I feel like I owe you people an update with lots of pictures, but I was gonna go to bed at 10:15 and it's 11:30, so ... no pictures in this one.
Week In Review: April 8th - April 14th
Monday:
Run - 3.01 miles, 39:02 minutes, 12:58 min/mi avg pace. Stopped towards the end to get a bagel and then ran 0.75 miles home carrying the bagel. #sorrynotsorry
barre3 - with Bri! My first time taking Bri (I think) and she was great. I purposely took it kind of easy to not wear myself out for the long week ahead.
Eating - Meh. I just really like bagels, okay? And I don’t have that much food in the apartment at the moment anyway.
Tuesday:
Run - 3.88 miles, 48:39 minutes, 12:32 min/mi avg pace. Was gonna do this one in Central Park for a change of pace but Central Park sucks so I went back out onto the streets. This was supposed to be EC, but I was slow and also took some walk breaks that I probably didn’t need. Tl;dr - this was the crap run of the week (although there was a close second later in the week).
Eating - Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s. #sorrynotsorry
Wednesday:
Run - 4.06 miles, 51:21 minutes, 12:39 min/mi avg pace. This was a good run. Ending up modifying my course a drop on the fly, but it was fine. After Tuesday’s crap run, I needed this.
Was originally scheduled for barre3, but cancelled because I wanted to not overload my legs. Ended up being a good thing because of my life schedule.
Eating - Did okay mostly. Ordered dinner … I’m sensing a theme for the week. I gotta start eating things I make at home.
Thursday:
Run - 4.50 miles, 50:50 minutes, 11:18 min/mi.
Tempo - 2x1.5 mi @10 mi Pace w/ 0.5 mi RI - Because of intervals and whatnot, I did them tempo as two sets of 15:20 minutes. First one was 1.46 miles (aka 10:30 min/mi pace), second one was 1.48 miles (10:21 min/mi pace). Goal pace was 10:11, so these were pretty good. And they felt good. I’d say this was a successful tempo run.
Eating - I drank two cups of coffee and a beer before having my first bottle of water of the day. But I didn’t snack that much, so I guess that’s a good thing.
Friday:
barre3 - with Kelly. I was definitely feeling the effects of a long week of running, but I still felt like I was doing okay. I think I did a good job balancing the barre and running this week.
Eating - Medium
Saturday:
Rest Day!
Eating - Could have been better, could have been worse.
Sunday:
Run - 13.14 miles, 2:32:11 hours, 11:35 min/mi avg pace.
Tempo - 5 miles HM Tempo, 1 mi Daniels T, 0.5 miles 10K - HM Tempo was 4.81 miles in 51:45 minutes, average pace 10:46 min/mi (planned pace was 10:20, but T+D was 110+, so I’m cool with it being slow). Daniels T was 1 mi in 9:49 (planned pace was 9:56, so this was a drop too fast). 10K pace was 0.50 miles in 5:00 minutes, avg pace 10:00 min/mi (planned was 9:52 min/mi.
This was a struggle pretty much throughout - I kept stopping just because I wanted a break. Sigh. (Also … I thought it was supposed to be a mile at 10K and then thought I messed up my Garmin workout, but I checked and I was wrong and it was fine).
Eating - Blah. I had some leftovers I wanted to finish, but I really could have saved some for tomorrow. Whatever.
Upcoming:
Monday - barre3
Tuesday - 4 mi Easy
Wednesday - 4 mi Easy, barre3
Thursday - 4 mi Easy
Friday - Rest Day
Saturday - Rest Day
Sunday - Rest Day
Passover starts Friday night, which is why we did peak week early and this week is a very down week. Hopefully it shouldn't interfere with my running too much.
Life Updates
Job Stuff - As you may remember, I’m in full-time job search mode right now. It’s really tough and I spend a decent percentage of my time completely discouraged. But I’m trying to stay optimistic. At least somewhat. I’ve gotten to the point where, like Alphaville, I’m hoping for the best but expecting the worst.
Apartment - I think I’ve only briefly touched on the apartment stuff on here, but this move has been a really difficult adjustment. Weekends are the hardest part because I’m not with my family and while I’m starting to make some friends, I still don’t feel super comfortable. When I was commuting to work that short commute made me feel less bad about the rough weekends because I knew the reason I had moved was because I wanted the shorter commute, but now that I’m not working, that reason no longer exists. So sometimes I wonder why I'm even living here. Anyway … I’m trying to adjust, but it’s really hard.
And ... that's all I got.