Week 4 is starting off with the complete opposite of a bang....my legs and body were tired from last week so I'm dialing down a bit with the number of classes I do and relaxing more. Deena Kastor takes a 2 hr nap daily when she's training...i'm following her.
Mon: 5.5 miles with Jess. We ran around Brooklyn and then did hill repeats up the BK/Dumbo hill. I then had to run to yoga class since I was late so I tacked on an extra 1/2 mile. Yoga with Aarona at Park Slope Yoga was just what I needed. We did her Basics class and thank god - I don't think I would have made it through a full Vinyasa class.
Tues: Woke up with a slight crick in my neck and was hoping yoga would fix it. Felt great in Robyn's class - she's wonderful with alignment and opening up the hips and shoulders. Perfect way to stretch out before TRACK! and yes, that is how I say it to myself - with a combination of dread and excitement. I have to psych myself up for the workouts. There are a lot of fast people and part of me wants to beat them.
Since Jess couldn't go, I biked down.
Workout: 4x 1200 (3 laps of the track) with 400 recovery and 3x300 with 100 recovery. The Dreaded 1200s!
Went slow on the first one and then consistently got faster over the next 3. However, my group went out so fast on the 300s that I was dying, dying, dying on the last one. The coach said I had bobble-head - meaning, i was flailing all over the place just trying to finish.
Went home and slept!
Wed: Jess and I skipped the morning run and I relaxed -ahhhhhhh glorious. Didn't go to yoga or any other type of class. We ran in the evening, about 6.5, for me.
Thurs: Tempo Day. We've decided to make Thursdays our Tempo Run, which is about 20 to 30 seconds slower than 5k race pace. Since neither of us have any clue what our true 5k race pace is right now (I have an idea) we picked 8min/mile as our starting tempo pace. We are hoping to increase to 7:15s. We took the subway to Bowling Green and ran up the WSH. We did a 2 mile tempo run at 7:45 and 7:44. So, we are faster than we thought. Rewarded ourselves with a smoothie, for Jess, and a beet/carrot/kale juice for me.
Added a body conditioning class to my schedule for the day which was great b/c I got in my sit-ups, push-ups and squats that I conveniently forget about.
Fri: Rest day! Going to restorative yoga at Shambhala after work. Looking forward to resting my legs and having a good Saturday long run.
Sat: long run and yoga
Sun: yoga in Prospect Park and 2 miles easy. That's about all i had in me to do after working and yoga. Ate pizza and enjoyed every bite of it.
mileage: 40.5
classes: 5 yoga classes and 1 conditioning class
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