The Little Chemist That Could: Building consistency

A little less flexibility with scheduling this week but still doing my best to stay consistent. Working also on getting better sleep to improve my recovery time. Going to record my nightly sleep score (per Garmin) to see how it correlates with my training feels.

Monday - 93 sleep score

40 min work gym

Mostly upper body and core with a good bit of leg stretching to help with the soreness from Conquer the Rock.

30 min run/walk

Went to the Eastside Run Club at the Beerded Cork (another new run club!) since I was in the office on a rare Monday, but ended up run/walking due to some extreme quad soreness. Movement helps but oof.

Tuesday - 82 sleep score

6.3 mi @ 9:35/mi XC loops

Crazy warm day on the XC course, but felt pretty good moving the legs and getting blood flowing through them. They felt less dead than Monday! Also got to run in my new trail shoes

Topo Ultraventure 4

Wednesday - 90 sleep score

19.1 mi @ 13.7 mph bike ride to lunch

Gorgeous weather and meeting a friend for lunch, so I biked from my apartment down to the Swamp Rabbit Cafe. About 9.5 miles each direction, the first part winding through the Paris Mountain foothills and finding my way to the Swamp Rabbit Trail. I had lots of options of how to get there, so I went different ways to and from. Was fun exploring roads nearby and I hope I can do more... also it's incredibly hilly!

Jersey matches the lunch spot!

2.4 mi baseball walks with pup

Thursday - 86 sleep score

nada

Ridiculous rain, work schedule & meetings, cancelled baseball game... all added up to a rest day. I suppose those are needed once in a while

Friday - 93 sleep score

1,050 yd swim

Made it back to the pool on a WFH Friday! I've found right after lunch is a good quiet time at the pool. Plenty of open lanes and a good way to get into the weekend. I did 100 yd warmup, 6x 150yd/60s rest, 50yd cooldown.

1 mi evening walk

Saturday - 87 sleeps core

13.14 mi @ 8:35/mi avg

"Kevin's Party Pace Half" was just that... 13 miles at someone else's party pace (definitely not mine!). I knew I would get dropped by this crew at some point, and I was proud that I held on for about 10 miles. The last mile dropped from an average 8:20-8:40 pace down to closer to 8:00 and I did one mile and said nope, not today. Dropped back from the group for the last 5k and was really happy to have finished. Enjoyed some leftover cinnamon rolls in my car afterwards. Super happy with this run overall, much faster than I thought I could do!