The Weekender + Last Week’s Workouts

Heyyyy! Me again! And I’ve got some links that I’ve been gathering and saving up for weeks. The weekends kept getting away from me and I hadn’t shared links for a while, so here we go! 

The Weekender

• This inspired a total overhaul of my instagram use. 

• “OMG, I am soooo busy.” Why do we do this??

•  I’m kind of intrigued by this one exercise that will supposedly dramatically improve my running. Anyone tried it before?

•  I <3 grammar and language.

•  You CAN take great photos with your iPhone in the dark –> Here’s how and it’s genius. 

• Woah. 

•  I feel like this is pretty unnecessary. I’ll stick my wine in the fridge, thanks.

•  These girls from Nashville are so cute and talented! 

• I’m totally flattered that I was included in Spry Living’s roundup of favorite health bloggers! 

• I tried this mango-peeling method tonight. IT WORKED. Holy crap, my life has been changed.

 

Last week’s workouts

S – rest (I was in DC and some of the girls did a bootcamp. Allison, Annie the Bulldog and I supervised. 🙂 )

M – SLEEP IN

T – 3.5 mile run + weights

W – 5.5 mile run

Th – 5 mile run

F – intervals + upper body weights (workout details posted here. This was a GREAT workout!)

S – rest (although I think cleaning counts as a workout!)

A few of you asked on my last post how I increased my running pace by so much. Here is the post I wrote about how I increased my running speed. I’m going to keep thinking to see if I think of anything else I’ve done since I wrote that post that I think has helped. But I still stand by everything in that post!  If you’ve been reading for a while you can see from that post that my pace and PRs have improved even since I wrote that just 18 months ago! When I wrote that, my half PR was 1:42 and now it’s 1:34, and I’ve cut over 30 seconds off my 5K time. I think the biggest factors still are #1 and #4 – training with faster runners (for me, this is John!) and intervals! 

Hope your week gets off to a great start! Let me know if you have any specific questions about increasing your pace, or want more details about anything!

Happy running! 

 xo