Week two of Peloton’s 2020 Pelothon challenge is in the books, and I already have the badge to prove it. The Facebook group for my Breakthrough Crew team is so active it’s overwhelming, but it’s fun when I see a post from friends like Michelle and Chaitali.
Pelothon 2020 Week 2 Workouts
The challenge for week 2 was to take two LIVE classes with ANY instructor. While that seems simpler than the week 1 challenge, it took some planning ahead since (not surprisingly) there are no live classes during my usual 5-7 am workout window, but my work-from-home status made it easier.
While I knew I had meet the requirements for the week 1 challenge, it was a relief when I received my badge on Monday. Even though Peloton said any class with your team instructors would count (including 5 min core and stretch classes), since there was no way to track your progress, people were bombarding their Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages with so many questions.
The week 2 challenge had in-App tracking, so you knew right away if your class “counted” and earned your badge as soon as you had taken two live classes.
I think Peloton learned its lesson after week 1, because the week 3 challenge also has in-App tracking. 😉
Weekly Run Down
Our heat wave continued this week, accompanied by nightly storms that did nothing to break the humidity. Almost every evening my Weather Channel app had a warning like this:
I didn’t see this downed tree until Saturday morning, but with storms Monday-Thursday nights, it’s hard to guess when it happened.
Luckily it’s far from any structures.
This week I did my 100th strength workout on the Peloton app. In keeping with the Pelothon food bank charity theme, I’m going to make a $100 donation to the Capital Areal Food Bank. which sounded the alarm this week about rising food insecurity in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Monday: 2.3 Scooby Miles + 2.6 Treadmill Bootcamp Miles
+ 10 min Live Core Workout
This was the worst morning weather–83F at 5 am! I missed working out with Jess Sims last week, so I made it a Jess Sims day, doing her 20 min Outdoor Run, 45 min 90s Bootcamp (1/2 treadmill, 1/2 strength), and 10 min stretch.
Luckily my Garmin watch still has my data on it ….
I got “ready for work” quickly so I could squeeze in my first live workout–a 7:45 am 10 min core class before my 8:00 am conference call.
I could not have done that if I were not working at home!
Tuesday: 3.1 Scooby Miles + 40 min Peloton Strength Workouts
Monday night’s storm was the worst of the week. The lightning was striking really close to our neighborhood with cracks of thunder that made us all jump. This was the worst tree damage I saw on my run, just around the corner from us.
This tree just missed hitting my neighbor’s house.
Wednesday: 3.25 Scooby Miles + 2.5 Treadmill Bootcamp Miles
+ 20 min Live Yoga Class + 10 min Live Core Workout
Tuesday night’s storms still didn’t break the humidity. It may have been a few degrees cooler Wednesday morning, but it was hard to tell.
My plan was to make Chase’s 7:45 pm core workout my second live class, but when a 7 pm conference call put that plan in jeopardy, I decided to squeeze in a 20 min live yoga class at 8:35 before my 9 am conference call.
My hips always thank me when I do a “twists” program.
As it turned out, my evening call ended in time for me to join Chase’s workout. I was expecting the usual mix of planks and crunches, but he led us through some crazy stuff–like bear plank cross under reach-throughs, which nearly had me falling on my bum!
I took the class again Sunday so I could grab a screen shot.
Thursday: 4.8 Scooby Miles + 35 min Peloton Strength Workouts
After Wednesday night’s storms it finally felt a bit nicer Thursday morning, so I chased the sunrise and ran my neighborhood loop in the opposite direction.
The Seminary has the prettiest backdrops for my local #runrise runs
Friday: 25 min Peloton Strength Workouts+ 4.5 Mile Live Treadmill Workout
+ 20 Mile Bike Ride
Morning showers rained out my run with Scooby–ending his July run streak–but that worked out for the best for me because Adrian’s live 45 min treadmill interval class was hard. To fill the time between walking Scooby and the 7 am class, I did a 20 min upper body workout.
Luckily the rain cleared up so Deborah and I could get in another bike ride.
We had to get a photo of these giant red hibiscus.
Saturday: 6.15 Scooby Miles + 10 min Live Core Workout + 20 mile Bike Ride
It felt SO NICE when I stepped outside, I couldn’t resist the weather and took Scooby on a 6 mile run, even though I also wanted to go for a bike ride.
The humidity did catch up to us eventually.
While my husband was getting the bikes ready for our ride, I squeezed in my fourth live Peloton workout of the week–and my 100th strength workout–a 10 min core workout.
Not all core work happens on the floor.
I suffered two equipment failures on our ride. First, we were 1.25 miles into our ride when I realized I didn’t have my helmet on! After going back for that, we had made it a few miles more when I got a flat tire caused by a shard of glass.
He offered to let me fix it,
but I knew he’d get it done much faster. 😉
Sunday: 3.1 Scooby Miles + 10 min Peloton Core Workout
Stepping outside, my first thought was “yuck”–the humidity was back full force and the air was soupy. At least there’s not too much sun at 6 am.
Thanks to Deborah and Kim for the Weekly Run Down link up. Even if my weeks are pretty much the same, I enjoy seeing what others are doing.
Are you freaking out over the Garmin outage?
Deborah and I are pushing the August Ultimate Coffee Date Link Up to the weekend of August 7/8/9. Mark your calendars and join us!
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You sure had a busy week! Nice job completing the week 2 challenge. So glad we got out there for another ride. My bike mileage is way up this month 🙂 We should learn how to change flat tires too I guess. Thanks for linking. No surprisingly, not too concerned with the Garmin situation. I figure it will come back eventually
I know I’m going to have to do it myself to really learn, but I’d rather not! When things re-open more we should do a Conte’s class together.
