Happy Sunday. Y’all, it’s been a hard week. Mentally I’m exhausted and I’m so emotionally drained, but I’ll try to keep this post as upbeat as possible.
So I decided to move away from the “Stay at Home” title for these posts moving forward since I’ll be working from home until at least October. This week I turned up the intensity on my workouts (really, really needed stress relief) and it felt pretty good. I’ve always valued the time I carve out for my workouts, but I definitely appreciate it now a lot more.
Here’s how my workouts went this week:
Monday, May 25
Murph Workout
In honor of Memorial Day, I did a modified Murph workout. Murph is a CrossFit workout to honor Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who was killed in action in Afghanistan. It consists of a 1 mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats followed by another 1 mile run. I don’t have a pull up bar at home so I had to modify that move and I scaled down to my knees for the last few sets of pushups. This was my first time doing the workout so I broke everything into sets of 10-20 reps to make it more manageable. I will definitely do this workout again next year.
Tuesday, May 26
Peloton Hip Hop Ride 2/7/20 – Tunde (30 minutes)
Peloton Move for More: HIIT Ride 12/12/19 – Tunde (15 minutes)
Peloton Pop Ride 9/10/19 – Tunde (15 minutes)
Peloton Power Walk 8/21/19 – Jess (30 minutes)
Such a great morning riding with Tunde. She has a very positive spirt and bubbly personality, but she’s also hard as hell, so it’s a nice combination. Needed the power walk to help stretch out my legs.
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Wednesday, May 27
Peloton Intervals Run 5/19/20 – Adrian (30 minutes)
Peloton 90s Rock Ride 5/26/20 – Emma (45 minutes)
Peloton Yoga Flow Hips 5/27/20 – Chelsea (10 minutes)
Whew this workout was spicy! The intervals run was hard, but good. I’m enjoying Adrian as an instructor so far. The cycle class was hard since I did it after the run (probably should have done it before). Later on that afternoon I learned that Peloton added a new yoga instructor so I decided to take one of her classes and it did not disappoint! My hips definitely felt less tight after that class.
Thursday, May 28
Peloton Best of the Decade Bootcamp 12/28/19 – Jess (60 minutes)
Peloton Cool Down Run 11/12/19 – Jess (10 minutes)
This was such a great class! I needed a few days off from weights after the Murph workout so it felt good to use weights during the strength training portion of the class. I added in the cool down run since I was really focusing on intervals during the running portion of the workout.
Friday, May 29
Peloton Backstreet Boys Ride 5/17/19 – Cody (30 minutes)
Peloton Coldplay Ride 11/21/19 – Emma (30 minutes)
Peloton offers special “Artist Series” rides. These rides are collaborations with music artists and feature a playlist with songs exclusively from that artist. I’ve done a few of these before (Lizzo, JLo) but there are still a ton I haven’t taken. The series offers cycle, running and yoga classes. My goal is to get through all the classes in the series by the end of the summer – it should be fun!
Saturday, May 30
Peloton Red Hot Chili Peppers Ride 7/24/19 – Emma (45 minutes)
Peloton AHM: Classical Cool Down Ride 5/26/20 – Emma (10 minutes)
Continuing on my quest to take more of the Artist Series ride, I picked the RHCP ride. It was actually a lot of fun to rock out to this ride to start off my day, and I was amazed that I still knew most of the lyrics to the songs! The rest of the day was spent deep cleaning the kitchen. This has been on my to-do list since the beginning of the stay at home order and I finally did it…only took me 11 weeks. Honestly it was nice to have something to focus my energy on for a few hours.
Sunday, May 31
6.2 mile run
I completed this week’s run for the un-canceled project. This week’s theme was “joy”. Sorry, but I just don’t see anything joyful about this week. However, I was thankful for nice weather for the run.
I headed to the supermarket after my run. I like to go early to avoid as many people as possible. I think this mask kept people away, lol.
Total Weekly Mileage: 14.6 miles
Summary: 3 runs*, 7 cycle class (I don’t count warm up/cool down rides), 1 strength workouts and 1 bootcamp class.
