November in review: Highest volume and run mileage in a long time!

I love it when I add up my numbers for the month and I'm pleasantly surprised. I only had a couple of days here and there during which I did not workouts at all, mostly when I had plans or just needed a day off. I put in a solid couple of days over Thanksgiving break and I did a birthday triathlon, which helped with some of that solid volume.

I also managed to run 65 miles this month! I was so happy to see that I was in the late 50s by the end of the month and I wanted to hit that milestone. The last run of the month was on the 30th and my husband was running an errand, so I found a new series on Netflix (Schitt's Creek — HILARIOUS) and settled into the treadmill. And, best of all, my knee held up.

Running miles for the last 13 months.

I didn't get to ride outside at all. We pretty much went straight from summer to winter and missed fall completely. I got a couple of runs in outside, but sadly the bike is probably inside for the winter.

Not a bad showing.

Overall, my month turned out to be:

Bike: 12 times, all on the trainer, for 177.57 trainer miles in about 14 hours. Nothing special here — just a lot of Trainer Road interval rides.

Run: 12 times, 6 on the road and 6 on the treadmill, for 65 miles in about 12 hours. Again, nothing special — just building up slowly and steadily so I don't re-injure anything.

Weights: 6 times of 3 videos, 2 heavy/body sessions and 1 barre class, for about 6 hours. This averages out to about 1.5 per week which isn't terrible. I can't be too mad.

PT: 11 times in about 7:30. Eh, this should be closer to 2-3 hours per week. I keep working at this.

Swim: 39 minutes for my birthday triathlon, which worked out to be 1200 yards of drills.

Yoga: 2 sessions in about a half hour. Eh, again — this should be about 1 hour per week. Something else to keep working at.

Total: 44 sessions in about 40.5 hours. WOW! I haven't had that kind of volume in a while. Thank the Thanksgiving holiday, thank wanting to do something special for turning 39, thank my boring life and desire to be a hermit.

I am trying not to gain 100 pounds with the holidays coming up, so hopefully this will give me a good base to hitting December hard. Or, at least, hard enough where I can fend off some of the stress without creating more for myself. I do plan on enjoying wine and cookies in the near future; I just plan on enjoying some runs and rides, too. =)