Welcome to August!

To be honest, I can’t believe we already here! July just seemed to go by way to fast. I’m also still surprised that I managed 122km of running last month – happy mother runner right here 🙂

Week #6 of Half Marathon Training – What was Planned VS. What Really Happened:

Monday July 27th – Rest Day – Rest Day – rocking my Mondays!

Tuesday – 5k – 5k of hills around 9 am. This was a HOT run and I was regretting that I planned to run the hills as I was doing it but thankful after I finished. I ran this around 33 minutes.

Wednesday 7k – 7k at 11:11 am This was another HOT one! I decided to wear a hat and sunglasses and I’m pretty sure that’s what saved me on this run. I figured it was just going to get hotter as the day went on so why not get my run done before noon.

Thursday 5k – 6k on the trails and did a little speed work aka Fartlek’s. Again, this was a last-minute decision to run and I left the house around 10 am. I figured running on the trail would give me a little shade from the HOT sun.

Friday – Rest Day – Rest Day/Cross train. I mowed the lawn around 9am and was drenched in sweat afterwards. I’m totally taking it as a cross training day 😉

Saturday – 5k Race – 6k Treadmill Run. This run was terrible! I dislike every moment during the run. It was supposed to be a 5k race but that wasn’t able to happen so figured I’d run between 7-10k just to get a nice long run in! Nope – that didn’t happen. What can you do?

Also – we spent the morning at the Zoo and then afternoon running through our sprinkler – this could have added to my lack of enthusiasm for running on the treadmill.

Sunday – Cross Train – Nothing!

I was feeling 100% down in the dumps on Sunday and I still don’t know why. I had great plans of taking the girls to a local beach but I couldn’t bring myself to do even that. I am hoping it’s because I’m just beyond exhausted and I will feel better Monday. Blah!

Overall: I started off the week pretty strong but feel like I slipped once the weekend hit. I’m impressed that I did some hill work AND speed work and am going to continue to do those on my Tues/Thursday runs.

Highlights

• Randomly choosing to run mid morning – no stress of early morning runs or fitting it in at the end of the day.
• The thumbs up from a stranger as I ran up a hill on a HOT HOT run.
• Playing in the sprinkler with our girls – it’s not just for kids 😉

Low point – Saturday & Sunday.

Week 6 # of km: 24

Total KM of training to date: 156

Looking forward to this week:

• More vacation and running in PEI
• The Beach
• Being with my family.

In case you missed it; Week #5 Update here. Bring on week #7 – this one is going to be all over the map in terms of following my schedule but it’s all good! 

How was your weekend?

Anyone race?

Anyone participate in the Not Since Moses Race in Nova Scotia? Check it out here!