Running With Perseverance

I know Garmin sucks at tracking my runs in Chicago and New York City—the GPS bounces off the tall buildings and has me running back-and-forth across the river or cutting corners through sky scrapers. That said, it’s never given me a reason to doubt its accuracy on my neighborhood runs, until this week,

I’m sure the Garmin algorithms are complicated, but …

Good Grief, Garmin

These days my outdoor runs usually follow one of just a few neighborhood routes. I have a 3-ish miles loop and a 4-ish mile loop I can stretch to 5. We were blessed with amazing weather this week, so I squeezed in two runs before work. I followed the same route both times, but on Monday Garmin tracked me at 4 miles while on Thursday it only gave me credit for 3.75! Good grief, Garmin!

You can guess which run I hope was tracked more accurately, but when I looked at the maps I could see that Monday’s was a lot more wobbly, while Thursday’s had me running in straighter lines. It did clip off a corner from Thursday’s run (not shown above), but otherwise Thursday’s shorter distance seems more accurate. ~sigh~ Of course, I ran past my starting point to round Thursday’s run up to 4 miles. 😉

Weekly Wrap

I ended up alternating strength and running days this week instead of trying to squeeze in both every day. I only did two of the three classes in Andy’s program, but also tried a new class with Adrian and took my new favorite lower body workout with Matty again.

Sunday: Core + 30 min UB Strength + 30 min Peloton Ride
I don’t usually take Cody’s classes, but he was celebrating 10 years at Peloton, so I didn’t want to miss it.Of course there was Britney Spears on the playlist!

Monday: 4.0 (?) Scooby  Miles
We finally got a break in the weather and it was glorious—until I got stung in the neck about 2 miles in. 😩 I felt like a victim of a Hunger Games tracker jacker the way it came out of nowhere and got me!

Tuesday: 30 min Strength
I had to take Scooby to the vet @ 6:30 for a dental cleaning appointment, so my workout time was short. This class from Andy’s program starts and ends with core exercises, so it’s a good 2-for-1 on a short day.

Wednesday: 30 min Strength + 20 min Peloton Ride
Scooby was still recovering from his day at the vet, so instead of taking him for a run I tried Adrian’s strength class. I loved the exercises, but really wanted 15 seconds more per set or at least more time before starting the circuit again.

Thursday: Core + 4.0 Scooby Miles
It was still nice out, but I could tell the humidity is creeping up again. At least I didn’t get stung this time.

Friday: Core + 20 min LB Strength + 10 min ALW
I went all-in on strength, with separate core, lower body, and arms classes. Jess Kings’ arms + light weights class was a good one, and included front and lateral raises that can be neglected in some of the “normal” upper body classes.

I accidentally turned my alarm off at 5 am and didn’t wake up until 6:20!

Saturday: 3.5 Tread Miles  + Corepower Yoga + 30 Mile Bike Ride
I figured out that if I actually got up at 6 am, I would have time to walk Scooby and do a 30 min treadmill class and still have time for a cup of coffee and piece of toast before heading to yoga. It’s a tighter schedule than I like to have on Saturday morning, but Ann’s yoga classes are worth it!

After yesterday’s oversleeping incident,
I woke up at 5:45 and got out of bed at 5:59–just before my alarm went off.

After baking and eating some banana bread, I joined my husband on a 30 mile bike ride—the cloudy, cool weather was just too nice to resist!

Then I took a long shower and a short nap! 😆

A huge thank you to Deborah and Kim for hosting the Weekly Run Down link up.

Have you noticed inconsistencies in your Garmin mileage?

It was one of those weeks. Nothing bad happened, but the hassles and stresses kept coming. I was exhausted by Monday, and still had a whole week to get through!

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August rolled in with another heatwave, and a cycle of steamy mornings, oppressive afternoon humidity, and late day storms. There’s nothing I could do but surrender to summer and do most of my running on my treadmill.

80F at 5:00 am!!

The newspaper said it was our 5th heatwave. At what point do we just call it summer?

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