Wow, I had a crazy busy week last week. As I mentioned in my last rehab recap, I was planning on doing an activity every day to keep my fitness up while I rest and recover. I didn’t keep up with my workouts every single day, but I did keep myself quite busy.
Tuesday — 45 minutes cycling, strength training
Tuesday was great. I followed a 45-minute training video on YouTube that a friend recommended, and it was a really tough workout. I finally broke a sweat on the bike trainer. I felt pretty good. I followed it up with a quick strength training session with light weights and felt great.
Wednesday — 45 minutes of yoga
Wednesday was just gorgeous. I actually took my yoga outside finally! I don’t know why it’s taken me two months of living in my new place to take my practice outside, but I did it and I’m glad I did. It was a beautiful fall day. The leaves were colorful and crunchy, and the weather was perfect. Not too many of those days left, I’m sure.
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| Ahhhh… pigeon pose. |
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| My beautiful view for yoga! |
Thursday — 30 minutes cycling, strength training
I did another training video on YouTube. This time instead of intervals it was one long build of difficulty. It was kind of fun, albeit not nearly as entertaining as the first video I followed. But I worked hard and broke a sweat, and that’s what’s important. I ended my workout on Thursday with another strength session.
I should add that on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I was raking leaves like crazy. We got some of those awesome pumpkin garbage bags and I wanted to fill them before the weekend, so I was working feverishly at getting giant piles into them. Plus my kids were having a blast jumping into leaf piles. The reason I’m mentioning this here is because while Friday was technically a rest day, it really wasn’t because I was outside raking for a few hours that day!
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| Pumpkin family! |
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| Real family! |
Saturday — minimal cycling
The goal of Saturday was to cycle a half marathon course. I wasn’t sure what the weather was going to be doing (it was forecasting rain) and I’m not the most confident of cyclers, if you haven’t picked that up yet, so I was playing it largely by ear. Luckily the forecast changed but just before the race we found out it was an open-course. There were a few volunteers directing runners, but it made me nervous to be out on roads that I was completely unfamiliar with on a bike that I was not confident riding on with vehicular traffic on one side and runner traffic on the other. So I opted not to cycle the half marathon course. I did ride up a few hills, though, so it wasn’t a complete day off!
Sunday — 4 miles cycling
I met up with my running clients for a “run” on Sunday. They ran. I rode. On their schedule was a 4-mile run and I really didn’t want them to have to run 4 easy miles on the track. I made the route for a bike-friendly location so I could stick with them but stay off my feet. I rode 4 miles behind them. It was a unique experience riding with the runners but admittedly kinda fun! I just can’t wait to get back out there with them.
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| Do NOT text and drive — or take photos and cycle. |
I didn’t technically keep up with my “one workout a day” mantra, but I kept pretty busy so I’m counting it as such. So far I’ve been pain-free for almost a solid week. Once a week hits, I’m cleared to start running low mileage again. I have to start slow and if anything hurts, I stop. Keep sending those healing vibes, friends. I think they’re working!!
xo
How are YOU staying fit this week? Any leaf-raking in your future? It’s a tough workout and builds those guns!!
This post is linked up with My No-Guilt Life, Marcia’s Healthy Slice, and MCM Mama Runs for Tuesdays on the Run.