I am not freaking out over the Garmin thing. I am sad for them that this happened and I wonder what they might have done to prevent this kind of thing. Yowza on all the storms. We’ve been hot here but pretty dry. Great week for you!
It’s really hard to keep people from clicking on links in emails! I’m assuming they have back-ups but need to clean out the malicious files first.
Awesome job on all your workouts this week and congrats on completing week 2 of Pelothon! I love that you have been able to meet up with Deborah for bike rides this summer. Another perk of woking from home!
I haven’t really been following the Garmin issue since I don’t use my watch that often anymore (I use my Apple watch), but I heard that there’s a $10 million dollar ransom to get access back? If true, that’s super scary!
Thanks. I decided that since I won’t be taking a vacation, I need to do something fun, and meeting up to ride with Deb is a great way to start my weekend.
Ransomware is no joke!
You had a fantastic week of workouts!
The storms around here have been crazy – I have downed trees in my backyard but thankfully no damage to the house or fence.
The Garmin thing is just annoying – I’m not really freaking out about it but I do wish they had done a better job of communicating with customers.
I’m sure they will get lots of flak for their radio silence.
Glad you didn’t have any damage. My husband is always afraid a tree will fall on our house, but I don’t want to give up the shade!
That’s a lot of Peloton classes! I haven’t done any of the live classes. 83 at 6? That’s just crazy! Thank God it’s not that bad here (it just feels like it some days). Love that you & Deborah got your ride on again.
Yeah, Monday morning’s weather was nuts! Hopefully it won’t be that bad again.
We’re having another hot day today, but I decided to take a little break from running. It was kind of wearing me down (the getting up so early & the heat & humidity) so I’m breaking up just a little. 🙂
Anyway, even though it’s supposed to get up into the 90s today, this morning (on our walk) wasn’t too bad. Hope it’s tolerable for you!
I’m not freaking out – but i Ido miss my Garmin! It’s been sad not to be able to keep track of everything in the app. Hope they’re back up soon!
Every once in a while I question myself for using “all” of the running apps and now I guess that’s the right approach;-) Please send some of that rain over here!
Hah, true! I guess Strava has my data up to Thursday …. We hadn’t had any rain for a while, but when it gets so hot it’ not long before we have to water the flowers again …
Way to go on all those Peloton workouts and badges! We need rain, and have gotten a little, but not as much as we need. No storms recently, so that’s a good thing. I had to laugh at your riding a ways sans helmet before realizing…I’ve done that, too.
I was not happy with myself, since it means I had to ride up our hill an extra time! At least I won’t make that mistake again for a while!
How does Scooby do in the heat/humidity? He’s bigger than I realized!
This Pelothon seems like a fun new challenge! I am surprised they don’t have any live classes from 5-7 am though. That’s a popular time to workout!
Awesome week, despite the tough weather!
How scary that tree almost hit your neighbor’s house!!
I tihnk 7 am is the earliest live class time — earlier would be a lot to ask of the instructions and technology crew, especially these days. Scooby does OK in the heat but 3 miles is plenty for him when it’s so humid. I can tell by how many random stops he makes after he’s made the necessary ones. 😉
I know you’re a kind hearted person who is happy to share, but you could have kept the weather to yourself. I promise. Glad you and Deborah were able to continue your runs together
Oh Facebook groups, they can be equally wonderful and crazy making.
This Peloton group is VERY positive and supportive, it just fills my whole feed with people posting workouts or asking questions. I think our weather usually does head your way … 😛
Amazing job with all the Peloton sessions!
I couldn’t even imagine squeezing in a core or yoga session before a conf call – well done, Coco!
I guess that makes you either a little breathless or a little zen at the call, LOL!
The worst part was having to rush through my morning coffee time!
Great job on another active week!
I also had so many questions with the Challenge. Well, part of it was my fault because I did not read all of the instructions carefully. Luckily Kim was happy to answer all of my questions.
I am not freaking out about the Garmin outage. I just checked their website and it looks like it will be OK. I also checked the app this morning and I could see more information than I was able to on Thursday.
Yes, Garmin is on the way back! I’m guessing they had everything back-up — imagine how much data they had to restore!
Congrats on getting all those Peloton workouts in! Now that my race is canceled, i need to focus on more stretching/yoga/rehab kind of stuff. With the ridiculous heat this summer is bringing, it looks like working out inside is the way to go!
This weather definitely is a good time to be focusing on indoor exercising in the a/c. I do miss my hot yoga classes though.
Sounds like a good week overall! I chose the pelothon team randomly but it was cool to see you and Michelle on the Facebook page :). I did the 10 minute Saturday core class too as one of my live classes. Congrats on the 100 strength training classes!
I just found out Peloton will send you a t-shirt for your 100th! It’s all cotton, but I’ll wear it after my workout. 😉
Glad you could fit in those workouts with your WFH schedule! The heat has just been crazy. I kept hoping the storms would cool things off but no such luck.
It’s crazy that there could still be so much humidity after those severe storms. Reminds me of the summer my son was a rising HS senior playing LAX tournaments in 100 degree temperatures.
Great job!
We are having a few socially distant school supply drives and we will be contributing to those. You just roll up and pop the trunk and volunteers take the donations and send you on on your way.
Our food banks have been very busy, as well. I’ve wanted to help pack meals, but I don’t want to be close to too many people I don’t know 🙁
Not freaking out over Garmin. It’s annoying, but it’s almost fixed.
Great job on all the workouts! I just listened to the Ali On The Run podcast who had Jess Sims as her guest. Wow, she is full of crazy energy! What a fun person.