Weekend and today's OTF

This past weekend I was visiting family in Missouri and decided to work out while I was there. In my previous life, this would have meant a break from working out, or maybe a few easy treadmill workouts, while on vacation. But nope, now FOMO and how good I feel all day after a workout makes me want to go.

At first the girls at the St. Charles studio ignored me, but then once I told them I was visiting and needed to fill out paperwork, etc they were nice. The coach came over and asked me if I was new or visiting and introduced herself so I appreciated that. The workouts were both 3G (3 groups - alternate between weights, rower, and treads), which I don't always get to do and a good change. I did make the mistake of eating breakfast too close to workout time, so I was feeling a little nauseous on Sunday so I had to slow down. You would have thought Imo's pizza, toasted ravioli, and J in the B tacos on Friday night would have made me feel sluggish or sick on Saturday morning, but amazingly they did not! Eating healthy when I'm back in STL is not one of my strengths, but at least this time I stayed away from White Castle.

Today's workout was one of my favorites! We did strength and power on the floor and then some strength and endurance on the treads/rower. I did 20s on chest press, which is awesome because we were also doing them tempo/slowly. I do not love pop squats (squat then jump while turning to side) but it was only 6 at a time so I can handle that. My paces/watts on treads and rower were good. I felt really accomplished after this workout.

I think my favorite combo is strength on the floor, power on the rower, and then endurance on treads. The coach in St. Charles said we are doing a 23 minute run for distance tomorrow for National Running Day so I am SUPER excited for that. My goal is 2.5 miles. After I consulted with my running paces chart on the refrigerator (yes, I'm nerdy like that), I think I need to do between 6.6 and 6.8 to get that. That would also put me close to my new 5K goal time (if I were to keep going), so this will be a good test.