2024 Weekly Run Down 25/52 – Deload week

This week’s stats:

Running: 15.8 mi
Cycling: 40.2 mi
Bootcamp: 60 min
Strength: 120 min
Yoga/Pilates/Barre: 115 min
Warm-up/Stretching: 70 min
Meditation: 20 min

I am linking up again for the Weekly Run Down with Kim and Deborah.

This week was a deload week – at least for the Team Wilpers Run Challenge. Easy runs only. I’ll take it, although I am really thriving on the interval/tempo runs. They’re so fun and rewarding. 

We found out this week that Kristin McGee is leaving Peloton and that’s a devastating blow. She’s one of the best (and most popular) yoga instructors on the platform. There’s been a lot of announcements lately (Ross Rayburn and Kendall Toole are leaving too) and I am a bit afraid of what that all means.

Monday

• 20 Min Full Body Strength: Week 3, Day 1 – Jess S (8/21/23) — PUTV8
• 30 Min Bootcamp: Full Body – Callie (10/10/23) – Beachbody Bootcamp/PZ-W3AR
• Team Wilpers Summer Run Challenge – W4R1
  • 45 Min Classic Rock Run – Becs (3/16/24)
    • 15 Min Warm Up
    • 20 Min Main Set
      • 5 x 15 sec strides + 45 sec @ Easy Pace
      • 10 Min @ Easy Pace
      • 5 x 15 sec strides + 45 sec @ Easy Pace
    • 10 Min Cool Down
• 10 Min Evening Stretch – Matty (6/14/24) — Summer and Self-Care
• 10 Min Core Strength – Rebecca (6/14/24) — Six Pack Pool Party

Lindsay, Sherry, and I started week 3 of the Pump Up The Volume 8 program this week and also did a Bootcamp together this morning before I headed out for my 45-minute easy run (with strides). 

Tuesday

• 5 Min Pre-Ride Warm Up – Irène (5/27/24)
• 30 Min Power Zone Endurance Ride – Denis (2/16/21) — PZ-W3R1
• 5 Min Post-Ride Stretch – Denis (6/11/24)
• 10 Min Pop Barre: Lower Body – Ally (10/18/23) — Sizzling Summer Barre Burn/Personal Streak
• 10 Min Strength Roll Call: Core – Ben (4/4/24) — Six Pack Pool Party

I kept my workout stack pretty short today and only met up with Tanja and Kristin for the Power Zone Endurance ride and finished with Barre and some core work.

Wednesday 

• 20 Min Full Body Strength: Week 3, Day 2 – Matty (8/21/23) — PUTV8
• Flash 15 – Jess (6/17/24)
• 10 Min Focus Flow: Core – Kristin (11/22/23) — Six Pack Pool Party/Personal Streak
• 10 Min Breathe In, Speak Up Meditation – Chelsea (6/19/23) — Summer and Self-Care
• 10 Min Warm Up Ride – Ben (6/12/23)
• 30 Min Power Zone Rock Ride – Ben (8/30/23) — PZ-W3R2
• 10 Min Cool Down Ride – Ben (1/2/23)

I started my morning with some strength training with Sherry and Lindsay and a focus flow with Kristin McGee, who announced today that she was leaving Peloton. She is such a great instructor and arguably one of the most popular ones, she’s definitely been my go-to for yoga, Pilates, and meditation. They say that she decided to leave after contract negotiations fell through (whatever that means). But what a huge loss for the Peloton community.

I met up with Tanja a little later for a power zone ride, which was also a milestone ride for us: 1400 rides on the bike that goes nowhere :) My sister and Kristin were also on the leaderboard and celebrated with us!

Thursday

• 20 Min Cher Barre – Ally (6/13/24) — Personal Streak
• 5 Min Pre-Run Warm Up – Becs (6/19/24)
• Team Wilpers Summer Run Challenge 2024 – W4R2
  • 45 Min Cher Run – Matty (5/31/19)
    • 10 Min Warm Up
    • 30 Min @ Easy Pace
    • 5 Min Cool Down
• 5 Min Post-Run Stretch – Becs (7/12/21) 

Today was “Cher Day”. I joined the #BCBabes for Ally’s Cher Barre Class and then headed out for my 45-minute Team Wilpers run with Matty (I realized that this class was actually from 2019 (!), not recently recorded). I also realized that I know quite a few Cher songs, but there are also many I don’t know. Haha. 

