I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
For the first time in a long time, we weren’t on the road for the holiday. We stayed local and my brother hosted an awesome meal! My oldest son was home from school for the week, and it was nice to have a few days to just kick back and chill with the family.
My workouts for this week were pretty low-key too – here’s a quick recap of how things went down:
Monday: Yoga
Tuesday: T25 Cardio
Wednesday: Run evaluation with Coach Marc, followed by a 3-mile run
Thursday: 3-mile run
14 degrees with a feel like of 3 – Brrrr!
Friday: 1.25 power walk
Saturday: 4.5-mile run
Sunday: 1-mile walk plus yoga
Runner’s Revamp
The highlight of my workout week was meeting up with Coach Marc for a run evaluation. For these sessions, Marc works in partnership with a chiropractor Dr. Kelly for what they call “Holistic Injury Prevention & Runner’s Revamp” (HIPRR). After a warm-up run with Marc, they filmed and observed me running at various paces and then we spent quite a bit of time breaking down the film. Let me just say that watching yourself run in slow-motion is an eye-opening experience! Having each of them providing input from their different perspectives was so helpful, and I could have easily sat around talking about running all morning with them. My head was spinning by the end and thankfully they’ll be sending me all of their evaluations, along with next steps as Marc starts to build my new training plan.
Taking on the Holiday Challenge
For a little added motivation, I signed up for Race Cancer’s Holiday Challenge – the goal is to run or walk at least 1 mile each day from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve (outdoors mileage gets you Winter Warrior status). It’s the first leg of the Charity Challenge Trifecta, which includes the Winter Challenge (January 1 – 31) and Winter Challenge Overtime (Feb 1 – March 31). I did the Winter Challenge last January as part of the Black Girls Run! Boston team. I love that they added the Holiday and Overtime components for this year – I don’t know if I’ll end up doing all 3 components, but it is a great way to keep moving during the winter months. I also love that the challenge has a “3 strikes, you’re out” rule, so you can miss 2 days and still remain in the challenge – cause well…life happens, right? Holiday Challenge registration is open until 11:59 p.m on Monday if you want to join me 😉
So tell me, how was your week? Did you travel for Thanksgiving?
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I’m really excited to see what Coach Marc does for your running. And signing up for that holiday challenge will help keep you moving. It’s going to be a good winter for running!
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I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my winter running will go much better than the summer!
The HIPPR approach sounds very interesting. I cringe at my form just watching short videos taken for a runfie. LOL. How wonderful to be able to stay home for Thanksgiving. It’s something I’ve never done. Good luck with the Holiday Challenge. It’s great you can miss twice and not be kicked out. Thanks for linking!
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It’s been so long since we’ve stayed local for Thanksgiving – it felt like a luxury!
That running evaluation sounds fascinating. How cool to have perspectives of different professionals too. Hopefully they will give you good advice that helps you reach your goals. 🙂 I don’t do run streaks, but I do walk Scooby almost a mile every day. The challenge could motivate me to do a bit more.
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The evaluation really was so interesting! I’m looking forward to implementing their suggestions.
I clicked on the link for the Challenge the other day (when you posted about it on FB). It looks like a great motivator to keep one moving and grooving! I’m giving the Runner’s World Holiday Streak another go, which is very similar, but is all running-based. We had all of our kids home, too, and it was so nice, but the week went way too fast ;-(
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Good luck with the RW streak – I always toy with the idea of doing that one, but I know my body won’t love running every day. I like that the Holiday Challenge gives me the flexibility to power walk some days.
I’ve never had someone look at my running form but I really need to do that. I imagine I wouldn’t want to watch myself in slow motion but I know it would be beneficial!
That holiday challenge sounds cool! I’m currently in two StepBet games so I’m using that to help hold me accountable throughout the holidays.
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Watching my form up close like that was really eye-opening! Hopefully, Coach Marc can help me correct a thing or two.
I’m glad you had a nice Thanksgiving! It’s definitely nice to be able to stay local!
Your new training sounds very interesting! I had my run video’d once and it was so weird to watch myself! I look forward to learning more about your experience!
A daily walking challenge is probably the best I could do…I’m just not ready to run that much yet! But I think I already messed up the streak!
I think the fact that I can mix running and walking in this challenge will work best for me – my body doesn’t love run streaking.
I did a run eval recently as well. It is so humbling to watch yourself run in slow motion! I hope your new coach can help you work towards being injury free. Having the kids home for Thanksgiving is the best
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Yes – humbling is a great way to describe it! LOL!
That’s great that you were able to relax a bit over Thanksgiving! The runner evaluation sounds really interesting. I look forward to hearing more about what insights you were able to get 🙂
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Thanks Chaitali – I’m looking forward to seeing what comes out of all of it.
I love that challenge that you signed up for. I should look into that. How cool to be filmed. I have never really watch myself running and am sure I could use some pointers!
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Did you get a chance to check out the Challenge? I think it will give me a little extra motivation to keep moving – I’m toying with adding on the 2nd round which starts on Jan 1.
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Working out kinda fell on the backburner for me over the past week but I was walking several miles a day, so at least there’s that! I’m resetting this week! :]! That challenge looks like fun!
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All of that walking is a great thing! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving too!
We stayed put for the holiday too & I ran a Turkey Trot 5K. That Holiday challenge sounds great, I may make myself do something similar to make sure I keep moving.
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We have all of our family within 10 or so miles of us so we stayed around home. But that also meant we got to eat a ton of really great food and have a lot of fun with family.
That evaluation sounds awesome! I don’t think I need to see myself in slow motion. Ever. I can only imagine it would be worst than my most hideous race pictures. You know the ones.
We were home on Thanksgiving Day, but then we drove 4-5 hours to my college roommate’s house to spend two nights and join them for the Miami Hurricanes game. It was fun, but I was pretty worn out when the weekend came to a close.
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Oh! I feel your pain on that 14 degree run…way to bundle up and get out there though!!
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We also stayed home this year for Thanksgiving! Both of our families live just about 900 miles north, so we pick either Thanksgiving or Christmas to visit. This year Christmas won!
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A running evaluation sounds like what I need when I can run again!
I hope you get helpful information to improve your running!
BRRRR thinking of running in that cold just makes me shiver! I can’t believe I used to run in the cold. Texas has made me a wimp! Haha
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and have a great week ahead!
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