Monday: rest day
Tuesday: 3 mile run (12:08 avg pace)
Wednesday: 3 mile run (11:16 avg pace)
Thursday: 3 mile run (11:28 avg pace)
Friday: rest day
Saturday: Warrior Dash
Sunday: planned to run 3-6 miles but turned into a rest day for the ankle

I noticed a little twinge in my right ankle on Thursday’s run. It wasn’t much, but it was there. I remembered that when I hurt my ankle a year ago, it started out as a little twinge that I ignored. I definitely didn’t want to make that mistake again, so I resolved to take it easy over the next week.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t a lot of time for rest over the weekend. It was pretty busy!

Friday was Jonathan’s birthday, so we went out to eat and then to see “Gone Girl” (book was better but movie was still pretty good).

The Warrior Dash was on Saturday. We were running with people from Jonathan’s work (some of whom don’t run), so I’m not entirely sure of my exact mileage. The course was 3.6 miles, but sometimes we would run ahead and then walk back to meet the group or stand and wait for them, so we could all help each other through. I learned (okay, I probably knew this already) that I may be too girly-girl for mud runs. I don’t even want to know what we were wading through.

After the Warrior Dash, we went to a bonfire at one of his coworker’s house. Mmm, s’mores!

I had planned to run on Sunday, but I could still feel the ankle whenever I walked, so I decided to rest it instead. We went out for breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and then I took a nice blueberry pancake induced nap. Later, we went out to play the Escape Game, which is awesome! Of course, I’ve always been into computer escape games, so doing one in real life was super fun.

Anyway, I’ve decided to lay off running until I at least cannot feel my ankle while walking. It doesn’t hurt (yet) but I don’t want to risk it turning into an actual injury and derailing my half training before it even starts.

Monday: rest day
Tuesday: 4 mile run (11:10 avg pace)
Wednesday: 3 mile run (10:25 avg pace)
Thursday: rest day
Friday: 3.7 mile run (10:39 avg pace)
Saturday: rest day
Sunday: 5.5 mile run (10:56 avg pace)

While I loved running barefoot on the beach while I was in Florida, the shoreline was very slanted and my left hip hurt for days after last Sunday’s run, despite trying to yoga the pain away. Thus the remainder of my Florida runs were done on the greenway that ran in front of the condo where we were staying. (Um, can I get a greenway that runs right past my front door?)

Post-run iced coffee! Sweaty!

I pretty much stayed dehydrated while we were there (sun + no set water-drinking schedule + alcohol) so I suffered from side stitches once I got past two miles or so on most of my runs. On Friday’s run, I decided to do some mild speed work. I did 3:1 intervals, but on the running intervals, I alternated between running them fast and running them easy. Thus, my paces for the 3 minute running intervals were as follows: 11:25, 9:18, 10:20, 8:31, 10:09, 8:42, 9:59, 9:14, 9:54, 8:57. Crazy how my “easy” ones kept getting faster.

Overall, it was a pretty speedy week. Thanks, vacation!

Monday: Pilates Fix and Total Body Cardio
Tuesday: 4 mile run (11:54 avg pace) and Upper Fix
Wednesday: Lower Fix and 10 Min Fix for Abs
Thursday: 3 mile run (10:31 avg pace) and Pilates Fix
Friday: Cardio Fix and Upper Fix
Saturday: rest day, precious rest day
Sunday: 3 mile run (11:52 avg pace)

The last week of 21 Day Fix you are supposed to double up your workouts (they tell you which ones to do together). I didn’t add a second DVD workout on days I ran (making me do three workouts those days), so it wasn’t too terrible. Just extra workouts on three days.

And then finally a rest day! Yay! Of course, half of it was spent in the car because we were driving to FLORIDA! My three miler on Sunday was done barefoot on the beach, which was super awesome.

Monday: Total Body Cardio
Tuesday: 3 mile run (12:11 avg pace) and Upper Fix
Wednesday: Lower Fix
Thursday: 3 mile run (12:05 avg pace) and Pilates Fix
Friday: Dirty 30
Saturday: 7 mile run (11:22 avg pace) and Cardio Fix
Sunday: 4.5 mile run (11:18 avg pace)/1.5 mile walk and Yoga Fix

I started the week out keeping my runs easy. Of course, I didn’t have much of a choice. After buying heavier weights this week for my 21 Day Fix workouts, I was way more sore than last week. I don’t think I could have gone faster if I’d tried. I at least tried to stay steady during these runs and not fluctuate too much in my pacing (which means no walking, though I did a couple times on Thursday).

I sped up a little on my longer runs on the weekend. Thanks, cold front! I ran the first half of Saturday’s run straight and then took walk breaks every 8-10 minutes or so throughout the second half. Longest distance since April!

I wasn’t going to do much on Sunday, but Heather messaged me and wanted to go out, so I joined her. We did 4.5-5 miles of fartleks (running around 9:00-10:00 pace most of the time) and then did a nice, long cool down walk afterwards.

Only one more week of these daily workouts, then I get a bit of a vacation–literally!

Monday: Franklin Classic 10k (12:05 avg pace) and Total Body Cardio
Tuesday: 3.5 miles on the treadmill (12:25 avg pace) and Upper Fix
Wednesday: Lower Fix
Thursday: 3 mile run (11:52 avg pace) and Pilates Fix
Friday: Cardio Fix
Saturday: 4.5 mile run (12:05 avg pace) and Dirty 30
Sunday: 3.7 mile recovery run (12:37 avg pace) and Yoga Fix

Nothing too crazy with this week’s runs. Trying to take it mostly easy since I’m doing all these additional workouts (I spent nearly 8 hours total working out this week!). Did some without walking, some with timed intervals, and even did a mile or so of strides on Saturday’s run.

I’ll get the Franklin Classic recap up soon; just waiting to see if more pics will be posted. 🙂