Overview of week 1/diving into week 2

Helllooooo ...

Warning: some might construe the language in the Kei$ha section of this blog post to be inappropriate (surprise?)

So in the theme of being honest, I'm going to reflect on last weeks workouts:

Monday - Speedwork - Felt great, but it was too slow because I can't subtract (YAY MATH)
Tuesday - weightlifting, wonderful class, I think my mom is going to join me
Wednesday - nada
Thursday - Tempo run - Felt great, but was drained by the end and not feeling well
Friday-Sunday - nada- Feeling sick so no running or cross training

So not the most successful week, but I blame it on that silly cold that I had, plus like I said in an earlier post, it was an eventful week.

Here's to this week! Tonight I did the speed workout, which was honestly very intimidating when I looked at it at first. It was a warm up,  4 x 800m at an 8 minute mile pace, and a warm down. So a total of 5 miles for the whole workout. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. The 800s go by pretty fast, except the last one I had a side cramp, for the last like .2 of the .5 mile, that was painful... like to the point where I was grimacing. Now I understand the grimace that you sometimes see runners do in those really intense photographs, but the pain quickly subsided when I slowed down. I definitely could not have done a whole 800m with that type/intensity of cramp.

Today was the first day I listened to music during my workout. I generally like to listen to pop music for running because of the beat and the electronic music is just plain fun, so today me and Kei$ha were hanging out. For those of you who thought Kei$ha was trashy but have only listened to the singles on the radio, phew you have a WHOLE nother thing coming to you. Her songs are ridiculously shitty, as in--- who knew you could objectify both men and women at the same time?----shitty. I mean, I'm regularly appalled by the awful messages about women in pop music (yet, they're so catchy... and if I was a better person maybe I would stop listening to it all together for this reason) but if there was ever a line to cross she crossed it by singing about how she wanted to dump a guy because he talked to much and so she didn't want to date a "vag" ---as in vagina. I mean seriously? Since when was having a vagina and all of the qualities that it represents used as a derogatory insult against a guy? I mean, I think it's in the same vein as stripping men of their masculinity by calling them other unmentionables that are feminine related. But still, the blatancy of it all was really appalling and...to be honest, just disgusting. Then again, that is her image... overall,  I'm just struck at how silly I was to give Kei$ha the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I'll switch to pure electronica music.

 I wonder if you're allowed to listen to music while running/ if it's like a "thing" during races. Are we supposed to be listening to our internal fights about whether or not our legs are supposed to give out? Or in my case calculating in as many freaking ways as possible how much time is left, how many miles I have run and how many more I have to go.... haha you would be surprised what a desperate mind can come up with. Or maybe you wouldn't, maybe you're not a naive Kei$ha giver of the benefit of the doubt as I am. :)

Looking forward to this week:

Tuesday - Weight training
Wednesday - 4 mile tempo run (ooops, apparently last week was supposed to be 3! at least I know I can do 4 now, haha)
Thursday - nada
Friday - cross
Saturday - endurance - 8 miles (this is what it says, I might do 7)
Sunday - nada (might switch the endurance run to this day because big game is on saturday!) --- WOOO GO STANNY - ahm, had to get that out of my system.

Until next time!