I Crashed The Web

I have two reasons to be excited about this week – first, we finished January and I had decent mileage and second, I did a group run! I rarely run with people, and it was nice to be social and get outside with fellow runners to kick off the Cleveland Marathon training cycle.  On a less exciting note, this week another wave of sickness made it through our house and forced me to take a day off. But I’m feeling all better now! 

Here are some January highlights:

Total running mileage: 122.88

Other activities: Some walks PLUS I did ab exercises 3-5 days/week every week!

Lowlights: Getting covid. It didn’t stop me from running, but slowed me down somewhat, and I am still feeling like I am recoverin some days. Also, the weather. We had plenty of cold, icy and snowy days. I ran outside 17 days, and inside 14 days.

And then this week looked like this:

Sunday: 4.12 rainy miles — I was planning on getting in a nice outdoor run, but woke up to pouring rain and upper thirties. I was determined not to have another indoor run, and luckily the rain turned to a drizzle eventually, and I made it outside for a few chilly (but not freezing), wet miles. 

Monday: 5 treadmill miles and ab workout — . I wanted to test out a non-DR ab workout and I was glad I did! I was sore the next day, but a good kind of sore. I hope I didn’t do more damage than good, but I needed to do something not DR-related. 

Tuesday: 4.6 treadmill miles and ab workout  –  It had snowed the night before, and then iced over a drop, so I decided to just run inside. I started with another ab video before getting on the dreadmill.

Wednesday – sick day – I took my first day off in more than a month on Wednesday. B was home on Tuesday with a stomach bug, and Tuesday night I started feeling sick – aches, chills and stomach pain. Thankfully I never got sick to my stomach, but I needed to take the day off.  

Thursday – 5.09 miles and ab workout – I woke up feeling alright and wanted to test it out with a run – I got in 5 miles and felt great! It was COLD out but I felt good to run after a day off. I also got in an 8 minute ab video after the run.

Friday –  4 treadmill miles –   My plans for a longer run and ab workout got derailed by another sick kiddo and toddler up earlier than usual. At least I was able to get in a short-ish run to start my day. It was “feels like 3” when I woke up and I couldn’t bring myself out the door. 

Saturday:  4.78 miles at the Cleveland Marathon kickoff run! It was so cold but so good to run with people and see some of my fellow Cleveland Marathon Ambassadors. I ran fast (for me) and loved running downtown, which I haven’t done in a while. 

We had a nice selection of ambassadors there – here we are all bundled up:

Total mileage:  27.01 mi

Questions for you:

• Do you do any group runs?
• Did it get freezing where you are too this week/weekend?

I am linking up with Deborah and Kim for the Weekly Run Down.