Decorating and Exercise

I can’t really say that decorating for Christmas is great exercise, but I certainly got my steps in while making multiple trips up and down two flights of stairs over the course of three days. Once home from Thanksgiving dinner with family, I started decorating and spent most of Friday and Saturday doing the same (I’d put our tree up and decorated it the previous week). Once again I’ve transformed my house into a glittery wonderland borderlining on tacky, just the way I like it for the holidays.

 

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

Strength training: 1 hour of total body

Cycling: 10 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin
• Average speed: 16.5 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 10:23 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 65°
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

Walking: 2.17 miles
• Average pace: 14.48 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 90 feet
• Start time: 11:40 AM
• Location: neighborhood trails
• Weather: 42°, mostly sunny, and breezy; climbing to 46°
• What I wore: capris, s/s shirt, nylon shell, gloves, and visor

Still breezy and with a lot on my plate, I stayed inside on my spin bike for a quick workout before going outside for a walk. With a super early departure planned for Monday morning, I also made sure to get my strength training completed Sunday so I wouldn’t miss a session.

 

Monday

Drive to the farm

 

Tuesday

Core work: 10 minutes

 

Wednesday

Drive home from the farm

Too late, I thought about walking the next day’s turkey trot course (I didn’t want to walk it during the race – it would be too depressing after having raced it for so many years). Instead, I cooked for the next day making dishes to take and to have for making our own feast for the day after Thanksgiving.

 

Thursday

Strength training: 1 hour of total body

Even though I didn’t run in a turkey trot, I joined my blogging friends for a Thanksgiving day themed collage.

Collage credit: Kim

Friday

Walking: 4.18 miles
• Average pace: 14.54 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 211 feet
• Start time: 9:11 AM
• Location: neighborhood circle and short amount on trails
• Weather: 41° (feels like 38°) and mostly sunny, climbing to 42° (feels like 36°)
• What I wore: capris, s/s shirt, puffer jacket, gloves, and visor

This was no ordinary virtual walk with Kim – we were meeting on Friday rather than our usual Thursday and I witnessed a terrifying accident of which I was almost involved. I’ll share more details during our coffee chat on Friday because in a round about way, coffee was eventually involved.

Collage credit: Kim

Saturday

Strength training: 1 hour of total body

Cycling: 16.1 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin
• Average speed: 15.9 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 1:33 PM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 63° in basement, 36° (feels like 29°) outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

 

Last Week’s Blog Posts

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

 

Questions:
  • • Did you travel for Thanksgiving? ~ sort of
  • • How’s the weather in your neck of the woods? ~ It’s gotten much colder here, but I can’t complain because we’ve had such a mild fall.
  • • Did you run in a race this weekend? ~ no

 

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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