Great American Ride

My Dawn Patrol friends and I are participating in the Great American Ride where we will log our outdoor and indoor ride mileage as our team makes its way virtually across America. On Saturday, April 6 we started our journey in La Push, Washington working our way toward DC, arriving Friday, June 6. The team with the most miles during the time wins. I’m already dragging our team down by not logging any miles on the first day. LOL

 

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

Cycling: 18.1 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin
• Average speed: 15.4 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 8:34 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 66° in basement, 66° and mostly cloudy outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

Walking: 3.25 miles
• Average pace: 18:13 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 66 feet
• Start time: 1:04 PM
• Location: neighborhood trails
• Weather: 79° and partly cloudy
• What I wore: shorts, s/s shirt, and visor

I started the morning on my spin bike before running to Home Depot for a few gardening supplies. I spent the rest of the day getting our deck ready for spring – pulling chairs, little tables, etc. out of the garden shed and hanging our decorative suns on the back of the house.

The weather was so glorious that I made sure to fit a walk into my busy day, stopping to take pictures of flowers and blooming trees along the trail.

 

Monday

Strength training: 30 minutes of lower body and core

I finally got in to see a urologist. My current diagnosis (from the ER visit) is hydroureteronephrosis. Rather than getting answers on what is causing the stricture and how to fix it, she ordered more tests…

 

Tuesday

Cycling: 6.8 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin / Peloton Tabata Ride with Robin Arzon
• Average speed: 17.5 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 9:05 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 63° in basement, 44° (feels like 38°) and mostly sunny outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

Cycling: 3.8 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin / Peloton Low Impact Ride with Denis Morton
• Average speed: 16.2 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 9:33 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 62° in basement, 45° (feels like 38°) and mostly sunny outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

Walking: 2.12 miles
• Average pace: 16:06 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 46 feet
• Start time: 10:41 AM
• Location: neighborhood trails
• Weather: 48° (feels like 45°) and mostly sunny
• What I wore: shorts, s/s shirt, light puffer jacket, visor, and mittens over gloves

Nap time: 1 hour 43 minutes

I stopped by my dermatologist’s office to have the sutures removed from my basal cell removal surgery the prior Tuesday. During the process, the nurse said for me not to lift weights for 8 weeks. What? Even after my appendectomy the surgeon told me I could resume all activities after two weeks, just ease back in gradually. My dermatologist has always said I could resume normal activities after two weeks as well. So what’s a girls to do? I’m going to listen to my doctors.

 

Wednesday

Strength training: 30 minutes of lower body and core

Walking: 3.06 miles
• Average pace: 16:36 minute/mile
• Elevation gain: 125 feet
• Start time: 4:13 PM
• Location: neighborhood trails
• Weather: 56° and mostly cloudy
• What I wore: capris, s/s shirt, puffer jacket, and visor

It was National Walking Day and I was lucky that Kim was available to join me for a mile of my walk. We had to hang up when the wind in Iowa got so bad that I could no longer hear her.

 

Thursday

Cycling: 13.1 miles
• Bike: Life Fitness Lifecycle GX Spin
• Average speed: 16.0 MPH
• Surface: N/A
• Elevation gain: N/A
• Start time: 6:35 AM
• Location: basement
• Weather: 64° in basement, 52° and cloudy outside
• What I wore: bike shorts and sports bra

I met Kim for our Thursday morning virtual cardio workout with both of us on our spin bikes.

Collage credit: KIm

Friday

Strength training: 30 minutes of lower body and core

Balance and stretching: 45 minutes

 

Saturday

Nap time: 1 hour 29 minutes

Even though I’d gotten a great night’s sleep, I was dragging all day. I taught a 2-hour fitness orientation class at the gym mid-day and that was pretty much the extent of my activities. I was shocked when I took such a long nap once home from the class.

 

Last Week’s Blog Posts

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

 

Questions:
  • • Did you know that Wednesday was National Walking Day? ~ Back in January when I wrote the post of all the year’s “national fitness days” I added them to my calendar so I wouldn’t forget to celebrate. 🙂
  • • Are you seeing many spring flowers? ~ lots
  • • 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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