Birthday Week

It was my birthday week and if you’ve been reading my blog for long you know what that means – riding my bike the same number of miles as the years I’m turning and walking or running some variation on that number.

Last Saturday I rode 68 miles on my bike because the weather was perfect and I wouldn’t have time to do it any closer to my birthday. On Friday, my actual birthday, I enjoyed a 68-minute strength training session and a 6.8-mile walk.

Here I am a few months before my first birthday training for my upcoming 1-mile ride. 😉

 

Overview of the Week

Before getting into each day’s workouts, here’s an overview of my workouts from this past week. Scroll beyond the infographic for daily details…

 

Sunday

Walking: 5.11 miles
• Average pace: 16:53 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 188 feet
• Start time: 1:29 PM
• Location: neighborhood trails
• Weather: 68° and cloudy
• What I wore: capris, s/s shirt, and visor

After Saturday’s birthday ride, I didn’t set an alarm and slept in until 7:30! I awoke fresh and renewed, and it was all I could do not to hop on the spin bike for some multitasking blog work. With a walk scheduled for later in the day with my friend Betsy, I knew that would be plenty of exercise for the day.

 

Monday

Strength training: 1 hour of total body

Walking: .51 mile
• Average pace: 36:45 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 1:04 PM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 68° in the basement
• What I wore: capris and hoodie

I was up at 4:30 AM and by noon had done my own strength training session and trained six clients. Remind me why I don’t retire? Oh yeah, I love what I do!

Later while playing around with my new Garmin I decided to check out the “walk inside” feature (not treadmill walk) so while chatting briefly with my brother on the phone I recorded the laps I walked in our basement.

 

Tuesday

Cycling: 38 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin
• Average speed: 15.0 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 5:57 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 62° in the basement, 27° (feels like 11°) and clear outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

I multitasked on the bike while training a client and then stayed on to get in a few extra miles because my time available to ride would be limited for the remainder of the week. After my workout I celebrated my birthday over lunch early with three of my dear friends.

 

Wednesday

Strength training: 1 hour of total body

In addition to seeing clients, I had what is hopefully my final test from last spring’s bout with hydroureteronephrosis. Six months later my urologist wants to compare my current right kidney function with May’s results. If the test results come back with equal or better kidney function than May when the right was 11% slower than the left, I’m hopeful she will release me and this whole saga will all be behind me.

 

Thursday

Drive to Charlotte, North Carolina

Walking: 2.01 miles
• Average pace: 15:11 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 151 feet
• Start time: 4:34 PM
• Location: Pablo’s neighborhood streets
• Weather: 63° and cloudy
• What I wore: capris, s/s shirt, and visor

We drove to Charlotte, NC to spend the weekend with our youngest son and daughter-in-law and cheer on our son when he ran his first marathon! Once we’d arrived and visited for a bit, I headed out for a solo walk, then joined the fam for a ½-mile walk with Pablo.

No pictures from the walk, but Pablo was more than happy to pose for a picture before our walk.

 

Friday

Strength training: 68 minutes of total body

Walking: 6.8 miles
• Average pace: 14.57 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 428 feet
• Start time: 10:03 AM
• Location: Charlotte Greenway
• Weather: 54° (feels like 60°) and sunny, climbing to 63°
• What I wore: shorts, s/s shirt, and visor

For my 68th birthday I started the day with 68 minutes of strength training followed by a 6.8-mile walk. Once home from my walk, we rushed out to the Charlotte Marathon Expo for packet pickup where we ended up walking a lot farther than I expected – my poor little legs got tired! A birthday nap was in order, followed by poster making, dinner, and early to bed to get plenty of sleep for our son’s big day.

 

Saturday

Walking: 5.28 miles
• Average pace: 48.09 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 381 feet
• Start time: 8:44 AM
• Location: Charlotte, NC
• Weather: 45° and sunny, climbing to 67°
• What I wore: capris, s/s shirt, hoodie and visor

Either I accidentally turned on my Garmin, or it has the feature that when I started walking it detected a workout and turned itself on (I need to look into that); but whatever the case, it recorded me walking from point to point to cheer on our son during his marathon. I noticed it was recording when it buzzed to ask if I wanted to continue my walk or stop it while we were stopped waiting for our son to run by. I just kept hitting the button to keep going until after we got back to the parking garage after his race. It didn’t record the early part of the race before we walked to see him at mile 1 – it started somewhere between there and the next viewing point.

Our son was thrilled to complete his first marathon and can now join the ranks of his parents, wife, and brother in calling himself a marathoner. When asked, he said he thinks he’d like to run another one. 🙂

 

With all that walking I earned the Garmin November Walking badge.

 

Last Week’s Blog Posts

In case you skipped checking in on my blog this past weeks, here’s what you missed…

 

Questions:
  • • What’s your favorite way to celebrate your birthday? ~ I love spending time with my family, and of course doing fun workouts that play on the number of years I’m turning.
  • • Have you spectated a marathon? ~ This was my first time spectating anything longer than a 5K.
  • • Which workout did you enjoy most this past week? ~ I thoroughly enjoyed my birthday walk!

 

And that’s my rundown… Have a great week!

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I’m linking up with Deborah at Confessions of a Mother Runner and Kim from Running on the Fly for their Weekly Run Down. Be sure to check out not only the hosts’ posts, but those of the other great bloggers joining in on the fun!

 

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