Oh, hello! Thanks for stopping by for the Weekly Rundown, hosted as always by Kim and Deborah (thanks, ladies!) Now that my long runs are over 20 miles, I only do them once every ten days, which left room in my week for some good strength workouts. And, in case you somehow forgot that we moved the clocks ahead, all my dark running photos will remind you. Let’s get into it!
Monday
This was a painful morning, but no need to belabor the point. I woke up at what FELT LIKE 4 am, and ran 4 miles.
Tuesday
I started the day with a 2 mile walk, and a Caroline Girvan abs workout.. After work, I went to the gym! I did a leg day focused on dead lifts. Photo courtesy of my daughter, who worked out with me.
Wednesday
Another dark 4 mile run! I added a little speed work into this one.
Thursday
In the morning I did the Caroline Girvan deadbug workout, and then after work it was back to the gym! This time I focused on squats (taking my chiropractor’s advice of not doing squats and deadlifts on the same day.) Also did the glute push machine, and piriformis exercises.
Friday
Another 4 mile run, and that is the moon over my right shoulder! I thought of Kim– especially because it was her birthday!
Saturday
Off! I meant to go for a walk today but… didn’t. It was a busy day of work and chauffeuring duties.
Sunday
LONG RUN! 22 miles, and I’ll make up for all the dark runs. There will be plenty of sunlight and heat for this one. The forecast is showing a high of 87 degrees. It probably goes without saying that I will be starting EARLY.
Top photo by Mike Petrucci on Unsplash
How was your week? Did you like turning the clocks ahead? (hahahahahahaha…)
Did you see the full moon?
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20 miles every 10 days sounds tough and fun! Do you listen to music or podcast?
I used to run always during dark to avoid heat and sun. Now in brasilia, I am always running when sun is out which is 6:20 or so which is much better. I especially enjoy the running vibe here in the central park, plenty of runners and running group. Once my portuguese gets better, I may join one of them.
Ugh the time change. Who liked it!! Gah. Everyone was cranky this week and the boys’ behavior wasn’t great at times but the principal reminded us in his weekly email that emotional regulation is challenging after the time change so that was a good reminder.
I went on lots of walks this week, including 2 that to me to Central Park! On Wednesday we got some bizarre questions/requests so on teams l said to my coworker, is it a full moon? Then sure enough when I got home late from NYC that night I saw it was indeed a full moon.
I hope your long run is going well! It would be a cold one here. We went from 70 degrees on Friday to a feels like temp of 9 on Saturday afternoon. Ugggggghhhh!!
Well I do really like turning the clocks ahead because I prefer the longer afternoons and evenings. I am sure it’s tough to get up and out to run in the dark. Hope your long run went well today-that’s some warm temps already! Have a great week ahead
22 miles!!! You’re probably running while I’m typing this.
There’s no getting around it, the time change was BRUTAL. I felt wiped out on Mon and Tues.
I’m lol’ing at your UFO encounter. Best running pic of the year!
I struggled with the time change this week.
What are your pirforimis exercises?
Love that last moon shot photo! So cool!
I was pretty tired this week, and my son was EXHAUSTED. His classes start at 7:30 and so it felt like 6:30, well, you know, I don’t have to spell this out. But since he’s in a trades program it’s pretty much physical labour all day and he was pretty thankful to catch up on sleep on the weekend.
Looks like a good, balanced week! Hope your long run went well! Thinking by now you must be about done…. or probably are already. I think you’re on eastern time?
I’ve always been curious about how you take those photos of yourself running–and I love the blurry ones, actually, because that feels so “real”!
I have to say I enjoyed not having to change the clocks, haha! I am missing the later sunrises because now I only see them when I’m driving to the trailhead and not when I’m running, which I could remedy by starting earlier but probably won’t. By the summer our sunrises are at 5 am and I can’t imagine getting up at 4 to be able to see them so I just enjoy them as part of winter running and am mostly fine missing them the rest of the year.
22 miles in that heat is impressive! I feel like an odd one out in the ultra world as I don’t do many long runs over 18-19 miles in training for a race (I did do a 50K 6 weeks out from my 100K, but most of my other long runs were 14-16 miles) but that’s because I’m so slow on the technical terrain here that my long runs usually take me 4-6 hours and I feel like I’m getting decent time on feet in. And I feel better having my long run not be such a huge percentage of my weekly miles, but I’m always impressed by runners who regularly do 20+ milers in training!