Friday

• 20 Min Min Full Body Strength: Week 3, Day 3 – Selena (8/21/23) — PUTV8
• 20 Min EDM Pilates – Kristin (6/21/24) — Personal Streak
• 20 Min Creating Space – Kirra (5/7/24) — Summer & Self-Care
• 10 Min 2010s Barre: Upper Body – Ally (7/12/23) — Sizzling Summer Barre Burn
• 5 Min Core Strength – Ben (5/20/24)

Since I had already gotten my running and PZ rides out of the way, I decided to take a bit of a cardio-rest day today and only joined the #BCBabes for Pump Up The Volume and Pilates in the morning and finished with a little bit of yoga and core work.

Saturday

• 5 Min Lower Body Strength Warm Up – Adrian (4/10/24)
• 5 Min Core for Runners – Becs (3/17/21)
• Teams Wilpers Summer Run Challenge – W4R3
  • 60 Min 90s Run – Susie (1/6/24)
    • 10 Min Warm up
    • 45 Min @ Easy Pace
    • 5 Min Cool Down
• 5 Min Cool Down Walk – Rebecca (6/13/24)
• 5 Min Arm Toning – Irène (2/9/21)
• 30 Min Bootcamp: Core – Callie (5/28/23) — Beachbody Bootcamp
• 5 Min Barre Cool Down – Ally (4/23/21)

Today was going to be hot (like triple-digits hot) and I got up early-ish (7:30 am) to get my endurance run out of the way. I also decided to do a 30-minute bootcamp when I got home because I am still trying to finish the bootcamp tracker for this month.

Sunday

• 5 Min Standing Core – Rebecca (6/4/24)
• 5 Min Barre: Core – Ally (1/10/24)
• 10 Min Barre: Lower Body – Ally (11/8/23) — Sizzling Summer Barre Burn
• 45 Min Power Zone Ride – Matt (1/6/21) — PZ-W3R3
• 10 Min Cool Down Ride – Sam (6/6/24)
• 5 Min Post-Ride Stretch – Bradley (5/23/24)
• 10 Min Breathwork – Denis (5/18/21) — Serenity Sunday

I went to a (free) “Injury Prevention” class at our local Fleet Feet store in the morning. Although I have not had any injuries from running in the ten years I’ve been pursuing running as a sport (either I must be doing something right, or I am just plain lucky), I thought it wouldn’t hurt to get some free information, and it was a very informative class by a local physical therapist.

I postponed my own workout to the early afternoon because I first wanted to watch others play sports (the European Championship soccer game between Germany and Switzerland took place at noon). I had another Power Zone ride on the schedule for today and while it was a sweaty workout with work in Zone 3, Sweet Spot, and Zone 4, it went pretty well. The dip in my graph during the last interval was due to a temporarily frozen Peloton screen (damn it ;)).

Current Challenges + Trackers:

I kept chipping away at my trackers this week. I completely blanked on a yoga, Barre, or Pilates class on Monday (that’s why you see the big, fat red X on the first tracker), but that can happen when you try to keep too many proverbial balls in the air. Haha. I am not sweating it.

Team Wilpers Summer Run Challenge 2024 – 8 weeks
“Seven Deadly Zones” Power Zone Challenge – 7 weeks
Pump Up The Volume 8 — PUTV8
Streaker365 Summer Sweat Fest
Streaker365 Beachbody Bootcamp
Streaker365 Six Pack Pool Party
Streaker365 Sizzling Summer Barre Burn
Streaker365 Summer Self-Care
Streaker365 June Personal Streak (Daily Yoga/Pilates/Barre)
Streaker365 Serenity Sunday (restorative yoga + meditation)

How was your week? Are you also sad to hear that Kristin McGee is leaving Peloton?