Should we call it a comeback?

Week-Beginning Thoughts:

Whoops, it's Sunday...

Monday
Scheduled: yoga
Did: 10min AM yoga

Tuesday
Scheduled: 10KTuesday
Did: 6.3mi @ 9:55/mi avg
Sleeping well and finally starting to feel GOOD- not just OK, but GOOD.  

Wednesday

Scheduled: 5K and lifting

Did: 45min walk, 30min lift, 15min yoga

Swapped rest days and enjoyed a brisk walk, YouTube LIIFT video, and some yoga while dealing with Day 4 of a broken fridge/freezer

Thursday

Scheduled: 4-5mi

Did: 2mi WU, 6x400/400, CD = 5.9mi @ 9:41/mi avg

Wasn't planning on a full workout, but TP had 8x400, so I did a handful of them. Enjoyed running faster again: 2:09, 2:07, 2:08, 2:08, 2:04, 1:58

Friday

Scheduled: nada

Did: 2x1.4ish mi = 2.84mi @ 9:29/mi avg

Ran to and from an event today with my husband (hence the faster than usual pace). :) 

Saturday

Scheduled: 10-13.1mi easy

Did: 3.12mi on treadmill @ 9:50/mi avg

Thunderstorms between 5-7am had our Saturday crew texting at 4:30am about whether to chance it or not. We opted against starting a run we probably couldn't finish, and bumped to tomorrow intsead. Feeling like a bum, I got on the 'mill and knocked out a 5K while my kids played. 

Sunday

Scheduled: easy 5K, yoga

Did: 13.4mi @ 9:57/mi avg

Oh, this run felt SO good. Temps in the high 50s, brisk weather, and just SO much joy. I haven't had a run that felt this great in awhile-- not just weather, but physically so good. Grateful. 

Total Weekly Mileage: 31.5

Week-ending Thoughts:

• Week 2 on the Noom wagon, and while my weight is still kinda more or less where it was, I'm noticing that I feel better. I'm sleeping SO much better for one, but also just ambiently feeling better. I'm really proud of the progress I've made. Keeping a green diet has NOT been easy without a fridge. I've had to make a lot of trips to the store and make deliberate choices every day to not just "order takeout" or "eat a PB&J" and tell myself 'it's my only option" since I'm fridge-less. Also super proud that, when we went out to ice cream as a family, I ended up giving my son half of mine because I realized I just wasn't hungry for it and was only going to finsih it out of habit, not hunger. Small wins.

Keep Showing Up.

 Week-Beginning Thoughts:

Keep showing up.

Monday
Scheduled: yoga
Did: 10min AM yoga, 4.5mi stroller walk
Had a doctor's appt for my voice loss/hoarseness where I weighed in 16lbs heavier than my "usual". While I know that about 5lbs of that was my heavy shoes and all the crap in my tote back, which was over my shoulder, it was still a WTF moment. Lots of emotions. Lots of anger. Lots of "this isn't fair". While I haven't been tracking everything I eat, I've been eating fairly well, certainly better than anyone else whose meals I see on a regular basis, and better than the average American.

It was incredibly discouraging to see that, even if I haven't "let myself go", all the feelings of my clothes getting tighter over the past few months wasn't just "in my head" or "period bloating", it's actually real, and I'm SO angry about it.

...so, I signed up for Noom, a weight-loss app that I knew some friends had had success with. And then cried. 

Tuesday
Scheduled: 10KTuesday
Did: 6.31mi @ 9:44/mi avg
Day 1 of Noom. Woke up, weighed in (a good 7lbs lighter than what I'd been at the doctor's, btw), and tracked the hell out of everything. I'm just angry that I "have to" do this if I want to be healthy. 

Wednesday

Scheduled: 5K and lifting

Did: 15min lifting, 3.2mi @ 10:04/mi avg
Did NOT want to get up and out on a "feels like 26 degrees" day, but remembered how shitty I felt with long COVID and my promise to myself to never skip a workout when I was physically able to workout.  

Thursday

Scheduled: 4-5mi

Did: 2mi WU, 4x800m/400m, CD = 5.67mi @ 9:21/mi avg

I'm enjoying the new routing of weighing myself each morning (to prove how much weight fluctuates day to day and get a "trend line" instead of a few random data points), and swapping out reading some short content Noom articles/motivation instead of scrolling social media. I'm NOT enjoying feeling like I'm depriving myself of things and trying to work on reframing that to be "I'm choosing to feel good in my body, because that's more important to me than ______". Still sucks. 

Didn't plan on speedwork, but TP had some work, so I opted in rather than just running mindless laps on the track.

4:28, 4:22, 4:18, 4:18

Friday

Scheduled: nada

Did: 30min treadmill walk

Didn't really have time to workout today. I enjoyed my one morning a week to wake up next to my husband and actually talk before our day started, worked, then got groceries and meal prepped. Noom's step tracker motivated me to get on the treadmill and walk a few miles to get around 9000 steps for the day while my family did other things in the same room. 