*I include running from my OTF workouts, boot camp classes and stand alone runs as well.
Grade This Week – A
Not a lot of strength training/boot camps this week as I was pretty sore from the Murph workout. My arms, shoulders and pecs were sore until Thursday. It’s a hard workout but I felt so satisfied when I finished it.
I closed out the month with some great Peloton accomplishments. Every month they have different challenges where you can achieve bronze, silver or gold status. I’m proud of myself for getting gold status for the May Activity Challenge (worked out more than 15 days in the month), May Cycling Challenge (cycle more than 150 miles in the month) and May Running Challenge (run more than 40 miles in the month). Since I’m not training for races, I like to use these challenges as something to strive for during my workouts. I hope I can also do the same in June. This is one way I’m staying motivated week after week.
Speaking of races, I was sad but not surprised, to hear that the Boston Marathon was canceled. I know how hard those runners worked to qualify for the race and my heart breaks for them. I know that they are offering a virtual option, but it’s just not the same. Also, a virtual marathon sounds like torture to me – I’m not sure I could run that many miles with no crowd support or other runners near me. After hearing about this cancelation, I don’t really have high hopes for other Fall races. I’m signed up for a half marathon in October but I won’t be surprised if it gets canceled or re-scheduled for 2021.
…and because I always like to end my post with a little humor..
My reaction to the crowded beaches on Monday.
Hopefully stores continue to get back to normal.
I’d buy this.
Accurate.
That’s it! I hope you had a great week 🙂
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Those memes always make me smile. Way to crush the Peloton workouts this month. I am loving all the content they are offering. I am thinking of going back and trying to PZ rides. I want to be able to hang higher on the leader board but I love the regular classes. it’s a dilemma! thanks for linking up
I agree – they have really stepped it up with the content that have offered over the past few months. There really is something for everyone on the app. I feel like my output is SO much lower than everyone else even though I’m killing myself on the bike – I have find a way to do better.
I really like the idea of going for the Peloton awards.
I wasn’t expecting anything less of you getting the gold status for the May Activity Challenge, the Cycling Challenge and the Running Challenge!! Well done!
Now you’ll have to do the same for June. You’ve got this!
Thanks so much Catrina – You are the sweetest!
I have never tackled Murph. Not sure I really want to, but it is a great way to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice on Memorial Day.
I thought about my Dad. He was a WWII vet, just a private and rarely talked about his experiences. But he was definitely in my heart on Monday’s 5k.
Cleaning the kitchen — great job! I’m about halfway through my fridge. I won’t even tell you how overdue that is!
Murph was a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I felt great once it was over!
There’s just something satisfying about a super clean kitchen 🙂
Well done on your peleton work and my goodness that workout, no wonder you were sore for a while afterwards! And I’m with you on the no joy.
oops meant to say but I do love your mask with the words on, that’s amazing!
Thanks Liz! The workout were a little rough this week but I felt super accomplished doing them.
My friend told me about the mask and I ordered it immediately because I just thought it was so perfect!
I’ve said this before, but you are such a Peloton queen. I think of you when I’m biking…and wonder how you do it “inside” LOL (as you know, I’m not an indoor gal…ahem #millie). And, that mask is on-point! Thinking of you…hoping things feel a bit more joyful in the days to come <3
Awwe thanks so much #kimtwin 🙂 I’ve been feeling kinda down so your comment cheered me up. Eventually I would love to try biking outside, but need to purchase a bike first, lol. I got the mask from Etsy – let me know if you want the link!
It’s definitely hard to find joy today, but listening to Bishop Curry’s sermon helped — no surprise that he urged us all to not lose hope and respond with love. I still can’t get over that you will be home until October. Our office is opening in a few weeks, but only at a partial level, so I’m staying home. I adore Jess Sims and will keep taking her classes even though they leave me in a sweaty puddle on the floor!
It sounds like that sermon was right on time – I love when that happens.
