Lämmchen's Workout Thread

[Lamb]

My legs are feeling kind of sore after all the walking/hiking I've been doing. I might just do my indoor steps to ease up on the stress.

 

[tango]

The last few days have been too cold or windy to run so I walked my regular loop. Today my suggested workout was VO2 max intervals but I didn't feel like doing that (truth be told I didn't feel like running at all today) so I made an effort to keep my speed down. I've been struggling with that lately, but today was a much slower run than my recent efforts, even if not as slow as I'd aimed for. It's surprisingly difficult to run slowly.

 

[Lamb]

I see that next week is going to be 60s F in my area! I can't wait to go hiking as much as I can.

 

[tango]

I did another slow run today. I'm getting better at running slowly although it still feels like a constant battle against the urge to increase the pace. One newly acquired issue is that I've developed a desire to run hard at the hills to get them over with, but that's not a good way to keep my heart rate under control. I got another 10k and change in, and didn't die of boredom which was a bonus.

 

[Lamb]

I walked two miles on the paved trail at the park yesterday. When I started, it was cloudy, windy and cold and then at the last half mile, it got sunny and hot!

 

[tango]

Yesterday I did a walk because we had a friend over and ended up having a late lunch, and I didn't have time to let lunch digest before running because we also had a dinner invitation. Today and tomorrow will probably also be walks because we're expecting gale force winds, and I really don't care much for running into sustained 20-30mph winds when gusts are higher still.

 

[Lamb]

No walk for me today. I seem to have caught my husband's cold. My version is a lot weaker than his, so that's good and I just chose to do nothing and feel really good this evening now.

 

[tango]

I think I've come down with much the same thing. I thought it was just a bit of sinus trouble but wasn't feeling great yesterday and still not feeling great. Yesterday I bundled up and dragged myself around enough of my walk to get 10,000 steps - I cut it short because I didn't need the full distance, thanks to doing some other stuff during the day.

Today I don't have the other stuff to do and it's still very windy so I'll probably be doing another walk bundled up. Hopefully whatever this is will shift so I can run again once the wind fades.

 

[Lamb]

I think I've come down with much the same thing. I thought it was just a bit of sinus trouble but wasn't feeling great yesterday and still not feeling great. Yesterday I bundled up and dragged myself around enough of my walk to get 10,000 steps - I cut it short because I didn't need the full distance, thanks to doing some other stuff during the day.

Today I don't have the other stuff to do and it's still very windy so I'll probably be doing another walk bundled up. Hopefully whatever this is will shift so I can run again once the wind fades.

I've been in bed mostly and woke up today and want to go back to bed. The Mucinex and sinus problems make me so sleepy. At least it's not a bad cold this time, so I'll just end the Mucinex for now.

 

[tango]

Yesterday I could tell I've mostly kicked whatever this is because the cold wind chilled me slightly on the outside but didn't leave me feeling chilled to the bone. I still have stuffy sinuses but it's moved past the phase of being sick with it and into the phase of being sick of it. At this point it's just an annoyance having a stuffed up nose.