Yesterday was good. Really good.
Alexi Pappas quoted what one of her running coaches said, “Whenever you’re chasing a big dream, you’re supposed to feel good a third of the time, okay a third of the time, and crappy or not great a third of the time, and if you feel roughly in those ratios, it means you are in fact chasing a dream. If you feel too good all the time, you’re not pushing yourself enough, and if you feel too fatigued, you might be burning out or having a mental-health challenge and need to reevaluate.”
This rule of thirds applies not only to my running but also to how I feel each month with my cycle, haha. 10 days I feel good, 10 days I feel okay, and 10 days I feel crappy;)
There was also a drop in temps which probably helped me to hit a PR (on my 161st time doing this segment;). We really wanted to get some pounding into our legs on the downhill to get ready for the St. George Marathon course and also the climbing to get back up to the top of the segment (hit PRs on the climbs back up, too, wahoo) to prepare for the uphills. We started our warm-up with a long climb and then went over to the start of the segment to start the workout. The mile splits were-> 5:40, 5:34, 5:26, 5:22, 5:16, 5:09! The best part of it was that I usually feel like I’m going to puke at the end of these, but yesterday, I felt like I could have done a few more. The training is working (and I’ll remember this workout when I have an awful workout in the next few weeks where I think I’ve lost every ounce of fitness I’d ever had… the drama in my brain is real).
Then it was home to get kids to school and to drink a fairlife and eat a breakfast burrito (Beck scored two quesadillas with nothing inside;)…
And then I did my double on the bike for 45 minutes with my friend Olivia. Does anyone else ever feel like the Peloton instructors are their real-life friends, too? I’m preferring the doubles with biking over doubles with running. I swear the bike helps me feel less sore now!
Followed by my current smoothie–> 6 oz greens (chard, spinach, kale), frozen berries, a frozen banana, 1/4 cup chia seeds (I know… I eat a lot of them to get in those Omega 3s), BCAAs and creatine. And a rice bowl about an hour later. Marathon training is so expensive between gear and alllllllll of the food needed to fuel everything.
We got out to the mountains for a bit:
Of course, we had to shop for decorations.
And soccer! Beck snuggled me the entire game… I don’t know what he wants but I’ll say yes to anything after that.
So far, they are undefeated!
Has anyone figured out how to get dinner on the table when you have games and you aren’t home until 8 pm?! So far, I’ve figured out ordering pizza on the way home and eating while we get our reading done.
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Do you feel like the rule of thirds applies to your running?
Smoothie lovers… what goes into yours?
Anyone had any Strava segment PRs or race PRs recently?
Those of you with games at night… What do you do for dinner?
