K at a “hard for me” pace, and increased it a bit at the end for a final kick. I thought I would get my stats from my Garmin, but failed to realize I needed to calibrate it for treadmill running. Technology fail! Or, me fail. If I had had more time I could have figured everything out… I did have a good workout though, and finished with a little core work.
My daughter’s concert was at night, and then we drove home. Oof- very late night.
Sunday
Back to reality-sigh. Some sort of strength work must happen today!
How was your week?
Do you keep up your workout schedule while on vacation?
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Yay for a good running week! With the added bonus of a “running with a hat, gloves, and long sleeves” session.
Back when I was still running and working for the international company, I remember trying to talk about running to my coworkers and then being thrown when I would say strange things like “I ran 4 miles” and they would say, “how far is that?”. My answer was of course based on standard race distances, “well it’s more than 5k but less than 8k”. And then when we went to the Dominican Republic last year and the treadmills were metric, I couldn’t figure out how to translate 3MPH from the 30/12/3 workout to KPH. Logically I knew that it should be a bit less than 5 KPH, but whatever speed around that that I tried, it felt a little off.
Sounds like a very busy week for you! What a shame the riverwalk wasn’t fit for a run–it looks like it would be a pretty place to get it done! It’s been a while since I’ve been to Tampa–the last time was with my oldest son to pick up my youngest from the airport. We went early of course to go to the Cigar City brewery, lol.
Your trail run looks like it was beautiful!
I am terrible at the k to m conversion, too. I can convert the distance but not the pacing. It’s a bridge too far even for this math major. I am glad you got some good workouts in! It depends on where we vacation but I often take time off from working out and try to be active in other ways. I loathe the treadmill so so so so so much so can’t bring myself to run on it!
My week was pretty good but boy did it feel long to work for 5 days for the first time in several weeks. Paul was thrilled to be back in school though and his behavior was back to normal so that was good. Winter break is just too long for us in our cold climate.