Half Marathon Training: Week Seven

MONDAY 1/23
The plan: Strengthen & stretch
What happened: “Krav Maga.” It’s in quotes because it’s a combo krav maga/women’s self defense/general fitness class, which means that none of those goals REALLY gets effectively accomplished. But I did enough to work up a sweat and definitely got a bit of strengthening out of it.

TUESDAY 1/24
The plan: 4.5 mile run, + yoga
What happened: 
 
+ yoga. 

WEDNESDAY 1/25
The plan: Cross training
What happened: Walked 4 miles from work to Michael’s Arts & Crafts to get craft supplies.
 

THURSDAY 1/26
The plan: 5 mile run
What happened: Nothing. I didn’t get up in time to run, and after work it was cold and raining. I decided that even though it was still going to be cold and raining in the morning, I’d rather run in the cold/rain/light than cold/rain/darkness.

FRIDAY 1/27
The plan: Rest day.
What happened: Made up for Thursday’s missed run. Cut my mileage in half but at least got out there.

SATURDAY 1/28
The plan: Cross training 
What happened: Post-it workout and a long walk.
 

SUNDAY 1/29
The plan: 8 mile run
What happened: Happy run!
 

Last week’s goals recap:

• Don’t skip any workouts. Done! I swapped some days, but it happened.
• Do the post-it workout three times, even if it’s in addition to something else. Fail. Did it once.
• Do at least one of my runs at a faster pace than all of last week’s runs. Done! Every run was faster. Hooray!

This week’s goals:

• Post-it workout x3
• Don’t skip any workouts
• Score a goal at soccer
• PR my 10k time on Saturday
• Replace one short run with hill repeats and/or speedwork

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