The Week in Workouts no. 2

Via DailyMile

I’m working my way back into regular runs, but am starting with low mileage and gradually increasing back to my base fitness.  I hope that this, along with religious stretching and strength training, foam rolling, and icing will keep my body injury free.  In any case, I had a lovely week of running.  I don’t have much to say about the Shred this week — I got it done, but Level 2 started to get a bit old, and I look forward to moving on to the next (and final) level.

A highlight of this week was discovering my new favorite massage therapist in Berlin: Jaina Hirai of Hirai Healing.  She did wonders today for my stiff shoulders and tight quadriceps, and I’m going to make deep tissue massages with her a monthly part of my workout routine.

But anyway, here are my workout details:

  • Monday: Rest.
  • Tuesday: 2-mile run + Shred (Day 17, Level 2).  Although I wasn’t feeling in tip-top shape health-wise, I felt great during this little run.  Took it nice and easy, with a 10:39 pace.
  • Wednesday: Rest.  This wasn’t planned, but completely necessary.
  • Thursday: 2-mile run + Shred (Day 18, Level 2).  About half-a-mile into this short run I was wondering why I felt so winded, and then discovered my legs were taking me faster than I originally planned!  But I went with it anyway, and had a speedy (for me) short run at a 9:41 pace.
  • Friday: Shred (Day 19, Level 2).
  • Saturday: Shred (Day 20, Level 2).
  • Sunday: 3-mile run.  I knew I was going to be short on time this morning, so I decided to run by time rather than distance.  The run ended up being 29 minutes, and the online mapping software I used calculated a 9:14 pace — which I’m skeptical of because it just didn’t feel that hard.  My normal mapping program was on the fritz, but when it’s back up, I plan to double check the distance.  In any case, it was nice to be on the run again. Update: Distance was actually 2.95 miles and pace was therefore 9:48.

That’s it for this week!  What have you been up to?

2 comments

  1. mandy says:

    I just started JM´s 30 Day Shred myself! (and am trying to get back to running, which I never seem to do in Germany, but love in the US…go figure). Re: JM´s dvds- I also recommend “extreme shed and shred” which is fun. Skip the 6 week 6 pack. It´s completely monotonous.

    • Thanks for stopping by and commenting, and offering tips on Jillian’s various videos. Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s worth it and what’s not. The great thing about the 30-Day Shred is that’s it’s only 25 minutes, and I don’t feel like it’s overkill to also do some running or something else on the same day. I’m in the middle of Level 3 now, and it’s definitely more challenging — but in a really good way, and I can see the difference it’s made.

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