2025 Weekly Run Down 48/52 – Team Wilpers Holiday Challenge + Turkey Trot

This week’s stats:

Running: 18 mi
Cycling: 21.3 mi
Walking: 14.65 mi
Strength: 115 min
Yoga/Pilates/Barre: 85 min
Warm up/Stretching: 45 min
Meditation: 65 min

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

This is coming to you a day late, because I wanted to properly wrap up NaBloPoMo yesterday. I hope everybody had a great holiday week and lovely Thanksgiving. Ours was pretty low-key but I did run a Turkey Trot (10k) in the morning. It was cold (43F/8C) and damp here in California and I was glad to return home to a cozy house and warm fireplace!

I completed a bunch of fun Countdown to Turkey Burn classes on the Peloton platform and also started the Team Wilpers Holiday Run Challenge (I gotta keep up the run schedule!). All in all, a pretty decent week of workouts! Oh, and I hit my Streak Day #1800 this week – but who‘s counting?

Monday

• 10 Min Acceptance Meditation – Anna (10/3/23)
• 30 Min Glutes & Legs Strength – Tunde (5/20/23) — Grateful Gram
• 20 Min Power Zone Recovery Ride – Ben (11/16/24)
• 10 Min Focus Flow: For Riders – Denis (2/25/25) — Personal Streak
• 30 Days of Thanks & Planks – 2 min 

The best way to start a Monday is to tire out your glutes and legs with Tunde (lots of squats and lunges) for the Grateful Gram (see below). I squeezed in a 20-minute power zone recovery ride and a focus flow for riders, and then almost forgot my plank session, but didn’t.

Tuesday

• 10 Daily Mediation – Denis (11/23/25)
• 30 Min Countdown to TB Full Body Strength, Wk3D1 – Andy (11/24/25)
• 20 Min EDM Ride – Ben (8/7/23) — Grateful Gram
• 10 Min Focus Flow: Healthy Back – Chelsea (11/23/25) — Personal Streak

I started with this week’s Countdown to Turkey Burn Strength class and added the 20 minute EDM ride from the ‘Grateful Gram’ tracker for a little cardio. I then finished with a yoga flow for a healthy back. No plank session today – it was our rest day.)

Wednesday

• 10 Min Gratitude Meditation – Anna (11/25/25) — Focus Tracker
• 15 Min Focus Flow: Hips – Kirra (7/22/25) — Grateful Gram
• 30 Days of Thanks & Planks – 2:15 min
• 10 Min Countdown to TB Core Strength – Rad (11/25/25)
• 15 Min Countdown to TB Mobility – Andy (11/4/25)

I was so happy this morning when Rachel joined me in Kirra’s Yoga Class. What a wonderful surprise to see her on the LB (leaderboard)! I completed my plank session (core’s on fire, people!) and then finished with a bit of (more) Countdown to Turkey Burn core strength and mobility. 

Thursday

• 5 Min Gratitude Meditation – Anna (8/26/25) — Grateful Gram 
• 5 Min Pre-Run Warm Up – Rebecca (7/17/24)
• 20 Min Rock Run – Jon 10/21/25)
• Team Wilpers Holiday Run Challenge W1R1 | 20 Min Distance Test
  • 45 Min Turkey Burn Fun Run – Matt (11/22/18)
  • 15 Min 80s Run – Matt (8/5/25)
• 30 Min 80s Walk – Jon (10/8/24)
• 30 Days of Thanks & Planks – 2:15 min
• 10 Min Restorative – Anna (9/23/25) — Personal Streak 

I had signed up for the local Turkey Trot and I ran the 10k this morning. Since I had slacked this week on getting startet with the Team Wilpers Holiday Challenge, I decided to run the 20 Minute Distance Test during the Turkey Trot. Well, not my best idea (there were so many people and a lot of swerving) and I could have probably been a little faster if I had done the test on a different day, but what’s done is done. Also, disregard the graph. My Garmin died during the race (see the dip), I was able to revive it (it had to do with the cold temps), so very little of this graph is accurate. Haha.

