Week 5: July 18-24

Week 5: July 18- July 24

Monday:
I was scheduled to have an early morning strength workout with Moiria today but my body was still feeling the effects of the strenuous workouts the day before and canceled the workout. Throughout the day I focused on hydrating lots more than usual due my low energy level.

I did attend the Body Flow class in the evening and even that seemed more challenging than normal to me. I’m hoping that this hot spell that is going through the area will past sooner rather than later.

I also decided to hold off on my weekly swim lesson with Derek. I haven’t had much time in the last week to practice some of the things we worked on during the previous lesson.

Tuesday:
I woke up and literally had to drag myself out of bed in order to attend Moira’s AM bootcamp. I’m glad that I got up and went through the workout but at the same time I was really tired throughout the class and then the remainder of the day.

The track workout was canceled due to the heat index so I decided to get my run done inside on the treadmill. It felt great to have a cool fan blowing on me as I ran. It was also nice to have a t.v. right in front of me as I ran. It was still hard to believe that I’m running inside in the summer due to the weather!!

Wednesday:
Since I was having a tough time getting up early this week I decided to try a different hot yoga class this week in the afternoon as opposed to the morning. This week I tried the Warm Flow class at 5:30-6:30. Although it wasn’t as hot as the normal Hot Flow class that I attend it was still very challenging. One of the differences was the use of the foam roller.

The group workout was canceled tonight, again due to the heat. I made the decision again to run inside on the treadmill at Harbor. It felt good to have completed the runs even without feeling like all my energy was fully drained. The one thing I found out recently about running on a treadmill is to make sure you have the incline set to at least 1.0. This helps to simulate what it would be like to run outside.

Thursday:
I completed a strength workout with Moira. We completed a number of different functional exercises that worked my core and upper body muscles.

Friday:
I decided to take the day off from the any sort of exercise due to the Tough Mudder event that I would be completing on Saturday.

Saturday:
I participated in the Tough Mudder event held at the Devil’s Head Resort. I won’t go into a lot of detail because it would be better to just look up the event on the internet in order to see some of the events. It was a crazy experience and something that I would highly recommend people try.

I think that all the workouts that I’ve done at Harbor and the running that I’ve completed really prepared me for this event. Out of the nearly 7,000 that completed the event many struggled with throughout.

Sunday:
I met the Fleet Feet group for a 13-mile run at the Panera Bread on University. We ran through the UW campus and over to the east side. Although I was technically supposed to go 16 miles today my legs and body were pretty sore from the Tough Mudder. I thought that just completing the 13 miler would allow me to keep my distances up while not over doing it with my body.