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45 min easy run!
10k jog…
So this recipe is actually intended to get rid of the Matzot eaten at the Seder but I guess it works just as well for chocolate bunnies: 60 min of road cycling
10 min warm up and short hill reps each one with a single leg, you can rest downhill :)
happy holidays!
I ran 4.5 miles yesterday in an attempt to offset my jelly bean consumption today
Jeff T.
4 mile recovery run after yesterday’s 17 miler.
Typical sunday 20km is the best to burn all those chocolate bunnies
20 x 400 m intervals w 200 m rest in between
before easter celebrations i’m doing a 70 min Z2 run on rolling hills. i’m sure i’ll be sneaking some reese’s peanut butter eggs from my kids baskets.
No easter candy consumed yet, but to get a head start I’m doing a snowshoe with over 1,500m of elevation gain. It’ll be a long, slow burn :)
I need to run a 10k later today! My hubby got me an Easter basket and I totally hauled the head of a milk chocolate bunny. RIP bunny you were deeelish! Hope Bertie made you some special cupcakes!
30km Mountainbiking in the neighbourhood.
I hope that’s enough to burn the brunch and a bit of pre-burning the italian diner.
18mile bike ride and a 6 mile run. Curse those chocolate bunnies!
2 hour easy spin on trainer,
I am stuck working at the fire station today. So I will just be doing some jump rope, flipping the heavy tire, hitting it with a sledge hammer, light weight workout and a short jog. Happy Easter everybody.
Too fat to workout
12k easy run today, then a bunny.
Thunderstorms in Texas, so I’ll be spending some quality time with the treadmill… 40 minutes easy pace.
No chocolate bunnies just a couple of Easter Eggs for protein. Then the MC Endurance Challenge 5k Cross Country at the Choctaw Trails in Clinton Mississippi!
4mi run and then calisthenics on some park equipment.
6 mile jog!! But I really love Cadbury creme eggs, ahhggg
Saturday 5 1/2 hour bike
Sunday 30 min easy run and off to work
I ran 7 miles and cycled 20 miles yesterday; today I’m only doing a 30 minute run and I’ll ride if the rain holds off. Pistachios and Endangered Species chocolate keep me going. Happy Easter
Ugh, I need to ride 50 on the trainer. It might get ugly since it will be after brunch. Nothing like some zone 3 pick-ups with a belly full of pancakes and bacon (gluten free of course). Pick me! Pick me!
2 hour ride either on the trainer or outdoors if the rain/snow hold off.
5 mile recovery from yesterday’s long 16 miler.
I have a 90 minutes ride with the middle hour alternating between 75% and 85% FTP.
Has to be a 10k at 7 min mile pace
Has to be a 10k at 7 min/mile pace
Bought a bag of mini Cadbury cream eggs thinking it would be easier to eat only a few to satisfy my Easter sweets craving! WRONG! Should just bought one regular size egg and been done with it!
29k LSD this morning,
ten mile run to get over chocolate and a really good coconut cupcake with raspberry filling.
Swim 30m Monday, Bike 45 Tuesday, Run 30m Wednesday 60/30 Brick Saturday all for those little Cadbury easter eggs Oh and my first tri of the season in may!
To get rid of all the delicious chocolate eggs I’ll be doing a 200k ride over rolling terrain.
So it started last night having to “quality control” the making of 2 Easter egg baskets. That comprised 3 Peeps, a Cadbury egg, 1 recess and a double I’d scotch (no the scotch wasn’t for the Easter baskets but went well with the chocolate.). The morning then started with waffles and syrup and a tall cup of coffee (see previous scotch comment) followed by an Easter egg hunt and a couple of jelly bean chasers.
For training it was a double with a 33.2 mile bike ride into Del Mar, CA to enjoy some of the beach and surf and then finished the workout with a 2.1 mile run in the hills by my house.
Recovery day, so an hour on the elliptical!
In order to combat the effect of too many Robins Eggs. I will be running a 4 set Spartacus:
4 set Spartacus
10 seconds between exercises
60 seconds between sets
1. Goblet Squat
2. Mountaineers
3. Push-ups
4. Dips
5. AB Set
6. Plank
7. Bicep Curl
8. Over Head Press
9. Grave Diggers
10. Burpees (20 reps)
75 minute easy zone 3 run. Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs got me!
0:30 Stretching Session, Legs & Shoulder PT
3:00 Endurance Ride
0:45 Transition Run
0:60 Free Weight Strength Training Session (Shoulder PT)
0:30 Body Weight Core Strength Training Session
Reese’s Peanut Butter Easter Egg. BRING IT!
2 Mile recovery job with the dog and a yoga set in between meals.
10 burpies per peep. I plan to do lots of burpies today! :-)
10 burpies per peep. I plan to do lots of burpies today!
2h ride put in the cold with 30min of tempo work
I will be doing a 1.5 hour recovery bike… Oceanside 70.3 was yesterday…
15km cycle and 6km, slowly coming back from injury so only a chocolate egg and apple pie and cheescake to replenish:)
I just had a baby on Tuesday.. So I think I’ll stick to a brisk walk in the morning.. And then we’ll go and watch a Triathlon in the afternoon… That counts right?!?! ;)
7 days a week at the gym. Maybe 1 Easter egg today
HIIT!!!! With kettlebells . Nuff said
If I hadn’t managed to injure my Achilles last weekend, I would be doing a 7km run while I continue to work myself up to my first 10km
12 mile run at 6:15 pace or better
jelly bellies will be the death of me…
“Big day” yesterday is allowing me to eat all the bunnies I want today.
