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Weekly Workout Recap and Giveaway Winner!

This week was pretty interesting, fitness-wise. I decided last week to drop my mileage, give my head a break from too much running, and really focus on cross-training and stretching instead. How did I do?

Monday: 45 Minutes of yoga, 30 minutes of upper body and abwork
Tuesday: 1 hour of P90X Plyometrics
Wednesday: Ran 6 Miles
Thursday: 45 Minutes of Yoga, 30 minutes of upper body and abwork
Friday: 1 hour of P90X Plyometrics
Saturday: Ran 8.5 Miles
Sunday: 45 Minutes of Yoga, Walked 2 Miles

Total Mileage: 14.5 Running (16.5 total)

So...that's about half of my normal mileage, but I felt pretty great about it. Managed to get in 3 yoga sessions, 2 interval workouts (P90X) and 2 strength training sessions in.

This week: I'd like to keep my mileage low. Aiming for around 20 miles this week, and again focus on cross training. Then I'll head back into running mode!

Ok, now I know you're all just sticking around to see if you won a box of BumbleBar Jr's. I entered everything into the random calculator and got......


The 25th comment belongs to.....Run with Jess!

Congrats Jess! Send me an email so you can get your box of BumbleBars. I know these will come in handy, you're probably pretty hungry after your 18 MILE RUN this weekend!!! Definitely stop by her blog if you haven't already, this woman is amazing!

I hope everyone is having an amazing 4th of July today! And if you don't live in America, I guess it's just Monday. Sorry about that. 

What is the tastiest red, white, and blue food concoction you can think of?
I think I would mix up some red strawberries, blueberries, coconut and greek yogurt. Yum!

What are your fitness goals this week? 
Focusing on cross training again, and my goal is to have 3 days where I focus on upper body and get in my push-ups!

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  1. Monika @ Monika's MilesJuly 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM

    What a fantastic week of workouts! I'm actually in love with that schedule, it's so versatile... may have to steal some ideas.

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  2. Emily @ Sweating SugarJuly 4, 2011 at 12:59 PM

    wow, thanks for the insight into your workouts. I think I need to turn mine up a notch!

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  3. JuliaJuly 4, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    awesome! I am loving all the variety you had in your workouts this week!! good work!

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  4. Christina @ The AthletarianJuly 4, 2011 at 3:07 PM

    Plyometrics kill me every time!!! I love the burn! Dang it...I wanted those Bumblebars. I'm going to try them this week for sure! Congrats to the winner!

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  5. Sable WeismanJuly 4, 2011 at 3:24 PM

    You DEFINITELY hit your goals from last week!! Awesome! :)

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  6. ImTheMarigoldJuly 5, 2011 at 9:54 AM

    Ah, running. Now that I can breathe again, literally, I'm hoping to get in two lunch hour runs at work and do my full 12 mile long run on Saturday. If you haven't done so already, Vanessa and fellow commenters, stop over and enter my giveaway, just a few days left!

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