When The Blogrollers held their #RaceRelax Weekend contest a few weeks ago, I knew I absolutely had to win. I worked that contest hard and when I won, it felt like it was “meant to be”.  Training to race a 5k is a whole different game than the half marathon or longer distance races I had been looking to run.  I plan to use the Atlanta race as a training run in my long term schedule but I’ll be running along side some very tall rock star runners and I’d like to turn in a respectable time… lest they start calling me Bumbling Blonde….

This is what my week looked like:

Monday

- 6am 60 min. Hot Power Fusion Yoga (Core Power)

- 30 minutes easy run

Tuesday

- 6am 60 min. C2 Yoga (Core Power)

Wednesday

- 60 min. Yoga II-III Vinyasa Flow (CCAC)

-  55 minute interval training on tread mill at CCAC – I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro twice!

(since it was rainy and my club has a spa I popped in for a 50 minute sports massage ahhh)

Thursday

- 60 min.  C2 yoga (Core Power)  **bonus, Kat had a play date so I took advantage!

Friday – Rest

Saturday

- 45 minute run with Jogtunes Podcast 180 bpm peak (my nike+ wasn’t picking up so I’m not sure of the distance)

Sunday – Rest

Observations: I’m a fair weather runner and I don’t love the treadmill so every winter I fret about “losing” my groove with running.  It makes sense that I always fall right back into it because I stay very active during the winter with yoga, snowboarding, strength training etc.  The wear and tear on your body when running is pretty significant and I’ve always tried to force myself to stick to a 3-4 day a week max of actual running. As my body has changed from practicing yoga i am now convinced that I might actually be able to train a marathon with 3-4 days of running a week…. I think