Friday

• 10 Min Gratitude Gathering Meditation – Chelsea (11/27/24)
• 5 Min Warm Up Ride – Ben (10/20/25)
• 30 Min Countdown to TB Ride, Wk4D2 – Tunde (11/25/25)
• 10 Min Full Body Stretch – Andy (8/31/25) — Grateful Gram
• 30 Days of Thanks & Planks – 2:30 min
• 10 Min Focus Flow: Hips – Denis (12/19/23) — Personal Streak 

It was Black Friday and I had errands to run (but no Black Friday shopping for me, just a regular grocery run! The stores were eerily empty!), so I postponed my workout until the afternoon. I opted for another Countdown to Turkey Burn Ride from earlier this week, a full body stretch for the ‘Grateful Gram’ and a bit of yoga.

Saturday

• 5 Min Morning Meditation – Anna (9/25/25)
• 5 Min Pre-Run Warm Up – Matt (5/14/25)
• Team Wilpers Holiday Challenge W1R2 | Progression Run
  • 30 Min Turkey Trot – Matt (11/26/25)
• 10 Min Focus Flow: For Runners – Denis (4/9/24)
• 30 Days of Thanks & Planks – 2:45 min

This was supposed to be a progression run, which the graph clearly shows it was not, but I am blaming this on my Garmin (again!) which crapped out on me halfway through the run. I was able to “revive” it again, but the stats were definitely off.

Sunday

• 5 Min Happiness Meditation – Anna (5/27/25)
• 45 Min The Feast: Full Body Strength – Multiple Instructors (11/27/25)
• Team Wilpers Holiday Challenge W1R3 | Long Run
  • 45 Min Outdoor Run Club – Susie (10/18/25)
• 10 Min Post-Meal Walk – Andy (3/3/25) — Grateful for Self Care
• 5 Min Post-Run Stretch – Andy (8/6/25)
• 20 Min Restorative Yoga – Chelsea (6/12/22) — Serenity Sunday
• 10 Min Gratitude Meditation – Kirra (11/23/21) — Serenity Sunday
• 30 Days of Thanks & Planks – 3 min

I met up with Lindsay and Sherry this morning to close out the Countdown to Turkey Burn Collection with The Feast – a 45-minute Full Body Strength Class with six of the Peloton instructors. It was fun and entertaining but also very loud and busy with so many people in the room! Haha. Unfortunately, I told Tanja the wrong time (dang!) otherwise she would have been part of the sweat fest too. Afterwards, I went for a 45-minute easy run to complete week 1 of the Team Wilpers Holiday Run Challenge. It was cold and damp outside, so I was glad to get back inside when I was done. I joined the Streakers365 crew for Serenity Sunday in the afternoon.

I actually have to admit that I did not finish the plank challenge yesterday. My lower body was beat after the strength class and long run and then I forgot about the plank until this morning. I did complete the 3 minutes today (yay!) but because I was really sore from yesterday, I was not particularly happy with my form (so I probably will repeat it in the next few days).

Current Challenges + Trackers:

I finished another ‘Grateful Gram‘ this week put together by my Peloton friend Britany. It was another great mix of classes and I particularly liked Andy’s Full Body Stretch and Tunde’s Glutes & Legs Class.

I also finished up the other November trackers from my Streakers365 group (I only missed one yoga class on my Personal Streak tracker.) I am super thankful to our admins, who always do such a wonderful job keeping us motivated and entertained. And don’t you love it when the last day of the month falls on a Sunday? It neatly wraps up the month :)

Streaker365 Focus Tracker: Meditation
Streaker365 Grateful for Self-Care
Streaker365 Grateful Gram
Streaker365 November Personal Streak (Daily Yoga)

Hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving week. Did you do a Turkey Trot?