Beautiful blood moon yesterday morning in a crystal-clear sky at 3:30am, 23/13F windchill. Like a blood drop low in the sky. Took me a sec to realize what I was seeing. I had seen a headline about the eclipse, but didn't read the article.
On this morning's 5K the moon was obscured by clouds. We're supposed to get an inch or two of snow today. Further north in Duluth, 6-10 inches! Aye Caramba! Temp this morning was 31F/18F windchill. Like Dutchie says, we're still racking up Winter Challenge miles.
Really enjoying the early morning 5Ks, the constancy, getting used to stepping on rocks again, the peace and quiet, the energy boost the rest of the day.
This week in continued pursuit of my recent distilling towards ST minimalism, I've reduced workouts to three heavy lifts per session, six heavy lifts total, which means I now have just two basic workouts: (1) one lower-body push (squats) and two mid-body push/pull (Bench Press & Rows), alternating with (2) one lower-body pull (deadlifts) and two upper-body push/pull (Military Press/Thrusters & Pulldowns).
Done three times per week, this results in a two-week cycle.
................Mon.....Wed......Fri
Week 1.....(1).........(2)........(1)
Week 2.....(2)........(1)........(2)
Then each of those two workouts is paired with two different sets of assistance exercises, a & b, which stretches the thing out into a four-week cycle:
..................Mon.....Wed.......Fri
Week 1 .....(1)a.......(2)a.......(1)b
Week 2 ....(2)b.......(1)a.......(2)a
Week 3 ....(1)b.......(2)b.......(1)a
Week 4 ....(2)a.......(1)b.......(2)b
On the ST off-days, Tuesday and Thursday, and hopefully once on the weekend, I'm doing a 30-to-40-minute plyometrics, core & mobility workout. Let's call it the PCM workout. Yesterday afternoon I was able to get through about 80% of it.
So far, so good, seems like a pretty good mix. I'm also trying to do more flexibility work each day--stretches and a misinterpretation of yoga.
Finally, I'll try to get in one long run on Saturday. For the moment, I'm hold the running fairly steady at daily 5Ks while I give my body time to adapt to the push in ST and plyo. Eventually, I would like to get back up to 10-15 miles on the weekend long run, and make Tuesday and Thursday's early morning 5Ks some version of fartleks, tempo, hills, or intervals.
I have been told I should participate in this thread, so here is a reposting of a run report from another thread yesterday.
Great to have you on board Paul!