I love Fridays and I think this one will be decent as I do not have to work open to close. Woot Woot!
2 years ago
It’s fair time here and I think I may be skipping it this year. What? Don’t get me wrong, I am craving a funnel cake something fierce but the idea of the costs and all those people does not float my boat. Hell, getting to and from work for the last week and a half has been stupid. We’re a town of 30,000 and right now we’re probably clearing 100,000. And yes, we have that many hotels.
My summer TV binge continues. I finished Veronica Mars over the weekend. I then broke up with Hulu. I really did. Now, I’m on to Teen Wolf. Which I watched before and is surprisingly better than you think. Well, once you get past first season. That was pretty cheesy.
The heatwave is real but I’ve been at work all week and haven’t been able to leave so I feel like I’ve missed most of it. Ha!
I was giving directions in Spanish one day this week and totally blanked on the word 20. What? How basic is that??
Of all the bands at the fair so far, I could only hear a little from Blake Shelton and Cardi B. Why Don’t We has been the loudest so far. I heard nothing from Lynyrd Skynyrd. Really?
My training plan is all messed up this week. I may have given myself a concussion and I have to work on Saturday. Boo.
Monday and Tuesday were the last of my vacation days. They were hot ones. Not gonna lie, I was pretty lazy these days. I did finish a book so maybe not too lazy. Then it was back to work.
My body felt out of whack from sitting in my chair at work. I had a headache by the end of the day on Wednesday, Thursday and FRiday. Oh no, am I getting old?? I really do like my job, I just felt a little achy last week. 🙂
I got a little too flexible with the drag and drop feature of my training app. I had big visions of how the week was going to go. I really should just stick to the plan. I was also supposed to run a race on Saturday but that didn’t happen.
So instead of highlighting what I should have done, how about just what I did?
Monday- 2 miles I was fried from Sunday’s trail run and anytime in the sun made me feel abnormally hot. I found a baggy race shirt, left the pack behind and made it out for a shuffled 2 mile run. T- shirts are hot! Who wears those?? Did I mention it was 100*?
Tuesday- 2 miles up/down, 6x 400 at 5K pace- 4ish miles Still in the middle of a heat advisory, I took my sad self to the gym. I had originally hoped to run my long run on this day as it was the last day of my vacation but I knew that wasn’t happening on the treadmill. So I did Thursday’s intervals instead. The treadmill and my watch disagreed so even though the treadmill said I nailed my repeat paces, my watch had me a minute slower. Grrrr.
Wednesday- 2 miles The temps dropped drastically so this was a breezy, cool 2 miles.
Thursday- Oops Was planning on either my mile repeats or my long run but The Lion King called instead. And copious amounts of popcorn.
Friday- Nada I have to start running in the morning. Even though I take my bag of gear inside every Friday, I don’t use it. By the time we close, I am just done. Especially this Friday.
Saturday- 10 miles It was supposed to be cooler and I woke with a migraine so I pushed my run to the afternoon. It was 80 but there was a good breeze so it should have been fine. However I tried to throw my mile repeats into the workout instead of running a steady pace. Yeah, I flamed out. I finished the run but was off pace for both the 2 repeats I did and then the later “easy” miles. It was actually my second slowest 10 miles ever. ha! Thanks for that tidbit Smashrun.
Sunday- 4ish miles I knew I was behind miles for the week and part of me planned on running twice this day. The other part won. I did run up and down a steep trail though. Ok, power hiked up and ran down but still. Again, I ran in the afternoon but it wasn’t too bad. The trail had its shady parts. Though I did kind of want to jump in the water at the end.
22.5/25 miles for the week. Still short but I am calling it good.
I write this on the last day of my first real vacation of the year. For someone who used to hate vacations, they sure have grown on me in recent years.
This was a staycation but I was so looking forward to it. I was feeling a little ragged. But like any good staycation, I had a to do list.
So how did I do?
I did not get my tires rotated.
I did read 2 books and almost finished my audio book.
I did not wash my car.
I did hit the trails. Twice- for 12 ish miles of awesomeness. From ocean view to mountain view.
I did not run ALL the miles. Some health issues got in the way. That sounds much heavier than it was, oops.
I did run 5 out of the 7 days though. I call that a win.
I maybe didn’t make the healthiest choices in food.
I ate all the good things. I even tried ice cream called Jack & Coke. And it tasted just like it sounds. Yum.
I did not make it to the movies to see Spiderman.
I did watch an array of disaster movies though. Why those seemed like a good idea when I was feeling poorly, not sure.
I did wind up with the gnarliest sunburn.
I did use sunblock.
I had a birthday. Part of me feels older and part of me doesn’t.
I didn’t manage to stop checking my work phone on the daily. Oops.
Also I didn’t mean to only post one blog post last week, the week flew by oddly fast.
I only worked 2 days before starting my first real vacation of the year. It was also my birthday so a few more indulgences may have occurred than normal. My stomach chose to remind me of it’s asshat ways on a few occasions and I also had a fun migraine try to join the birthday party.
I also may have gotten a little creative with my training plan. First by liberally rearranging things and then taking some creativity with certain runs. Then came the heat advisory. Hey, when life gives you lemons, right?