Saturday

Scheduled: 10-13.1mi easy

Did: 13.11mi @ 10:35/mi avg 

This was a victory lap for me. After getting COVID in April 2022 and suffering from long COVID for nearly 9 months after, there were so many times I didn't know if I'd be able to run again, especially not at the level I did pre-COVID. While I'm still not back to my pre-COVID fitness (in more ways than one), today marked a huge milestone in that slog back to "marathon mama".

My legs hurt during the run. My right foot (where I've been dealing with PF for over a month) ached a bit from time to time. It was 32 with 14mph winds that made it feel like 26 and my arms were cramping from the cold.  I planned a deceptively hilly route, unintentionally. I was much slower than my companions. 

But I did it. I ran a half marathon, something I hadn't done in over a year. So strange for something that used to be an "every weekend" occurrence to be so hard now, but that's just where I am right now... and it's a sign of progress. 

Sunday

Scheduled: easy 5K, yoga

Did: 3.12mi @ 10:13/mi avg, 15min yoga

This run felt sluggish and blergh, but I got it done.

Total Weekly Mileage: 31.4

Week-ending Thoughts:

• Slowly making it, and proud for completing a week "on the Noom wagon" :) 

An OK-ish Week

Week-Beginning Thoughts:

Keep showing up.

Monday
Scheduled: yoga
Did: 10min yoga, 40min lifting afternoon
Small dry cough overnight, but feeling much better. Did lifting on the back deck with my baby after work, followed by a picnic.  

Tuesday
Scheduled: 10KTuesday
Did: 6.31mi @ 9:46/mi avg
Woke up with soreness in my throat, and had a weird swollen feeilng in it after eating lunch outside. Allergies? 

Wednesday

Scheduled: 5K and lifting

Did: 3mi walk
Had a rough sleepless night and bailed on my AM run. Felt fatigued during the day and napped twice. Also had voice difficulty during a presentation today. Ugh. 

Thursday

Scheduled: 4-5mi

Did: nada

Bailed on my AM run and slept 9.5hrs instead. Still deep swollen throat feeling upon waking... ugh. 

Friday

Scheduled: nada

Did: 5.12mi @ 9:41/mi avg

Made up for Thursday's run today. Still had a swollen throat feeling in the AM. My GP said to go see an ENT since the throat stuff is lingering, so I guess that's on the docket for Monday... 

Saturday

Scheduled: 8-10mi easy

Did: 12.73mi @ 9:56/mi avg + 2mi walk

Slow and steady hilly ass run that I wanted SO badly to turn into a half marathon (my first in over a year)... but I had a misstep on a curb/island SO close to the end. My pinkie toe base really hurt after it impacted the curb, but we tried a lot of stepping on it, bending it, etc. at the site of the accident and it didn't seem broken. I walked the rest of hte way home, iced, and had no more troubles with it throughout the day. 

Sunday

Scheduled: easy 5K

Did: 20min yoga, 20min lifting

Well, I've got a nice, big bruise on my foot from yesterday and it's supposed to be heavy rain all day in the high 40s.... sounds like a great day to stay inside and let my foot rest up. 

Total Weekly Mileage: 24.2

Week-ending Thoughts:

• Slowly making it :) 

Non-Sick Week

Week-Beginning Thoughts:
My goals for this week are to keep showing up. I want to run T, W, Th, S, and S. Even if it's only a 5K, multiple days is more important to me than mileage this week.

Monday
Scheduled: rest
Did: 20min yoga
Got up and started my week with some relaxing yoga/meditation. It's always nice when I can find time for that. Still have hoarseness in my voice, but I can speak. 

Tuesday
Scheduled: 10KTuesday
Did: 6.23mi @ 10:05/mi avg
This felt harder than it should have. Blergh. Worked a 12 hour days afterwards.... 

Wednesday

Scheduled: 5K and lifting

Did: 15min AM lift, 5k with stroller @ 10:04/mi avg
I felt proud for getting up this morning to lift. I woke up without my alarm and got myself downstairs for some unguided chest/back dumbbell exercises. After work, I made use of my kids' offset schedules to take the little on a greenway stroller one before getting the older one. 

Thursday

Scheduled: 4-5mi

Did: 5.04mi @ 9:41/mi avg

Nice run with my TP. 

Friday

Scheduled: nada

Did: nada

I had hopes of getting in a 30min MBF session or a walk, but had too much to do at work/home. 

Saturday

Scheduled: 8-10mi easy

Did: 10.1mi @ 9:51/mi avg, SOA rehearsal

This run felt GREAT. Maybe it was listening to a marathon podcast yesterday, but I was IN my element. 

Sunday

Scheduled: easy 5K

Did: 3.11mi @ 10:25/mi avg

Did a fundraiser 5K today with my oldest and was SO SO SO SO proud of him running the full thing, including some intense hills, and beating his previous 5K PR by about 5 minutes. 

Total Weekly Mileage: 27.6

Week-ending Thoughts:

• This is the first week I've kinda felt like running self in a long time. Here's hoping it continues.