Today my running workout was part errand-run and part Salt-Lake-Marathon-course-test run. For the first part of my workout, I ran up to the Salt Lake Running Company to pick up some new shoes in preparation for the marathon, which is three weeks away! The second half of my workout consisted of running from Big Cottonwood Park, over to Murray-Holladay Road, up to Holladay Boulevard, over to 6200 South and down to Highland Drive (i.e., miles 10.50-14.25 of the Salt Lake Marathon Course). I covered a total distance of 15.3 miles at an easy pace (i.e., 8:14 minutes per mile).
In addition, today was my three-peat of day nine (i.e., week 3, day 3) of the Push-up Challenge. I accomplished a total of 135 push-ups, but again I had to do six sets to complete these push-ups. These sets included 22, 27, 20, 20, a max out of 24, and an extra set of 22 push-ups. As a result, since I’m not making much progress with increasing the amount of push-ups I can do consecutively, next week I’m planning to do the following three things: just repeat day nine of the Push-up Challenge, do one max set of push-ups on the off days, and do butterflies in the weight room. In addition to push-ups, I was able to complete 200 sit-ups. | 