Upcoming Races-
- Rock to the Pier 10K?
- Salinas Valley Half Marathon
So yeah. This week was kind of a wash. I was prepared for July to be busy. I planned this week of workouts out accordingly. It was a good plan, like I said I was prepared. Until reality showed me otherwise. Life just laughed at me.
Work was busier than I expected. I wasn’t sleeping well, 5 hours a night if I was lucky. Then I got sick or exhausted, something like that. Summer has fully arrived after a late start and temps have been above 100 in home town most of the week. That brought power outages and way too many damn fires with it.
Monday- Rest I knew work was going to be crazy busy so I didn’t even bring my running clothes. I was not wrong. By the time I made it home, my brain was fried. For it only being Monday, that should have been a sign.
Tuesday- Rest/Sick The start of the downhill slide. I was supposed to go hiking with my dad at a new trail but my stomach was a giant ass hat all day. Nothing active happened. I did enjoy some lovely 4th of July hot dogs with my family though.
Wednesday- Rest This was partially planned. I knew work was going to be insane after the 4th so the original plan was to rest. I took running gear though since I had failed to run or hike on the 4th. However my stomach was still being an asshat so running did not happen. It was also 100+ at home when I got off work.
Thursday- 3.1 miles I woke up with a sore throat and major headache. Oh hell, no, I don’t have time to be sick. It was a calmer day at work and I was hoping that a few easy miles would help run out the oncoming head cold. I ran in work town as it was like 103 in home town. I kept the miles easy- well they felt easy-ish but they were too fast. I didn’t feel worse after the run but I didn’t feel better either.
Friday- Rest With my boss on vacation- I’m open to close on Friday’s so no working out. Plus home town was 107. And the air conditioner died.
Saturday- Rest I woke up feeling like I’d been hit by a truck. Combine that with the 105 temps and the heavy smoke from the 3 huge fires burning in the county and I was not even attempting a run. Instead I lazed around. Did spend some time looking at refrigerators as a power surge on Thursday half killed the refrigerator. Yay. By evening’s end 3 more fires had started.
Sunday- 12 miles Rest I set everything out for a long run but when my alarm went off after the first decent nights sleep I have had in weeks, I just couldn’t do it. I still didn’t feel great and I know the next 2 weeks are going to be crazy at work. Being in sick is not an option. Plus the sky was so thick with smoke, I had a hard time telling that it was actually blue.
3.1 miles for the week. Ouch but it is what it is. Moving on I need to be a little more flexible during the next 2 weeks as we move through this system conversion at work. I am now a little hesitant about my 10K next weekend. I knew July was going to be interesting so now to see what this week throws at me.๐
How was your week?
How do you handle setback weeks?
Nooooooo Fallon noooooo! That sounds like such a rough week. I think if you’re not feeling better by Wednesday, just walk the 10k or not run it at all. ๐ฆ Get better soon!
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Yeah, I will make a decision by then. I hoped I would be able to run today but I didn’t get out of work until 6 then there was the drive home. I keep joking this may turn me into a morning runner. Maybe I should try it.
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I’m so sorry you had such a rough week! I hope things start looking up for you and you’re soon 100%. You’ll do great with your 10k next week, I have no doubts!! ๐
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Thank you! Fingers crossed, I am still on the fence about registering. I am 90% positive that I won’t have to work and I do love this race so we’ll see.
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Girl, I hope you are on the mend and your week goes better!!
Jodi
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Thank you! Fingers crossed!
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I love that you still share all of this with us! Everyone needs rest weeks, and Ive learnt to programme them in as otherwise my body just gives up ๐ sorry you had such a down week, but hopefully now you’ll have lots of energy to play with ๐
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