Monday- 2 miles up/down, 4x 800 at 5k pace/ Nailed it Speedwork on a Monday is a little different. I headed to the lake so I didn’t have intersections to worry about. Why haven’t I done this before? For once it was nice to nail the pace for all of the 800’s. Could I have run faster? Yes, but maintaining it was not likely.
Tuesday- 1.5 miles/ 1.5 miles Easy, not so breezy miles.
Wednesday- 1.5 miles/ 4ish mile trail run First day of vacation and my rearranged week was already taking hits. Instead of my long run, I headed down to SLO for some shopping and ended the day by hitting a trail. Have absolutely no complaints about time spent in the dirt with ocean views.
Thursday -10 miles/ sick I started to get sick on Wednesday evening and it was downhill from there. Unless a 2.5 hour naps counts as training, I did nothing.
Friday- .5 mile warmup, 6 mile tempo/ 5.5 ish meltdown Birthday!! I admit I slept in a bit- it was my birthday, why not? It was still early my standards but it wasn’t enough. I managed 1 mile at tempo pace before I spectacularly blew up. It was 80* with 50% humidity and I was not handling it. At all. I all but crawled the next few miles and cut the run short by a mile.
Then it was time for a cold shower and off to birthday lunch.
Saturday- 10 miles redux/ migraine city A migraine moved in Friday and took up residence. I tried my best to deal with it in my usual ways but ending up taking one of the heavy duty pain pills in the evening. My neurologist will be so proud. It did level my vision so yay!
Sunday- How many times can I type 10 miles?/ 8+ mile trail run Still in the midst of a heat advisory, I figured heading south would be my best bet for the run. I had my mom and S along for the ride- I love this trail but it has given me some creepy vibes in the past. This way they could hike and I could run and at least they would only be few miles behind me. I underestimated the heat. By mile 4 I was feeling it. I don’t think I’ve ever been so sweaty in my life, it was gross and it was hard. So hard. I relished the break I got at the top while I waited for them to catch up. I was so looking forward to the run down but the heat had gotten to me, the return down was more of a jog/walk and a lament as to where all the shade had gone.
So 23.83 miles for the week. Plan called for 26.5, oops. Still, it could be worse and I can’t complain about any week where I get to run on the trails twice.
This week was up and down and topsy turvy and that was before the earthquakes.
Yeah, Cali’s been moving around this week. On one hand the former wanna be geologist in me is excited by earthquakes. On the other, my town suffered a lot in the last big quake about 15 years ago. Downtown was leveled, a sulfur spring ruptured and numerous other buildings were condemned. And for some reason it took almost 10 years to cap that damn spring. Downtown was rebuilt but we had a giant hole blocked off in the library parking lot for years. A stinky one at that.
In other news, going back to work the day after the 4th of July was hard. It was like the Monday of Fridays. Anyone else not have a long weekend?
But only took a pic of the old Library
And then I played tourist in my town on Saturday and ventured out to the Lavender Festival.
Plan vs Reality
Monday- 1.5 miles/ 1.5 miles I don’t recall much about this run other than I got it done. I didn’t even post about it to social media, ha! But I took a pic so I guess it really happened.😛
Tuesday- 2 mile up/down, 3x 1 mile repeats at 5K pace / 1.5 up/down, 3 miles of pain- yoga I’ve been beginning to realize that I may over overstepped with the training paces on my training plan. Reality hammered that home with this run. Not only did I tank the paces prescribed, I ended with a possible injury. I knew I should have quit during the second repeat attempt but I am stupid. So stupid. I limped back to my car hence the shorter cool down.
Wednesday- 1.5 miles/ Nada I limped around the office all day, that was fun. My stomach also decided to hate me so that was fun.
Thursday- July 4Th! 4 mile fartlek/ MM100 I thought about trying for at least an easy run but decided to be smart instead. Boo. I did attempt a very slow workout video.
Friday- 1.5 miles/ Nada My leg felt better until the end of the day but I was just fried and didn’t run. I really need to figure out how to run in the morning. Especially when I work open to close.
Saturday- 9 miles/ 9 miles I actually got up early for this! Except nasty humidity rolled in so I actually think it was hotter than my last 2 long runs in the afternoon heat. Oh and I got fried. So much for sunblock. I also think it was the slowest 9 miles I’ve ever run. I had a freakin’ panic attack around mile 3. I started noticing the symptoms just before crossing the bridge. Which could have been partly fueled by the previous nights tremor. I’m not a big fan of bridges, at least not being on them, so why I chose today of all days to run across it for the first time in months, I have no idea. I refused to let the panic attack win and just slowed way down anytime I felt the usual symptoms. I also explored a side path off one street in an effort to distract myself.
Sunday- Rest/ Rest I thought about trying to make up some of the 7 miles I missed throughout the week but ended up napping instead. Oh and I started Stranger Things 3.
15.3 miles out of 22.5 for the week. My leg is still not right so I am holding out optimism for the week to come. Plus I went in and adjusted the paces zones in my training plan so now they should at least be achievable.
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