Reporting for duty Dopey training! It has been a fairly busy summer with short work trips, random weekends in NY and Boston, and even a trip to WDW last week. My org's annual conference was scheduled at Rosen Shingle Creek (near Universal) the summer of 2020 so this was our Covid make-up session. July is not normally a time I'd go to the parks, but when in Orlando! It was actually fun as my coworker and her grown son joined me, and they are Disney folk who travel at the same pace and enjoy the same attractions. Between Saturday evening and all day Sunday, we knocked out all four parks! Sadly, the crazy thunderstorm sat on top of us at Studios just long enough on our last night to cancel Fantasmic, but we were all pretty tapped out by that point. Best of all, I survived the heat! I do think it is easier to acclimate from a home climate with a bit of humidity than it was from the dry desert air of Utah.
Between the conference and parks, I logged 45 miles on my feet last week, so I did not feel one bit of guilt for not running. I've been pretty consistent at getting in at least one or two short runs a week through summer. I've been following iFit series on my treadmill for endurance and recovery walks, and doing strength training once a week or so, and I feel good about at least not losing a ton of fitness since the spring.
A few weeks ago, I dug up an old
@DopeyBadger plan from my first Dopey training in 2019, when my fitness and paces were pretty similar to now. I calendared everything out, accounting for some (A LOT OF) travel we have coming up. I'm trying to set myself up for success. Knowing myself and my history, I will not stick to all the training during my longer trips, so I shifted workouts accordingly. I also know I'll walk a lot on those trips, so I won't freak out about "missing" runs and hopefully won't set myself up for injury.
My schedule looks like this, so this was no small feat!
Aug 2 - 3: Boston for Queen of Versailles with Kristen Chenoweth
Aug 8 -12:
D23 Expo Ultimate Fan Event (not likely packing costumes but may just take all my Dress Shop dresses)
Aug 31 - Sept 13: Budapest, Brugges & Scotland
Oct 18 -19: Montreal to see Cyndi Lauper
Oct 30 - Nov 1:
MNSSHP and W&D 5K
Nov 5 -11: Italy
Nov 28 - Dec 8: Florida family TG & WDW
All that said and done,
my official Dopey training starts the week of July 29th and if I stick to what I've got scheduled, I can easily get it all in and be ready by the races.
I had a bit of a scare about a month ago when I suddenly developed plantar fasciitis out of the blue for the first time. I was afraid it was because of my switch to Topo shoes, but I've made some changes to my default around-the-house footwear (got Birkenstocks instead of defaulting to Hoka recovery slides) and it seems to have helped. I'm a tiny bit nervous that my uptick in training will flare it and I'll be on the hunt for new shoes again, but better to find out now I guess.
I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else is doing and also keeping this up a bit better now that I'm back on a training cycle. Thanks for reading!
p.s. I need to decide asap what my costume is going to be for Wine & Dine 5K. I'm doing the MNSSHP the night before and I want to do Muppets, so ideally would love to find something I can wear to both the party and the race. Open to ideas!
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