New Routines

Monday

2 mi pup run

Morning run with Ivy was chilly and lovely 😍

1 mi pup walk

Midday walk just to stretch the legs while working remote.

Tuesday

6.3 mi @ 8:18/mi

10k Tuesday with the USC Upstate loop, and threw in a few miles in the middle of tempo work on a hilly section. Whew! Spicy but felt good. 

Wednesday

30# pup ruck 2.1 miles

Took pup out for a nice long ruck walk at lunch, explored some neighborhood roads and got in a nice loop with the 30# pack.

Thursday

5 miles with 8x hill sprint repeats

Decided to get a little aggressive with a workout today... headed over to the hill leading into USC Upstate and did 8x sprints trying to keep a hard but repeatable effort and going all-out on the last one to try to be the first lap time. Success!

Each lap was about 60 feet of elevation

Friday

1.6 mi pup run

Just a short run with Ivy after school drop-off.

Saturday

1.8 mi kiddo + pup run

Wanted to run more but neither child was cooperating. 😂

Sunday

8 mi @ 9:30/mi

Hilly loop in the foothills of Paris Mtn. Climbed nearly 1000 ft through this run! Definitely felt it but the weather was absolutely perfection. 

2 mi walk

Was in Charlotte for the afternoon with the family and took a walk in Independence Park with Mom. So pretty!

Too many office days

Weird week this week being in the office at least part of every single day. I do not know how I used to go to the office 5 days a week! 😵

Monday

1.6 mi ruck 30#

Wanted to do a longer ruck for Vet's day but only had enough time to squeeze in about 30 mins at lunch while at the office.

Tuesday

1.6 mi pup walk

Worked remote for a few hours in the morning since I didn't have in-person meetings. Morning walk with pupper after some cute firetruck howls in the car.

1 mi Wellness Walk

Headed into the office late morning and joined the corporate wellness walk lead by our CFO.

6.3 mi @ 9:53/mi avg 

Ran with the Rockers Run Club group after work. Took it nice and easy, enjoyed chatting with everyone!

Wednesday

nada

Thursday

30 min strength sesh

Friday

7.07 mi @ 9:37/mi

Early Friday long run was a challenge due to a late work dinner the night before but happy to log some good easy miles.

Saturday

2 mi warm-up + 3.1 mi @ 7:12/mi Zoom through the Zoo 5k

Warm-up miles easy on the trail followed by a good but not great 5k race. Felt really strong during the race but just didn't quite have the speed to push a sub-22 time (my half-hearted goal for the race). Still happy with the race overall and managed a 1st AG finish!

Sunday

a few walks

No real workouts just some walks here and there with kiddo and pup. 

Fall running

Monday

2 mi run/walk with pup & D

Midday took the kiddo and pup out to the swamp rabbit trail behind Furman to do our first official training run together for the Tacky Sweater 5k coming up in December. D has said he wanted to run with me, so I signed us up last week and we went for a run today while he was off from school. Ran 1 mile, walked a bit, ran a half mile, walked some more, then finished out 2 miles. He did great!

Tuesday

6.34 mi @ 8:24/mi 

10k Tuesday in the rain at lunch... ran the hills over in USC Upstate campus but felt surprisingly good with a little bit of speediness!

Wednesday

2.2 mi pup run + 2.2 mi pup ruck 30#

Morning run with Ivy along the foggy Swamp Rabbit Trail north of TR. 

Took her out for a lunch walk while I rucked with 30# and covered another ~2+ miles. 

Thursday

8.1 mi @ 9:16/mi 

Post run jump pic

Met up with a couple of ladies for some early miles around downtown Greenville. Haven't done long-ish mid-week miles in quite some time, so it felt amazing to knock out 8 before work! Was pretty tried by the end of the day though (that 4:20 a.m. alarm is 😴). Still really happy with this one especially considering I got hit hard with some allergies Wednesday afternoon and was not feeling 100%.

Friday

2.5 mi pup ruck 30#

Rucked around the 'hood with the pup and kept in the extra weight. Gonna try to keep it at 30# for now!

Saturday

9 mi @ 10:11/mi pace

Decided on a Paris Mtn Altamont Rd climb from the house this morning and man what a lovely fall-ish day. Breeze, leaves rustling all along the road, just perfect.

Sunrise

Sunday

rest

No activities but lots of movement. Tired from the weekend and a rainy drizzly day.

Halloween week, hello November!

Monday

2 mi pup walk

Finally got some movement in the legs after sitting most of the day... actually felt good to move them but definitely sore and tired from the 100k+ weekend!

Tuesday

6.22 mi @ 10:03/mi 10kTuesday

Ran solo at Furman in the early hours. Had a bit of a GI distress issue and sought out an un-padlocked port-a-john during the first half of the run. Much happier second half of the run. 😄

Salvation!

Pretty belltower

Wednesday

1.6 mi evening pup walk

Thursday

1 mi trick-or-treating walk

Friday

3.17 mi @ 10:25/mi avg

Ran a 5k with Ivy this morning! She started to be stubborn in the first half mile or so, but I was determined to do at least 2 miles with her so she finally got the message and kept moving. Once we got going, she did great and trotted along happily for a little over 3 miles! Proud of her!

Saturday

9.5 mi @ 8:26/mi avg

Started with the Unity Park crew and planned to run their "warm-up" miles before turning back... ended up with more of a tempo pace for me than warm-up, but it felt good to clock miles with the group!

4 mi 20# ruck

After the run, met up with the Swamp Fox Ruck Club for what was planned as a 5k ruck but ended up doing a little extra to get 4 miles. Also earned my ruck club patch today! Excited to see this group grow!

Sunday

rest