Christmas Celebrations

Our family is in the middle of Christmas festivities this weekend. After celebrating Christmas Eve with local family before church, the out-of-town kids arrived on Friday. Tonight is book night, an annual event where our family goes out to dinner first and then hits up the book store so everyone picks out books as part 2 of their Christmas presents from my husband and me. Tomorrow we’ll pretend it’s Christmas Day with brunch, our gift exchange, and a wonderful homemade Italian dinner (a variation of my husband’s grandmother’s braciola recipe).

 

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

Cycling: 28 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin
• Average speed: 16.1 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 9:32 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 66° in the basement, 42° (feels like 33°) and cloudy outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

Core strength: 15 minutes (Peloton Emma Lovewell)

After a fun party the night before and not getting to bed until after midnight, I slept in until almost 8:30 AM. Who am I? Once up, I hopped on my trusty spin bike for some multi-tasking miles followed by a Peloton core strength class.

 

Monday

Strength training: 1 hour of total body

Core strength: 5 minutes (Peloton Emma Lovewell)

Walking: 4 miles
• Average pace: 15:42 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 9:54 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 64° in the basement, 32° (feels like 39°) and sunny outside
• What I wore: shorts and tank top

When a client changed from in-person to virtual at the last minute, I hopped on my treadmill with her workout in hand and trained her while walking. I do love multi-tasking, especially during these busy days just before Christmas.

 

Tuesday

Cycling: 22 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin
• Average speed: 16.? MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 6:28 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 63° in the basement, 35° and raining outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and tank top

Core strength: 10 minutes (Peloton Emma Lovewell)

Once again I multi-tasked by spinning while training a client. Once our hour was up, I absent-mindedly stayed on the bike because I’d started proofing a post for future publishing – I removed my laptop and added the deely boppers for the picture.

 

Wednesday

Strength training: 1 hour of total body

Core strength: 10 minutes (Peloton Emma Lovewell)

Walking: 3.12 miles
• Average pace: 14:57 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 145 feet
• Start time: 8:20 AM
• Location: neighborhood circle
• Weather: 42° (feels like 36°) and sunny, climbing to 45° (feels like 40°)
• What I wore: capris, l/s shirt, puffer jacket, knit hat, and mittens over gloves

I started the day early with a strength training session followed by seeing two clients before heading out for my walk. I spent much of the rest of the day cooking and entertaining family before going to the 6 PM Christmas Eve mass. It was almost bedtime before I remembered that I hadn’t done my Peloton core strength workout so I quickly took care of that before collapsing into bed.

 

Thursday

Cycling: 8.02 miles (Peloton Camila Ramón Christmas Ride)
• Bike: Peloton Bike+
• Average speed: 15.9 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 8:56 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 66° in the basement, 43° (feels like 36°) and partly cloudy outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

Core strength: 5 minutes (Peloton Emma Lovewell)

I’d set my alarm for 8 AM, and surprisingly, I slept until it woke me up. Even though it was Christmas – a very quiet day for my husband and me – I started the day with a Peloton ride and core workout.

 

Friday

Strength training: 1 hour of total body

Core strength: 10 minutes (Peloton Emma Lovewell)

Walking: 4 miles
• Average pace: 15:43 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 8:28 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 63° in the basement, 30° and cloudy outside
• What I wore: capris and s/s shirt

I’d set my alarm for 7 AM, but woke up at 5:26, couldn’t go back to sleep, so I just got up and did some things around the house before hopping on my treadmill. Because Christmas fell on a Thursday, Kim and I joined forces for our weekly virtual cardio workout a day later than usual. I had the added bonus of having my favorite guy work out out on the Peloton next to me near the end of my treadmill walk.

Collage credit: Kim

 

Pablo and his humans arrived just after 4 PM. Per usual we guessed which toy he’d grab from his bed first – this time he grabbed his goat! He doesn’t know it yet, but there’s a moose under the tree for him!

 

Saturday

Core strength: 10 minutes (Peloton Emma Lovewell)

Cycling: 7.52 miles (Peloton Hannah Frankson Low Impact Ride)
• Bike: Peloton Bike+
• Average speed: 14.9 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 6:51 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 62° in the basement, 36° and mostly cloudy outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

With family events scheduled for the day, I got up early to fit in my workouts before anyone else wanted to use the Peloton. We’re a family who enjoys working out, and everyone makes use of the basement gym when visiting.

Once home from our family gathering, I stayed dressed up until time for 5:3o mass, came home from church and enjoyed leftover appetizer type foods for dinner.

 

Garmin Badges Earned

I earned five Garmin badges during the week…

 

Questions:
  • • If you celebrate Christmas, did you stay home or travel? ~ This was our first year of not traveling to the farm either for Christmas Day or a few days before or after to celebrate with my parents/later just with my mom.
  • • Do you have plans for New Year’s Eve? ~ We haven’t made any plans yet, but most likely we’ll have a quiet evening at home.
  • • Which workout did you enjoy most this past week? ~ I really enjoyed my Christmas Day Peloton ride. I also had a great treadmill walk on Friday with Kim keeping me company.

 

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