My office is in a unique spot because we were in the process of moving in March and then everything came to a halt. Movers had to finish packing everything up and bring it to the new office building….but the new issue is that we were moving to an “open office” layout (not many office, mainly just very compact cubes). Obviously that layout won’t work now, so they have to re-do everything. It’s such a mess!
A Red Hot Chili Peppers ride sounds fun – love them! You are really kicking it on your workouts. Good job!
I got outside for two rides this week and it made things feel a little bit more normal.
The RHCP ride made me realize how much I love their music! I need to start listening to their albums more often.
I was so ridiculously sore after Murph, but not for a couple of days. Then it just lingered. LOL
Congrats on achieving your gold status! I think right now we have to celebrate all our wins. What a tough time–I just feel so helpless. Like I’m watching it all unfold and there is nothing I can do to make it better. XOXO
Haha same here – it went from super sore to more of a dull sore. That’s exactly how I feel – helpless. I can donate to causes and use my voice but is that really helping? I just feel like I’m not making a big enough impact.
A murph? That is impressive.
I’m been just doing the un-canceled 5ks. I keep saying I’ll do a 10k some week.
Congrats on hitting Gold.
The murph workout was hard, but I felt super accomplished once it was over!
You continue to crush those Peloton workouts – congrats on all those challenges!
I need that mask LOL!
And, yes so hard to find Joy today – I tried to find gratitude in small things, but my heart is so heavy.
I love this mask – I got it from Etsy. IT took about a month to get it but it was worth the wait!
Aggressive cannibal rats! Yikes!
What a bummer about Boston, but no surprise. I wouldn’t want to do it virtually…but I do have some friends who have been on a “Boston streak” where if you do it more than 10 times in a row (I think) you continue to auto-qualify. I wonder if they still have to complete the virtual 26.2 to continue? Totally agree that 26.2 is a bit too far for virtual for me 🙂 And will be interesting to see how quickly the other majors follow suit.
I love that mask!
Definitely a heavy week, but glad you’re able to find joy in working out.
The aggressive cannibal rats are crazy, but I guess it make sense because they don’t have enough trash/leftover food to eat from the restaurants. That’s a good point about the “Boston Streak”. I hope that they would count the virtual 26.2 as part of the streak!
You always find the best memes! Its like really, can 2020 get any worse? Great job with all those workouts! I can’t believe Boston is cancelled, but I guess I’m not surprised. I don’t think I would want to do a virtual marathon either!
I feel like 2020 just keeps supplying us with memes because thing are just so bad 🙁
WoW Congrats on the Murph! That is awesome! I need that mask and OMG that candle! Haha! I’m so sad about our current state of affairs. Wish I had an answer. SIgh. I believe my husband’s office will start going back with half staff this week.
I actually wish that candle was real because I would buy it in a heartbeat. 2020 is definitely one for the record books – just so much sadness and despair.
Sounds like a good week of peloton workouts! I hadn’t heard of that artist series before, they sounds like fun.
I’m looking forward to taking more classes from the artists series!
I should probably take a Peloton spin class before my trial membership runs out! Which sounds kind of crazy, but I just haven’t had an interest in riding my spin bike. That’s good (right?) that you won’t be heading back to the office until Oct. My office is relocating this weekend and I just got my moving box. I’m sad about it!! Great job on the workouts this week – especially the Murph!
Definitely try to take a cycle class before the free trial expires! You have the option to sort by length of time, music genre, etc.
That candle meme, though! How true!
And I thought June was more about the monkeys that stole COVID-19 samples from the lab!
I’m glad you are getting to work at home through October. I hope you start to see things easing up soon.
I wish that candle was available for purchase, lol. I saw the story about the monkeys and all I could do was laugh – that was peak 2020 foolishness, lol.
Great job on your challenges! I like that they’re motivating me to keep running. I have to check out the “Artist Series”! I am shocked about the Boston Marathon. I doubt the rest of the other big marathons will take place.
Same – I don’t have a lot of hope for the Fall races, which is a bummer because that’s the best season for running!