I hope you’re doing well! This past weekend was Mother’s Day, and it was extra special since it’s my first time celebrating as a mother myself! We feasted on my favorite BBQ menu items and I made the family potato salad recipe for the first time, and I think it was a success! If you celebrate the holiday, what did you do?
It’s time for another Weekly Run Down with Kim and Deborah! I’m also linking with Zenaida and Kim for Tuesday Topics and Coach Debbie Runs, Running on Happy, Confessions of a Mother Runner, Mile by Mile, Runs with Pugs, and Fauxrunner for the Runners’ Roundup!
Workouts for the Week
Monday 5/4: The daily weekday walks continued. After work, I went for 2 quick miles. I probably should have spent more time stretching post-run, but sometimes I feel rushed to get back to Baby E and neglect my prehab.
Tuesday 5/5: Just my weekday walk. After Monday’s run, it was clear that I need to have a cutback week. I’ve been feeling aches and pains and my feet have NOT been happy, which concerns me due to my past injuries.
Wednesday 5/6: No workouts, just an afternoon walk. I was feeling really down this day, and while I had originally signed up for a yoga/barre fusion class, I skipped it and spent some quality time with Bret and Baby E.
Thursday 5/7: Again no workouts except my walk. I decided on a brand new route and I ended up running into Lauren, one of my barre instructors, and we briefly chatted from a safe distance. She’s wonderful – follow her on IG!
Friday 5/8: After a long day, I went for my run in honor of Ahmuad Arbery, a young black man who was gunned down by two white men while on his own run. There was a movement to run 2.23 miles on what would have been his 26th birthday. When I finally went outside it was raining pretty heavily. It’s been so long since I’ve run in the rain and it was so refreshing.
Saturday 5/9: Lazy day – no workouts at all! However, I did sign up for the City Fit Girls Strength Club, so I’m very interested in seeing how it’ll go. I’ve never keyed into strength training since I started running, so I’m hoping that this will be a way for me to reduce injuries and become a more efficient runner.
Sunday 5/10: Mother’s Day! Now that I’m a mother, this day is so much more special. I started the day with a virtual barre class with Taryn – it was great to be back at it! Then after having all my favorite things for BBQ, we went on a family walk for over 3.5 miles.
Weekly Report Card
Listening to your body is so important, and unfortunately, I’ve been injured enough times to know when I’m approaching the danger zone. I’ve been gradually increasing my mileage over the past several weeks, but my body has let me know that I need to pull back, and I’m glad to do it. I would have liked to do more cross training and finish out the ZOOMA challenge with a bang, but it just didn’t happen. The good thing though was that I got in plenty of miles on the walking front. I do think I need some new insoles, which is awkward to buy online, but we’ll see… I will give this past week a B grade!
How were your workouts for the week? How was your Mother’s Day?
Walking is great. I’ve been doing a lot of that.
Happy first Mother’s Day!
Yes! You actually inspired me to get out there more! Thank you!
Happy First Mother’s Day!!
Thanks so much!
Happy (first) Mother’s Day!!! I probably mentioned this last week (?), but good on you for all that walking. Although it was a sad occasion, it was beautiful seeing all the tribute runs for Ahmaud Albery on Friday.
Happy Mother’s Day! Good for you for listening to your body! The months after a C-section are not easy and being cautious makes a huge difference. All the barre and strength work is going to help you so much!
Happy 1st mother’s day! I think you did a great job listening to your body. People ignore their bodies all the time — we often end up injured because of it!
I spent much of mother’s day trying to get my mom up to speed on Zoom. It was super challenging. In the end we enlisted a staff member there, but we were able to get her on the call, and that made everyone happy (the call was today for my brother’s 60th birthday).
Happy 1st Mother’s day to you!! it is nice to be pampered 🙂 I’m mostly excited about Mother’s Day because I tell my family I’m not cooking or doing any housework! They are good with that.
No, no, you get an A+ this week for listening to your body. Our first priority as runners is making sure that things don’t hurt. I often slack on strength training since frankly I’d rather run, but I’ve been in a good groove with it lately and it does help. I’ll be interested to hear what you think of the program that you just started.
I hope you had a wonderful first Mother’s Day!
I am still in shock about what happened to Ahmaud. In broad daylight, no less. It has to stop.
Thanks a lot, Jenn!
Yeah, who knew that “running while black” could be as dangerous as “driving while black”…ugh!
Happy first Mother’s Day!! Sounds like as nice a day as can be had in those social distancing times 😉
France celebrates Mother’s Day in June so I’ll celebrate my mom a little later…
Happy first mother’s day! Hope it was special with everything going on. You are really making a strong comeback w your fitness. The first year was so hard for me!
Happy to hear that you had a wonderful Mother’s Day! I just love all the photos you posted with your little girl – her smile just warms my heart!
Awesome job on your workouts this week. I agree with you about Friday’s run – it was a very hard run for me and I just never got into a groove. I had so many thoughts going through my mind, but mostly just a lot of sadness and anger.
I’m glad you had a good first Mother’s Day! It sounds like you are being really smart about getting back into running more and you have a good balance with the cross training you’re doing!
Thank you, Lisa! I hope you had a great Mother’s Day too!
Happy first Mother’s Day! I’m glad you had a nice one. We had a barbecue out on the deck and it was so nice.
Take care of yourself. Injuries suck. I know in the past you’ve had plantar fasciitis. Are you still having problems with it?
Just found your blog after seeing you on the Zoom calls – I’m so bad at adding more people from the weekly linkup! I just wanted to comment on here that this white British woman stood in solidarity and ran for Ahmuad Arbery, as did a good few of my friends over here. I’m sorry you have to face that extra fear as well as the general having to be careful as a woman. I was reminded of the latter as I ran on some trails yesterday I don’t go on on my own – but I had a friend with me.
Oh and happy first mother’s day!