Once again the days are flying by at an alarming rate and October is drawing to a close. As always, I’m joining Holly and Tricia for the #WeeklyWrap link-up. When you’re done here, please visit these two great ladies and all of the other fun bloggers linking up.
Monday: An easy run of 4 miles.
Tuesday: The plan called for 4 miles and I’ve been trying to shift to some late day running to get ready for Vegas. Well, life and family schedules caused me to keep pushing this run later and later and eventually it just didn’t happen. (This is exactly why I’m a morning runner!)
Wednesday: Strength day with Trainer Stacey. Turkish get-ups, deadlifts, bear crawls and lots of core work were all part of the mix.
Thursday: 3-mile tempo intervals. I don’t know where the RC coaches came up with this one! Plan called for two sets of tempo intervals with a 3 min rest, plus warm up and cool down. I’ll just say there was a lot of swearing!
Friday: 4 more easy miles in crazy swirling winds, followed by a much needed sports massage.
Saturday: Just a two mile shakeout run.
Sunday: Canton Fall Classic 5K. I haven’t run a 5K in ages and I forgot just how hard they can be. I also forgot how challenging this course is – mile 2 is just one hill after another. But this is a great local race – it’s always great to see so many of the runners I see out and about every day all running this race. There are also a lot of families running together and it was fun to be out there with my son. He totally smoked me, by the way, but he waited at the finish line and cheered me in (and to be fair, he asked if it was ok before he took off).
Tell me something about your week.
Congrats to you and your son! FWIW I didn’t do any later running to prep for Vegas and this earlybird was fine. Just take race day sort of easy, eat at the appropriate time so you’re not starving or stuffed. You head over to the village late afternoon if I recall. Thank heavens it no longer has that super late start it once did. That would be difficult. Cannot believe RnRVegas is almost here!
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Thanks for the tips Marcia! I’m so looking forward to it!
Oh, he is growing into such a fine young man! You must be so proud!! It takes so much determination for me to run after work – I only did when I was “training” for Ragnar, and only a few times.
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Aww thanks Coco – he does make me proud 🙂
How fun that your son did the race too! My youngest is finally getting back in shape after dealing with the broken leg all summer–I keep telling him to run with me but he won’t!
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Yeah I’m glad he’s still willing to run with me – even if he’s leaving me in the dust more often now 🙂
You had some tough workouts this week, nicely done! It must have been nice running with your son – at least he asked before he took off ahead, lol!
This week I’m looking forward to being in taper mode. That 20 miler I had was so much harder than I anticipated!
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Thanks Janelle – the RC coaches do keep it interesting! 🙂 Congrats on reaching taperville!
That sounds like a great race to do with your son! I love local races with good family atmospheres. I’m sure he enjoyed cheering you in at the finish 🙂 And that massage must have felt amazing! I have one scheduled for tomorrow and am really looking forward to it.
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The massage was sooo needed – I hope you enjoyed yours!
Lol, way to get your Thursday workout done! I haven’t done any runs in the afternoon either to prep for Vegas, but maybe I can get one in at some point. Ah I could really use a sports massage now. Congrats to you and your son on the 5K! I’m looking forward to the Turkey Trot 5K that I’ll be doing with mine.
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You should definitely treat yourself when you can – especially after finishing Chicago!
Congratulations on you and your sons race! 5ks can be really tough when you’ve been distance training for so long…glad you squeezed one in!
Thanks Teresa! I would really like to try to get more 5Ks in – it would force me to work on some speedwork.
oooh! Bear crawls are a killer! Love that you ran a 5K! I haven’t done one in awhile. Man they are hard! How great that you got out there with your son! Congrats!
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You’re s right bear crawls are a killer! I had never done them before – trainer’s keeping it interesting for sure!
Congrats to the both of you for finishing the 5k. Sounds like a tough race with all those hills.
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Thanks Lacey 🙂
5ks are the toughest distance out there, in my opinion. How fun you got to share the experience with your son. I’ve never mentioned this, but you look so much like my physician…it’s scary. You could be her twin in that race picture! Thanks for linking, Michelle!
How funny about your doctor Holly! They say everyone has a doppleganger, right?
your son is adorable! and 5ks are hard – congrats!
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Aww you’ll make him blush 😉 And 5Ks are hard…why is that?!
I so hate a 5k but I do them cause they support local things and local people! I think it is so great you and your son ran together and what a gentleman asking if he could go ahead! Proud mama moment for sure!
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The local draw is a nice thing but my goodness are they hard!
So fun that you son went to the race with you.
And I understand on the late day training. I knew with an 11 NYC race start I need to do some later long runs, but that didn’t happen because it has just been too warn still, whoops.
Yeah I haven’t done so good with the late day thing. Going to rely on the excitement to help get me through.
Best of luck with NYC!!