Not a lot of quilting or crocheting going on around here this week. Most school days end with coming home and gearing up for one training run or another. I know most of this blog's followers are quilting friends met over the years, but if anyone is also on the Garmin fitness app, come join me as a Connection: (Garmin profile)
Monday: Long & Strong & Fast via NRC Interval run (8:00/10K pace; 4:00/5K pace; 2:00/mile pace - repeat x3). Ended up tallying 6 miles. Roads were clear and dry so I wore my Brooks Adrenaline 23s; truly my favorite running shoe currently.
Bailee and I put the sun to bed that night, which isn't all that hard. More and more minutes of sunlight are coming our way daily, but the sun still sets right around 5:00, so Bailee and I are donning our safety harnesses glowing ever-so-brightly, for most of our runs.
Tuesday: Just a simple 5K recovery run with Jen, a colleague, directly after school (~11:34 pace)
Wednesday: An even easier run - "Bring It Down" via NRC; working to hold a tempo pace of 10:30s for 15 minutes after a warmup. End up tacking another 1.86 miles to the tally. But Bailee and I weren't done with that simple task, so we added a powerwalk of 2.8 miles @ 14:32/pace as a cooldown.
Thursday: Powerwalk time with Bailee for the 'rest day.' We clipped along nicely for 3 miles @ 13:58(!)
Then on Friday - man, I was dragging. Body was tired. Mind was tired; t'was the first day in quite some time when I couldn't wait for the final bell to ring in order to simply GO HOME.
I ate. I rested. I ate some more.
And Saturday morning was an entirely different story.
Bailee and I start the day with a powerwalk of 3.29 miles (14:08), then a different colleague (Lisa) reached out to see about walking 3 miles in the mall; check. And THEN... laced up during a light snowfall for an EZ long run around our town's lake.
The New Balance Hierro V7 Trail Runners were worn due to the snow cover. They are heavier and quite a bit clunkier, but the traction seems to handle the covered roads decently enough to keep me feeling confident with my cadence and strides.
This morning, the week was wrapped up with a short, easy recovery run with Jen after a few fresh inches fell over night. We wound up driving into town in order to run roads that had already been plowed.
I thought today would bring on some quilting, but in full honesty, I've had my feet up for much of the afternoon, watching Virgin River (and now the Packers).
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