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If Washing Dishes Counted as a Workout

In last week’s recap, I mentioned that on Saturday I’d spent over 12 hours starting the process of taking everything out of our kitchen cabinets and drawers, washing the contents and purging items I hadn’t used in years. I spent another 6 hours on Sunday and 1-2 hours each day this past week. Finally by yesterday morning all cabinets in both the kitchen and butler’s pantry were empty and their contents were boxed or stacked in our family and living rooms. 

I’d hoped to share more about our kitchen project while catching up over coffee on my blog on Friday, but didn’t get a chance to work on my blog (every spare second was spent in the kitchen). Once the project is finished, it will be a lot more fun putting items back into the freshly painted cabinets and I promise to share before and after pictures at our next coffee date.

I may not have sweated a lot during all that work, but I certainly got in a lot of steps as I  carried items back and forth throughout the first floor!

 

Overview of the Week

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

 

Sunday

Cycling: 25 miles
• Average speed: 17.0 MPH
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle Spin
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 7 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 64°
• What I wore: bike shorts and jog bra

I knew that if I didn’t get on my spin bike (affiliate link) early, it wouldn’t happen. I’d missed my workout the day before thanks to our kitchen project and with another full day of cleaning ahead of me, I needed to get my workout behind me early.

 

Monday

Strength training : 1 hour of total body

 

Tuesday

Running: 5K
• Average pace: 9:09
• Start time: 8:04 AM
• Location: neighborhood circle
• Weather: 21° and sunny
• What I wore: long tights, s/s shirt, mesh lined jacket, gloves, mittens, and ear warmer headband

Foam rolling: 10 minutes

Stretching: 10 minutes

I’m rarely able to wear my 2010 Boston Marathon jacket while running because it has a mesh lining and is too hot except under very cold conditions – I normally wear unlined shells  – but at 21° I was comfortable wearing it over a short sleeved shirt. I took my mittens off for the picture so I could show off my colorful gloves.

 

Wednesday

Strength training : 1 hour of total body

Walking: 2 miles
• Average pace: 14:41
• Start time: 3:21 PM
• Location: neighborhood circle
• Weather: 47° (feels like 43°) and cloudy
• What I wore: capris, l/s shirt, down vest, gloves, mittens, and ear warmer headband

 

Thursday

Cycling: 25 miles
• Average speed: 16.6 MPH
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle Spin
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 1:18 PM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 68°
• What I wore: bike shorts and jog bra

 

Friday

Strength training : 1 hour of total body

Stretching: 15 minutes

I always thought my shoulders and arms were my best feature, but age is taking its toll making my arms look frumpy when they’re not flexed. Seriously, my arms look like they belong to two different people when they’re flexed versus just hanging there. Despite my best efforts of religiously lifting three days a week, I don’t have the tone and definition I used to have; however, I know my efforts are keeping them looking pretty good for my age.

Some of my favorite shoulder and arm exercises include upright rows, lateral/forward raises with pizza cutters, flys, reverse flys, push-ups, skull crackers (shown below), triceps press, dips, and biceps curls.

 

Reaching full range of motion…

 

Saturday

Running: 5K
• Average pace: 9:21
• Start time: 9:23 AM
• Location: neighborhood circle
• Weather: 26° (feels like 15°) and sunny, 15 MPH wind with gusts up to 23 MPH
• What I wore: long tights, s/s shirt, mesh lined jacket, gloves, mittens, and ear warmer headband

Foam rolling: 10 minutes

Stretching: 10 minutes

Notice in the picture below that the second toe on my right foot crosses over my large toe. As a result, I had a lot of rubbing resulting in blisters until I discovered Injinji toe socks (affiliate link). Each toe is encapsulated in its own little cocoon keeping it from rubbing on its toe friends and voilà, no more blisters!

 

Last Week’s Blog Posts

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

 

 Questions:
  • • Have you tried toe socks?
  • • Runners, are you better at doing dynamic warmup exercises before your run or stretching and rolling after your run?
  • • Did you run in a race this weekend?

 

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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