Happy Monday! I just got back from another fun weekend in the Hamptons. 

Although I love my BFFs that I went out there with dearly, I am SO happy to have a little me time tonight other than my mom dropping Bailey off. Outgoing introvert and all that.

Back when I started this blog (seven years ago WHAT?!), I had some friends that worked out, but it was still mostly my friends I met through fitness that liked to work out. I love that seven years later, it’s not weird at all for me to ask friends to work out with me while we’re away, so I brought my buddy Meg with me. (By the way, when you show up with the tie to your bikini top weirdly missing, a true friend pulls the shoelace out of her sneaker and gives it to you to hold your suit up.)

I’ve really been trying to make an effort to be more active while I’m out in the Hamptons (you know, to balance my beach sloth life), and I love that a lot of NYC studios have offshoots or host special events out east.

Lululemon rented out a gorgeous house in East Hampton, and I was invited to a poolside workout there with Mile High Run Club coach Zack Schares. The class — part of their Hub Seventeen community — consisted of a circuit that built on itself. You’d do one circuit, then repeat and add one more, rinse, repeat, then run half a mile, do circuits again, then run a mile.

How many ways can you do a push-up or a squat, right? I’m always impressed when instructors put new spins on classic moves or combine them in interesting ways. Two of my favorite moves from this class were the three-position burpee and the squat-to-push-up. I linked to a video for the squat push-up but let’s talk about this three-position burpee. 

Position 1: Plank

Position 2: Pike

(Then back to position 1)

Position 3: Squat stance to jump.

10/10, would burpee again.

Stop looking at me, swan!

After the workout was over, we got to chill at the house in the sun for a few hours while we waited for the rest of our friends to get to our share house. I’ve had worse Friday mornings. 

Random aside: I just went to order some Nuun on Amazon and saw this caffeinated Nuun Energy business. Have any of you tried it? I ordered it because I was very intrigued. 

Happy Tuesday, y’all!

It’s my goal to stick to marathon training logs, no matter how badly they suck…and this week’s sucked.

Monday: I had XT on my schedule, so I did one of our Daily Burn workouts at work, since it gave me the ability to sleep in a bit.

Tuesday: I had planned this as a rest day.

Wednesday: I did not plan this as a rest day, but I over-snoozed and had a work event at night, so no run.

Thursday: I WILL RUN IF IT TAKES EVERYTHING I HAVE. I ran 4 miles, and it actually felt awesome despite the intense heat.

Friday: At this point, I’d decided I’d just run all four days of running last week in a row. Not ideal, but it would keep me to my goals. Ran 4 miles with my coworker Tamara in the insane heat. All week, I felt like I’d been coming down with a cold, but I really started feeling crappy Friday morning and felt really dehydrated by the end of my run.

Saturday: I woke up still not feeling great, but told myself I’d at least do the 5 I was supposed to do the next day and 7 if I felt better. Well, I got a mile in and felt AWFUL. Dizzy, dehydrated, so I stopped, defeated and annoyed.

Sunday: I woke up and felt like I’d been run over by a truck, so I went to CityMD and got diagnosed with strep throat. I’m now a few days into antibiotics and just starting to feel better.

Last week sucked, no doubt. But that’s why marathon training cycles are so long, and why I’m working so hard to rest rest rest right now so that I can bounce back as quickly as possible. I’m hoping to do some sort of easier workout tomorrow and get back to running Thursday.

Onward and upward.

What are you training for? How was your week of training last week?