Ice Skating Made Me Realize…

5 Comments

Mon: Rest

Tues: 5 Rounds w/30lb bar: 8 Overhead shoulder press, 15 front squats, 10 thrusters, 5.75m easy 8:01/pace (ranged from 7:22-8:20)

Monday’s are my new rest days. Just thought i’d share. I only like worrying about coffee & training others on Mondays. It makes the day much more bearable. Tuesdays now, are a new beast. I’m finally on board with “Track Tuesdays” or as i’m going to call it “200s Tuesdays” since I’ve been doing 12 x 200s.  Today though, I ended up outside for more of an easy run. The wind and hills made it difficult to push or maintain any sort of pace, but I needed to get outside..turns out wind, hills and cold feel a lot easier than the treadmill lately. 8:01 easy pace?? I’ll take it. Track Tuesdays, are paying off :).

Also, I got a haircut.

20150129_125756

SO—A few weeks ago I went ice skating. No, i’m not bragging, i’m a terrible ice skater. There is a reason I run. Forward. In a straight line. On my feet. I’m also a little OCD when it comes to knowing distance/pace with any type of cross training i might come across. My poor Garmin probably thought i strapped it to a chicken with it’s head cut off (sorry to the vegetarian readers), but seriously, this is a screen shot of my Garmin from the 1 mile skate I did.

Screen Shot 2015-01-23 at 9.15.19 AM

I used this picture the other day, but I just had to share that it wasn’t a stock photo–it was legit mine. As I was skating dodging kiddos and their parents, teens and their selfies, and my own two left feet, I realized that I can totally do an Iron Man one day. If skating a mile takes me 25 solid minutes I can totally push through a triathlon. Science. Logic. Other smart words even though this concept is terrible. 

IMG_2053

I guess I assume since Skating isn’t a part of the Iron Man, I’ll be fine.

haha.

Last Week

Monday: Rest

Tuesday: 6.5m intervals (12 x 200s, 5 @ 5:39/pace, 5 @ 5:33/pace, 2 @ 5:27/pace)

Wednesday: 30min Kettlebell workout (5 rounds: 20 overhead swings, 20 off set weighted lunges, 10 tricep pushups)

Thursday: 4m easy 9:00/pace, 30 min core

Friday: 6 easy 8:45/pace, 20 min TRX Upper Body

Saturday: Rest

Sunday: 10m easy 8:30/pace

Total Miles: 26.5

Are you a practicing Track Tuesday-ian?

Author: She's Going the Distance

Runner!

5 thoughts on “Ice Skating Made Me Realize…

  1. I’m on the track every Tuesday. I love it!
    I’m a terrible ice skater!
    And…your hair looks great!

  2. Great haircut 🙂

    We went skating over Christmas break and it was awesome – first time in two years, couldn’t do last year because my wife shredded her (already bad) ankle rolling it on a walk. Ugh … that was fun! But skating went well – we had a blast! Doesn’t mean we’re any good – but it was fun! I do worry about my ankles when I skate – don’t want to do anything to mess with my running 🙂

    And yeah, still outside all winter. I don’t even bother with paces – I track my time and know my distances (mostly just my go-to 7.5 mile route when it is this cold!), and that is good enough. As I said on Instagram, there are enough other challenges out there!

    Looks like you had a great and varied week!

  3. Great hair! Love the screenshot of your skating as captured by Garmin. That’s hilarious.

Say anything

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s