Tuesday’s, Thursday’s, and Saturday’s are my run days. I have always struggled with running longer distances. To me longer distances are anything more than a 1/2 mile. Today I ran 3.27 miles. I try to get at least 3 miles and sometimes run 6 or 7 miles on Saturday.
I ran one half marathon in my life and a handful of 5K’s. I would like to run another half marathon and I am thinking of targeting one early next year so will start training more heavily for that in December.
After my run today I completed a series of leg stretches. I learned from a running coach a long time ago to not perform cold stretched before a run. A mistake I use to make. I basically do a walk to run warm up and sometimes will do 500 meters on the rower to warm up. After my leg stretches, I did one round of 100 rep triceps press followed by 60 reps of hammer curl. Both are done with 15 pounds dumbbells. I then finished with 66 reps of sit ups in 2 minutes.
Later in the day I walked 1.08 miles at a decent pace just to get some sun and take a break from work. My total intensity minutes for the day is 108 per the Garmin watch which brings my weekly total to 377. The week starts on Monday. I am well over the 150 minute intensity goal for the week set by Garmin. Decent week so far and I will keep at it and pick it up tomorrow morning with a Pull day.