10: 2024 Weekly Run Down 45/52 – Work Travel and a (Test) Race

This week’s stats:

Running: 31.4 mi
Strength: 30 min
Yoga/Pilates/Barre: 50 min
Warm up/Stretching: 30 min
Meditation: 55 min

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

I was gone on a work trip from Tuesday to Friday this week and I was about to ask my coach again to rearrange my training plan to accommodate my work commitments but realized that it would be futile as I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get my workouts in while I was away. I knew we would have long days with evening commitments. The hotel (Inn) that we were staying at also didn’t have a gym, so I knew it would be unlikely for me to be able to do any runs.

Since I have been very disciplined with my training execution so far, I just rolled with it and hoped that skipping a few workout sessions would not negatively affect me. In fact, I hoped that taking a few rest days would maybe even be good for me before my 20-miler training race that was happening on Sunday. (Spoiler alert: it was!)

Monday

• 30 Min Flow and Let Go – Aditi (10/26/23) — Self-Gratitude/Personal Streak
• 15 Min Sleep Meditation – Kristin (3/15/24) 

Rest days are for yoga flows and meditation!

Tuesday

• 5 Min Pre-Run Warm Up – Rebecca (7/17/24)
• 55 Min Easy Run
  • 10 Min Pre-Run Warm Up – Matt (5/21/19) — Road to 26.2
  • 45 Min Tempo Run – Matt (6/5/19) — Road to 26.2
• 30 Min Strength for Runners – Rebecca (9/23/22) — Road to 26.2

I completed 6 easy miles and a 30-minute strength training in the morning before getting ready for my work trip. I picked up a vehicle from work and then was on my way up to Oregon for my work conference.

Wednesday

• 10 Min Gratitude Meditation – Anna (10/16/24) — Self-Gratitude
• 40 Min Just Walk: Outdoor

I started my day with a meditation session, met up with my colleague and then we walked to the location of the conference we were attending. The location was about a mile away, but we took a little bit of a detour to get coffee.

Thursday

• 10 Min Gratitude Meditation – Kristin (12/13/23) — Self-Gratitude
• 17 Min Just Walk: Outdoor

Meditation and a short walk were all the movements I was going to get in today because we had dinner plans with the other attendees in the evening.

Friday

• 10 Min Gratitude Meditation – Ross (11/21/23) — Self-Gratitude
• 30 Min Just Walk: Outdoor
• 75 Min Just Walk: Outdoor

I started my day with another meditation. Today was our “field trip” day, so we did quite a bit of walking at two different sites that we visited. In the early afternoon, I got in the car to make the 5-hour drive back to Sacramento.

Saturday

• 5 Min Warm Up
• 45 Min 80s Run – Susie (10/8/24)
• 5 Min Stretch

I felt a little uneasy about the fact that I skipped three training sessions from my training plan this week. I went out for a 45-minute shakeout run before my race on Sunday to test my legs. They felt pretty good and that made me feel better.

Sunday

• 10 Min Warm Up
• 20-mile run Run the Parkway (Test Race)
  • 90 Min Rock Run – Susie (9/21/23)
  • 90 Min 2010s Run – Mariana (5/2/24)
• 5 Min Stretch
• 20 Min Restorative Yoga – Kirra (9/13/21) — Serenity Sunday
• 10 Min Gratitude Meditation – Ross (6/25/23) — Serenity Sunday

Today was the “Run the Parkway 20-miler”, the Official Training Run of the CIM (California International Marathon). The pacers were going to run the full 20-mile distance at the same pace as they would run the marathon at CIM, so we were able to practice our goal pace. I am going to write a separate recap for this race, but I do want to say that this test race went great for me and I exceeded my pace expectations! I was so stoked!

Current Challenges + Trackers:

This week was tough on the tracker front. I managed to fill my gratitude jar with some more instructors, but I neglected my personal (yoga) tracker. I just didn’t have much time for anything when I was traveling for work. Oh well, I’ll pick it up again next week.

Peloton Road to 26.2 Program
Streaker365 November Gratitude Jar
Streaker365 November Self Gratitude
Streaker365 Fit Before Feast November Bootcamp
Streaker365 November Personal Streak (Daily Yoga)
Streaker365 Serenity Sunday (restorative yoga + meditation)

How was your week?

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