Running the Week

May 2, 2016

There are weeks that run us into the ground, scratching and clawing at us to squeeze out every ounce of our energy and focus. But other weeks, we run the show. I love those weeks. They are the weeks in which we feel like our own superhero – where we do all the things we say we’re going to do and have an inner spark that never gets blown out. Last week was one of those weeks for me.

Here are the highlights.

Workouts

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  • Monday: 1 hour of barre at Barre Fitness
  • Tuesday: 5.13 easy miles with friends
  • Wednesday: 5.35 miles of speed work with friends – I led a speed session on a flat stretch of road along the water. We warmed up with one easy mile followed by dynamic stretching. Next, we ran a progression that looked like this: 5 mins at marathon pace (7:50/mile … we ran 7:53), 4 minutes easy, 4 minutes between marathon and half marathon pace (7:40 … we ran 7:36), 3 minutes easy, 3 minutes at half marathon pace (7:30, we ran 7:33), 2 minutes easy, 2 minutes at 10K pace (7:20 … we ran 7:15), 2 minutes easy, 1 minute at or faster than 5K pace (we ran 6:19), 1 minute easy. We ended with 1.5 miles of easy cool down running.
  • Thursday: 1 hour of spinning at SoHo Cycling
  • Friday: 1 hour of strength training intervals at South Tampa Fit (hands down my favorite workout in Tampa)
  • Saturday: 7 miles easy with friends
  • Sunday: 1 hour of barre at Barre Fitness

If you’ve been reading for a while, you know I take all my fitness and cross training classes as part of my ClassPass membership. I’m a national ambassador and love it.

Songs

I almost never run without music, and I found two songs I’m OBSESSED with this week. I discovered them during my spin class and immediately searched for them on Spotify after class. If you’re a junkie for running with music, you must download these two songs.

  • Tambourine by Eve
  • My Body by Young the Giant (I especially love the lyrics in this song for running that say “My body tells me no but I won’t quit  cause I want more.”)

Food

I had six out of seven good days of eating. I’ll take it (and will forget about the entire small cheese pizza and beers I had on Saturday … sorry, not sorry). My favorite recipe of the week was a new one I tried from Skinny Fitalicious. It was Turkey Spaghetti Zoodles and it took me a total of 20 minutes to make, was delicious and made enough for some leftovers for lunch the next day. It’s definitely a keeper!

Two-A-Day Workouts

My favorite new thing about living in Tampa is that my husband and I can bike everywhere. So it’s not technically a second workout for the day, but it’s great to keep the car in the garage and be more active. Last week, we biked to a Lightning playoff game (my first ever Lightning game and second hockey game ever) and to an outdoor festival.

Running the Week on runladylike.com
Running the Week on runladylike.com
Running the Week on runladylike.com
Running the Week on runladylike.com
Running the Week on runladylike.com

Up Next

I’m in Chicago the rest of this week for work, escaping the hot and humid weather in Florida and running in one of my favorite cities where I fell in love with long distance running. Be sure to follow me on Instagram to keep up with my Chicago shenanigans.

How did your week go last week? What new recipes and running songs are you loving right now? What non-running activity was most fun for you last week?

Comments

Allie

I love it when a week comes together like that!! Good for you!! I also love that you two can bike everywhere. I would kill for that 🙂
Chicago is one of my most favorite cities so have much fun as you can on a business trip!

Staci

I love running along the lake in Chicago. The weather here is def not warm though!!
You guys are such an adorable couple! And I have yet to go to a hockey game…it is on my list of things to do and for some reason I always neglect making plans to actually go.

Sarah @ SarahRuns26

We did alot of tiling in our new house, so I spent alot of time screwing down concrete board. Does that count as a workout, because it felt like it!

I’m loving Pink’s new song, Just Like Fire right now! It’s so good!

I love Chicago! Have fun!

Laura @ This Runner's Recipes

I love it when a week comes together so well – glad you had one of those weeks! Those weeks make all of the rough runs so worth it. Biking everywhere sounds fantastic – definitely on my priority list for when my husband and I buy our permanent home. Have fun in Chicago and enjoy running along Lake Michigan! 🙂

Sara

I had one of those “Superhero” weeks last week while training for my 70.3, and I’m hoping to carry that momentum for the next few! Enjoy Chicago, you are lucky that the weather will be beautiful (for us) this week 🙂 . We also have plenty of biking opportunities along the lakefront path.

elizabeth

it definitely seems like my running music is stale! just listening to pandora as of late. seems like we both made moves to MUCH prettier places than the atl- glad you are loving it. i made skinny tastes chicken parm, banana blueberry bread, and pineapple cupcakes- all easy and DELICIOUS!