I've been house and dog sitting this week and it's been an absolute nightmare for the most part - I've been so busy and stressed out. I knew that I might have had to change around a couple of runs this week but didn't know that I'd probably be nothing like what I had planned.
With that said, I did run 5 times last week even though it wasn't exactly to schedule, so something was better than nothing!
Let me tell you what I did..
Week 2 Training Schedule
| Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday | Scheduled Swim/CT 3 Miles 5 Miles CT/Rest CT/Rest Park Run/Tempo Run Interval Run | What I Did 1.32 mile run - Paint the Bathroom Paint the Bathroom 1 mile run 3.06 miles 1.56 miles Nothing 4 miles |
Turns out the former is correct. It's definitely still beneficial for me to go for a run than it is for me to walk.. BUT, it's probably not that much faster. Risky gets excited to go out for a run - She's hyper for the first 5 minutes of a run... and then she just wants to stop and sniff or pee... or do anything OTHER than run - which is a complete nightmare! So, I got some mileage in, but there was no chance of any speed in there.
My pace for the 4 mikes was an avg pace of 9:28 which I'm pretty stoked with. If I could comfortably run a 10 km under 10 min/mi I'd be ecstatic!
Week 3 Training Schedule
| Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday | Scheduled REST - Juice Cleanse REST - Juice Cleanse REST - Juice Cleanse Rest/CT/Short Run Hill Run Park Run / Tempo 3-5 miles |
I mentioned in my blog post yesterday that I'd be doing a juice cleanse at the start of this week(which is going great BTW!). So I'll only be doing 3 runs this week which is totally fine with me.
I'm travelling to my parents on early Thursday morning, so I'll be running whilst I'm there. I'll either do a shorter run - or just chill out and catch up with the family.
On Friday - I'll go out in the morning and do some hills! My parents live in the North West - and there's some pretty major hills near where they live, so that should be interesting!
Phillip and I are planning on doing the Preston Park run for the first time. I have no idea where it is so hopefully it wont be too hard to find! There will probably be a fair few hills in the park too but we'll see - it's been ages since I've been to the park so I can't even remember it!
On Sunday - I'll just go out for whatever I feel like I think. Between 3 and 5 is completely OK with me and I'll probably try and do the same as what I did this past Sunday and run the first 2 miles at Tempo.
As long as I run whilst I'm away, it's all good! I'll make it happen. Plus.. I'm pretty pumped for a different park run!
Question: Have you ever done a park run? What do you like about them?
I'm travelling to my parents on early Thursday morning, so I'll be running whilst I'm there. I'll either do a shorter run - or just chill out and catch up with the family.
On Friday - I'll go out in the morning and do some hills! My parents live in the North West - and there's some pretty major hills near where they live, so that should be interesting!
Phillip and I are planning on doing the Preston Park run for the first time. I have no idea where it is so hopefully it wont be too hard to find! There will probably be a fair few hills in the park too but we'll see - it's been ages since I've been to the park so I can't even remember it!
On Sunday - I'll just go out for whatever I feel like I think. Between 3 and 5 is completely OK with me and I'll probably try and do the same as what I did this past Sunday and run the first 2 miles at Tempo.
As long as I run whilst I'm away, it's all good! I'll make it happen. Plus.. I'm pretty pumped for a different park run!
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