This week was a fairly typical week for me. Let's break it down.
Monday morning: Cycling class, 50 minutes. Covered 15.7 miles, legs didn't have much speed but those hills, gurl. I'm getting fitter.
Monday evening: Group personal training, 50 minutes. I lead a small group through a workout that's mostly circuit weight training with some cardio calisthenics mixed in. Not a lot of rest periods for ol' Clare.
Tuesday morning: I go to the Rec Center to bang out 90 minutes on the elliptical, but the network is down so I can't log into Netflix. Since my legs felt completely dead anyway, I decided to take a REST DAY, and this was no big loss. Went home and felt the lactic acid settling in for the long haul. Uh oh.
Wednesday morning: Hot yoga, 1 hour. Wednesday's instructor always kicks my ass!
Wednesday evening: Group personal training, 1 hour. Low weight, high reps. In that hour I probably did about 1000 reps. Appropriate, because "muscular endurance" seems to be one of the top two attributes I will need to finish my Spartan Beast (the other one being "cardio endurance").
Thursday morning: Running (and a bit of walking) 7.4 miles at my favorite lake, and doing a total of 24 passes of monkey bars along the way. This took me just under 1.5 hours and was extremely tiring. My run fitness is improving, thankfully, but it still isn't great! Have bruises on my lower legs from all the pounding.
Friday morning: Elliptical at the Rec Center, 35 minutes. This was as long as I could last without Netflix, y'all. How is it STILL not working?!
Friday evening: Group personal training, 55 minutes. Another high-rep day.
Saturday morning: Hot yoga, 1 hour. Usually Saturday's instructor plays more to my strengths, but my legs were having some trouble today. Holding those lunges made my hip flexors cramp up, and there were a TON of lunges. Had to stand up and pound the cramps out of my hips several times. Instructor afterward told me she felt bad for me, LOL.
Sunday (tomorrow) REST DAY!
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