Rubriik: Spordijutud

Workout Week 8.–14.07.2013

Published on by Margit ParteiLisa kommentaar

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts.

Monday was technically rest day so I just had an hour long walk with my dog.

Tuesday I did a regular 30 minute walk and then went running for an hour. It was a really good run until I was attacked by a big dog. I have been attacked previously so I was really really upset after that so the last kilometre of my run was a walk because I couldn’t run after the incident. I also lost my expensive headphones on the way somehow. Basically I was on my last kilometre and then I saw a big black dog jump over the fence and run toward me. I stopped and just stood there, not moving even my eyes. It went away, came back, went away, came back… Just barked at me, angry. I was so afraid it was going to jump in my face. Fortunately the owner eventually came and took the dog. He wasn’t even sorry! I screamed in his face pretty much. Not proud about that but I was shaking all over my body. Now I can’t run there anymore. So I had to look for another 7K lap. Finally I found one. I shoud start carrying pepper spray or something…

Wednesday had my regular walk and Zumba class. 

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday I was travelling and volunteering on the small island of Kihnu, far away from home. Thursday would have been restday anyways, I was exhausted when we finally got to the island after a day of travelling with 3 buses and a boat. Friday and Saturday I couldn’t work out because we had no time for that, however my working days were long, I had to walk quite the bit and stand on feet all day long. Sunday was travelling back home again and in the evening I went running on my new lap that is kind of boring but safer when it comes to dogs running around. Had really sore legs from working on previous days.

So in total I had only 3 work out days. That is way too little for me.

 

In total:

2 hours of walking (+ a lot on the island)

2 hours of running

1 hour of Zumba

 

Not a great week at all. Hopefully next week is better.

Workout Week 1.–7.07.2013

Published on by Margit ParteiLisa kommentaar

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts. 

This week was a little bit different because my Wednesday’s Zumba class was moved to Monday. Besides that I also did a regular 30 minute walk that day.

Tuesday was rest day because Saturday and Sunday had also been workout days. On Tuesday I did a regular half an hour walk and also some cycling because I had to go to the library and decided not to take the bus.

Wednesday was a day of bad decisions. I somehow saw that it was a gorgeous day outside and thought that the warm weather would be just fine for running. At midday. Bad decision! I have never been so wrong! The sun was HOT, there was strong wind, I had no water with me and no sunscreen on me. I killed myself that workout, was dehydrated and got tanlines from my top. I had to walk a lot and I hate walking on my runs. My heart rate didn’t go back to normal in hours. If it’s hot ans sunny and windy: no matter what Nike says (“Just do it!”)… Just don’t. Don’t. Wait for the evening hours. Later that day I also did a walk.

Thursday was a tough day also because I could feel the Wednesday’s bad decisions in my muscles and body. But I did a regular run without walking and a small walk in the night time.

Friday was rest day again. Did a walk and cycled to my nearest town and back.

Saturday was a great day for me because I completed my ultimate goal aka 10K run. Read about that here.

Sunday I didn’t feel like running and decided to take my bike and just cycle around my area for an hour. The weather was nice but it was really windy so my speed wasn’t that great, only about 16 km/h. But that is still really good for that kind of wind.

 

In total:

2,5 hours of walking

1 hour of Zumba

2 hours 10 minutes of cycling

3,5 hours of running

 

It was a good week. 🙂