Towpath Half Marathon Training : Week 4

This week flew by like none other.  I traveled a bit for work, which was great for my running!  I managed to have one of my best weeks of the past few months, so I would call it a success!  Here's a lot at how the week went down:



Monday

5 miles /  45:40 / 9:07 pace
I was at Penn State for recruiting and went on a morning run around campus.  The weather was absolutely prefect and my entire body just wanted to run fast!  I haven't seen paces like this in a while so it was really encouraging.


Tuesday

Yoga / 45:00
Lunchtime yoga as usual!  I was getting some headaches when we did any poses upside down (like downward facing dog) for long periods of time, so I took it easy for parts of the class.


Wednesday

3 miles / 26:15 / 8:45 pace
1 mile cool down / 10:00 / 10:00 pace
 Morning speed workout on the treadmill.  I did one mile repeats of gradually picking up the pace, starting at 6.0 and increasing speed .5mph every quarter mile, with a mile cool-down.  Ended up being a great workout!


Thursday

Rest day!


Friday

Tae-Bo / 30:00
Has anyone else ever done Tae-Bo before?  It used to be one of my favorite exercsises to do growing up, and I decided to pull out my old DVD for a workout!  If you haven't given it a try, do it.  It's really fun!


Saturday

3.5 miles
The weather was really weird in the morning and was raining on and off, so I headed out for a quick workout while it was "off".  It was really humid out, but nice and breezy.  I went around my neighborhood for a hilly and fun run!


Sunday

10 miles / 1:35:28 / 9:32 pace
My legs felt so good on this run, but the weather was awful!  There were storms all afternoon, so it was really humid and warm out in the morning.  I powered through for my long run, but I wish it was a nicer day!  Hopefully race day will have better weather.  Dan and I spent the rest of the day picking up furniture and a shed for the house, moving furniture between rooms and cleaning, so by the end of the day I was exhausted!  Definitely a productive weekend!


What was your best workout this week?
Do you like to run at an old school or neighborhood?
Ikea- yay or nay?  Yay for me!  I love it!

Comments

  1. Kristy Sayer-Jones @ Southern In LawSeptember 19, 2016 at 1:21 AM

    Way to go on an awesome week of workouts, girl! And cross training too!

    I loveeeeeeeeeeeee IKEA - though I always feel like it's a time vortex as I walk in there and all of a sudden five hours have passed and I've got three chairs I didn't need :P

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  2. Jess @ Jess Runs ATLSeptember 19, 2016 at 1:23 AM

    Great week! I am also loving that new Siam song right now!!!!

    I've started a linkup for weekly Recaps on my blog, I hope you'll consider joining!

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  3. UnknownSeptember 19, 2016 at 4:13 AM

    Alex refuses to go into IKEA on principle. Something about having assembled too many of those buggers in the past...
    ANd yay for a great week!

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  4. Heather [is probably running]September 19, 2016 at 4:51 AM

    Nice work on the running and cross training last week!

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  5. Jennifer @ Dashing in StyleSeptember 19, 2016 at 6:37 AM

    Awesome week! Cool that you got to run at Penn State! The weather was wonderful during the week but then of course got crappy for the weekend! Oh well--October is sure to be better...right?!

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  6. UnknownSeptember 19, 2016 at 8:15 AM

    I used to do Tae Bo too! I loved it!! Ahh memories. I love Ikea too. Nice training last week! Those progressive treadmill runs are tough but feel good after. And yes I love Ikea. I am long overdue for an Ikea trip.

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  7. Ellen @ My Uncommon EverydaySeptember 19, 2016 at 10:32 AM

    Ikea is fun - and so is Tae Bo! I used to watch my mom do it when I was a pretty young kid, and I liked to join in (albeit pathetically) :) Awesome runs last week!

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  8. Kristen @ See You In A PorridgeSeptember 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM

    ikea yay for sure! good job this week, sunday was the same over here - super humid in the morning. 13 miles felt like 30. not good lol

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  9. UnknownSeptember 19, 2016 at 4:35 PM

    Great job on the workouts!! :) Love that you included a throwback to Tae Bo!! My best workout this week was my long run on Friday (16 miles at an 8 min pace!!) felt good after a few runs that just didn't feel so great earlier in the week :)

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  10. Elle SeesSeptember 20, 2016 at 4:26 AM

    Great job!! I am looking forward to cooler temps to be outside more.

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