Monday, February 8, 2010

Mileage home stretch ... and about those pushups?

Entering this week I have completed 85 miles, so I should hit 100 sometime this week! Yea! This is definitely the easy part of the whole mileage, pushup challenge. Since I am training for a half-marathon I am racking up between 12-20 miles a week. This coming week for example: three outings of 3-4 miles each and then the endurance day of 9 miles.
Turns out there is a Valentine's Day 4-mile race nearby, so several of us are going to take part in that, and then do a one-mile warm-up, leaving the remaining 4 miles for after the race. We are told there will be post-race Valentine's Day cookies .... which we can take with us for after the additional mileage!
Now about those pushups! Week 4 was hard. Yes, I admit it! And frankly, I never liked doing pushups! But I am not a quitter. I feel like I gave Week 4 an honest effort and although I did not meet the minimum repetitions of Set 5 each day, I went ahead and did an exhaustion tes to see where I am at overall.
So I did 36 consecutive modified pushups which puts me in the middle column going into Week 5. This means my repetitions are a little less demanding which is so okay by me!
Today was Day 1 of Week 5. And honestly, my workout was somewhere between Column 1 and Column 2. But that being said, I am still doing some 100-plus pushups overall in a 7 minute workout period, with rests of about 60-90 seconds in between the sets of 20-25 each. So that is something. Well, it is to me! The Week 5 workout changes on Day 2 to less repetitions per set but the number of sets goes up to 8.
This sounds better to me, but we'll find out when I get down to it.

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