This week was a little odd. After quite a heavy week training last week with lots of runs and strength work, this week I felt like I needed more rest.
It’s my 4th week of marathon training anyway, so is meant to be my ‘easy’ week, so I took advantage and had 4/7 as rest days!
By the end of Sunday I’ll probably have earned around 30,000 Nike fuel points, but as you can see from above I had a rather healthy amount of rest days: Mon, Wed, Sat, Sun.
Part of that was going to visit my Dad and deciding spending time with him was more important than running, along with travelling. You’ve got to get a balance sometimes I think and training shouldn’t be the be all and end all.
On Monday I took a good rest day after the long week, and on Wednesday I just felt like I needed it (so no gym in the morning or Metafit at night for me).
Anyway, rest is good, 😉 and here’s what I did on the days of the week:
Mon: Rest & Fast
Walk to and from work, food prep.
Tue: Lunchtime: 5k easy run, 32 mins
PM: 4.6M easy run Kaizen Run Club, with 2.3M run commute.
10M running in total.
Walk to work.
Wed: Rest
Walk from work
Thu: AM: 10M run before work. 🙂
30 min Kettlebell workout with Fiona
Walk to work (got soaked!!)
Fri: AM: Super 8s Full Body Strength Workout, 50 minutes.
Plus 22hr Fast
Sat: Rest
1.2M walk
Sun: Rest, Travel, Teach Swimming.
I’ll add the Garmin links and totals in later, bit although I didn’t do much this week, what I did do, I enjoyed. And it was still 3 runs (20 miles), 1 full body strength session and quite a few walks (around 5 miles). 🙂
January 2013 Summary
Here’s my Nike Fuel points summary for January:
My sickness on 7th, 8th & 9th jumps out, but apart from that I think I’ve had quite a good and active month. 🙂
A couple of long run days towards the end of the month got me lots of points, in fact, the other morning after my 10 mile run, I got my usual 4000 point target by 8am! I’ve taken rest where I’ve needed it (yellow days usually), and I ran a total 111.4 miles. 🙂
Wk6 Plan
I’ll do my lower strength workout at the start of the week so I safe my legs for my long run at the weekend:
Mon: AM: Super 8s Strength Lower
Fast, PM: Food Prep
Tue: 5k Lunchtime run
Kaizen Run Club: 5-7 miles (hills)
Wed: AM: Super 8s Strength Upper
PM: Metafit
Thu: Rest (or Run in AM) & Fast
Fri: AM: Super 8s Strength Pull Ups
Sat: Long Run 16M
Sun: Kaizen Run Club: 5-7 miles
Teaching Swimming
That should do. 🙂 I really want yo push it next week with the strength work. Bella free weights section is out of use so I might go back to the commonwealth arena next week. We’ll see.