Gotta start somewhere!
(Saturday, November 28th - Friday, December 4th)
Like to think of weeks as Monday through Sunday, but I’m most likely to blog regularly on Fridays or Saturdays so for the purposes of this blog, I’ll be covering Saturday through Friday.
This week, I’m going to comment on how I did on the process steps I’m focusing on this cycle.
Process Steps
Run and recover from my key workouts
- I “cheated” a bit and matched my Long Run on Friday November 27th (18mi w/ 4mi fast finish, the famous “Taco Bell” run to my plan.
- On Monday, I ran a virtual 6k cross country race, the final race in this year’s Stumptown Series, honestly the fact that Portland had a post-Collegiate cross country series was one of the things that attracted me to the town, the “race” went okay, I had the benefit of racing with my friend, Dan Lenski, but did find it challenging to push myself in the second half. I found I was pretty sore in the days following, no doubt in part because it was the first time I had worn spikes in nearly two years.
- On Wednesday, I did some 400s with the usual track crew. I was pretty sore warming up and struggled to mentally on the final reps of each set of three which were supposed to be a little faster than our Mile goal paces.
No mindless miles, consider strength or flexibility/mobility work instead and Grow enjoyment and desire to fuel and hydrate well, specifically, two servings of greens and eight glasses of water daily
- I felt more mindful all week beyond just my mileage and physical activity. I was more thoughtful about my diet and hydration and pretty successful on the greens goal. I’m going to track my hydration this week as I need to focus more on that.
Grow in disciplined seven hours of sleep daily
- I did okay on this, though I continue to wake up in the middle of the night.
Daily flexibility and mobility following runs
- This has been a joy to add, it is also a cue to work on my daily pushup challenge.
20-30min strength sessions twice per week, 20 pushups daily
- I just had one strength session on Friday. This week, I’m going to shoot for one session Monday and one on Friday!
How was your week?