Pushing to the Limits

This week I decided to skip days of rest and just go full throttle. I am nicely surprised what I accomplished and feeling great afterwards.

I ran 2 miles on Monday.

Biked, on a stationary bike, 18 miles on Tuesday.

Ran 9 miles (3 miles on a hilly course in a friend's neighborhood and the last 6 at a park with many hills) on Wednesday.

Ran 2 miles and then did a high intensity hour long strength training session.

Ran one mile with a 5 minute warm up (3 mph), ran at 6 mph for 500 meters, and then cool down for 5 minutes at 3 mph plus Pilates with a body band on Friday.

Today, Saturday, I ran 6 miles in my friend's neighborhood. Actually ran into them and they rode their bikes as I finished my 6 miles. Also, I ran about 4 miles straight with my old record being only 3 miles.

This 20 mile week did not include 29 hours of work at retail, 4 hours subbing, and 5 hours babysitting.

I hope this training week will help me through this upcoming month with my first race, a 5k will occur on the 28th of Feb. and the last race, a 5k will occur on the 27th of March. In the middle of those two I have a 10k race and Half Marathon.
I hope I can hold out and feel strong as I did this week.