Run/yoga!

:35 as 1:1, breakfast and digestive interval, 12:30 hatha I in the non-heated room. It was a good class, though I found the teacher virtually incomprehensible (I would suddenly phase in and understand a sentence, and then it was gone again) - she spoke in a very hoarse near-whisper - I was slightly relieved to learn after class that it was because she has laryngitis! Good teacher regardless but it is more relaxing when I don't have to keep popping up my head to look at what the others are doing....

Run/yoga!

Early(ish) 1hr run (2:1). Breakfast, digestive interval, then 1pm 1hr hot hatha. Gosh it is hot! Makes even pretty easy things a lot harder than they would be otherwise - that said, even simple yoga isn't exactly easy, you should always be concentrating and working....

Monday run!

30 as 1:1, nice and easy for a teaching day. Gotta now get my notes typed up and assignments commented on before class!

NB not very impressed with my low yoga attendance these past two weeks (only two classes each week - I couldn't get myself back out the door yesterday evening), but daily run and good nutrition are the two important things, so I will endeavor not to be too self-critical about it! Will see if I can manage more like 3 or even 4 this week - I think it's possible. It's hard for me to go back out after dark especially if I ran properly in the morning - what really would work best would be if I could run a little earlier and then get to either 1pm or 5pm class. I prob just need to bite the bullet and go to whatever class is in the right time slot, even I think it is going to be too hard and/or too hot!

Sunday run!

1hr as 2:1. Back sore on hills! Very nice though - the weather here is just so perfect for running - high 40s and overcast but very mild...

Ladder run!

I think I will just paste in my training log entry: "Hahahaha, that was SO FUN! It is hard to explain why I like this kind of "ladder" workout so much except to say that it is like a corset for anxiety - not the uncomfortable kind of corset, more like the harness when you're ziplining, or that machine that Temple Grandin invented that compresses anxious cattle at the slaughtetrhouse! Have established bus route to Luxembourg Gardens (it is a very direct route, though I was freezing waiting at the stop to come home - but have high psychological toleration for cold, unlike heat which makes me frazzled!), took bus there, did my 90 as 30 warmup at 2:1 and then 2 sets of your funny ladder, WHICH I LOVE! It's flat there unlike my nearby park run, this is much easier on back (could feel tightness build to the end of the longer jog intervals, but otherwise fine). My right butt cheek is clearly suffering/benefiting from the stretch at yoga, at first it just felt tingly and then it increasingly felt like a block of wood! May try a few days of ibuprofen to see if I can quiet the inflammation, but I think it's part of the process of getting it back to normal functionality...."

David's funny ladder (it adds up to 30 minutes so it's really a fun one to have in the arsenal - it reminded me of a certain kind of swim workout; I miss swimming!):

1 x 4:1
2 x 3:1
3 x 2:1
4 x 1:1

Yoga!

1hr hot hatha. I am getting a BIT of heat acclimation at least! That was really nice....

Friday run!

That was super-nice. My kind of weather - it doesn't get old! :35 as 2:1.

Thursday run

I've got David to write the longer midweek run into Thursday rather than Wednesday because it's easier to do it not on a teaching day; that said, the essay I didn't get to work on yesterday (I ran instead, as I should!) took up the whole morning, and then I put the run off a little longer by dint of it being 2pm and deciding to eat lunch instead and then needing a digestive interval - yes, one of THOSE days! However I got out the door around 4 and it was surprisingly nice. I feel rather stiff and that R back/hip is really sore on hill intervals, but I enjoyed the whole thing....

1hr as 20 easy @ 1:1, 20 mod/hard @ 4:1, 20 easy @ 1:1

Easy Wednesday run

Just 35 as 1:1. Need to shower and get myself out of the house - undemanding but important session this afternoon getting library access for me and graduate students at the ENS library! Now that is a good thought....

Yoga!

Not very impressed by how few classes I got to last week, though I suppose if I am feeling kind I can put it down to ongoing adjustment issues esp. re: sleep! Hope this week will be better - really I need to write the actual specific classes into my appointment book, I think. This class was great, Vinyasa I, close equivalent of my Slow Flow class in Cayman - even simple easy yoga is hard if you haven't been doing it regularly of course! But it's nice not having the room heated!

Catch-up

Mysterious absence of posts for Sun. and Mon., I did run both days and logged in my training spreadsheet: Sunday was :50 as 2:1 (should have been an hour but I left it to the end of the day due to housecleaner timing issues, my morale wasn't high, it was pouring with rain and my back was sore), Monday was :20 as 1:1 (only short and easy on teaching days). Today was really nice, I have the day completely to myself to try and get this essay written, will go to yoga in the evening: :45 as 2:1.

Long run!

Found my route to Luxembourg Gardens on foot this time, though I got completely lost coming home and had to go to random Metro stop and take a couple trains home! This was much less of a slog than last week. (I'm still not happy with sleep schedule - I just don't feel sleepy at all, even at 2am, and accordingly have a very hard time dragging myself out of bed before about 10 - gonna make a concerted effort to get things a bit earlier.)

(Sore R hamstring and back starting to hurt on the longer jog intervals, work in progress.)

100 minutes: 5 x 20, odds 1:1, evens 4:1

Run-yoga combo!

Hmmm, not sure about that, it is efficient in certain respects (and I am looking forward to only having to take ONE shower today!) but I think having jogged first makes the hot even more hot! That said, it was a good class - the "hot hatha 60" with this good teacher I like - really I need to try all the different classes, I have yet to find one that I would call easy!

30 as 1:1, 1hr hot yoga

Hot yin-yang!

Hahaha, it's a REALLY good class but it's way too hot for me, I had to lie down for several stretches in the second half of class! I need to go more frequently so that I can beef up my acclimation. Think tomorrow I will shoot for a 60-minute hot class, 90 is brutal whatever you're doing....

Thursday run!

I've been blaming it on jet lag that I'm having such a struggle to get up in the morning (i.e. alarm set for 8:30, deep snoozing till 9:30, gradual surfacing and physical rising maybe 9:45 or 9:50) - that said, really I have a very similar struggle at home! Today was BLISS - mild rainy weather (52F!), did an hour in the park with varying intervals (2:1 as base, 1:1 on longer uphills and longer stretches of jogging on downhills once I was fully warmed up). BLISS, I say!

1hr misc.