Swim 2700 meters. Main set ladder 100,200,300,400,300,200,100. First half swam at t-pace. 2nd half swam faster than first half.
Bike: 30 WU, 2.5 hrs zone two steady pace.
Run: 45 mins as 15 mins at half marathon pace + 30 seconds. Remainder if run at half marathon pace.
2 MX motos on The track, watching The cardio with The wahoo blue HR for The iPhone and tomorrow a 20km mtb ride to recover and start The week.
Easy half hour ride, to hopefully get rid of my hangover from drinking last night.
10k run + 1 hour on the turbo. and all of this because of those evil gummi bears…
10k easy then more chocolate bunnies
Bicycle Fartlek – 20 mile ride with friend on a route we both know. Take it in turns to shout a landmark and then race to there. The ‘efforts’ can be anything from 100 metres to a couple of miles. Occasional truces called when we need to go easy!
Finally nice enough here in the northwest to take the bike outside! Long ride this morning before over indulaging on Easter goodies!
A 5k inbetween my Easter ham naps.
125k road ride, with ~1,600 ascent, yesterday in preparation for today’s chocolate indulgences. Will be doing hill repeats tomorrow…..now that’s how to spend Easter Monday morning!
A 70miles ride taking in as many hills as possible as some last minute preparation for next weekend’s ‘Lakeland Loop’ Sportive in the Lake District.
Nice easy 60 minute run around Hyde park, if the calves hold up…
I will be doing a 2.5 hour trainer ride. This ride will rid me of all the chocolate I will consume this weekend.
60 mile ride, easy pace
Reese’s released a new “deluxe” egg which ups the peanut butter to chocolate ratio to borderline diabetic…managed 10 gorgeous miles on rolling trails yesterday in Jefferson National Forest. Have about 7 more weeks of trail focused training leading up to The North Face Endurance Challenge in Washington DC in early June!
Easy. 10k in Deauville on the “planches”.
It’s Passover for me, so I’m eating Manishewitz Dark Chocolate Rasberry “Artificially Flavored” Jell Bars……..yuck!!! Each square is 65 calories, 3 gms of fat. Don’t ask how many Ive eaten, but I will be doing Sufferfest Blender later today (It’s a 1:40 workout thats awesome!!).
23km run in the freezing Norwegian weather.
20km in forest, 2,5 hours
I did a 140km bike training yesterday (on the same course of the ‘Tour The Flanders’ as the pro’s today). I burned more than enough calories to eat some chocolate bunnies today :)
but tomorrow i’ll be doing a 60min fartlek run.
Big run and swimm
Big run and swimming
run and swimming
A 2 mile hill run to pay for the food
Swim off the Kona Pier, hopefully with the dolphins then a little 5-10k jaunt down Alii Drive.
I did 3.5 painful hours on the trainer yesterday, followed by a half-hour run, so that I may enjoy two, make that three, IPA’s with my heaping helping of leg of lamb today.
Nice, easy 5K recovery run after yesterday’s 57 mile bike loop.
Run from the fridge to the couch.
Nothing like early morning track repeats on Monday morning to correct for a weekend of indulgence and get the week started on the right track!
1:15 easy bike ride
Hard 1 hr TT on the bike Saturday and easy 8 mile run Sunday. Happy Easter Ray!
7.5 mile run. Too many brownies!
Recovery crawl after 70.3 Cali yesterday!
As I live in Belgium, country where chocolate is at its best, I did eat some chocolate easter eggs today. I have already done 1h15 workout at the gym today where I did 15 min rowing and 1h of strength workout. I still feel lik having some energy left though so planning a 30 to 45 min indoor cycling session this evening. Happy easter to everyone and happy workouts!
Ate 2 Lindt bunnies and 2 Big chocolate eggs. Great fun , had to swim 2k and spend 120mins on my turbo to cancel them out. Not so great fun.
3h grinding base ride in the freezing german “spring”.
Ate 2 Lindt bunnies and 2 Big choco eggs. Great fun, had to swim 2k and spend 120mins on my turbo to cancel them out. Not so great fun.
20 km @ «Boston» Pace !
Ate 2 Lindt bunnies and 2 Big choco eggs. Great fun, swim 2k and spend 120mins on my turbo to cancel them out. Not so great fun.
easy 45 min run
For me, I had a 10km race simulation because there were no races nearby. It was highly needed after all chocolate eggs at work this week and the huge easter meal today :-)
Eester Sunday 30K Long Run. Chocolate bunnies are post run recovery food for a day :)
10 k really fast
Run: accelerations (5 x 100m from 50% to 80% effort) + alternate between 5 mins z2 steady / 5 mins z3 steady for 30 mins.
Bike: 30 mins Z1
…followed immediately by chocolate milk + chocolate (Purdy’s!) bunny
Long long indoor trainer ride while watching the awesome Spartacus win Flanders… Dark chocolate mini eggs well deserved after!
Happy Easter Ray
I might switch things up a bit and go play ultimate frisbee in the park today.
6 Mile Fartlek, first run after a week off with a niggle in my knee and eating too many hot cross buns.
One hour easy endurance run should help burn off those three sugar cookies, 2 Herschey kisses, and one Minnie Reese cup!
6-7 mile run in the Pacific Northwest sunshine, for real Ray!
…running 12 km uphill…hard work
50k bike ride to get rid of all those Caramilk easter eggs!
10-15 km biking
15 km biking
Regeneration walk after Saturday crazy race. Testing my new rain jacket – it was raining all the day :)
60min ride outside
1500m swim
Eat 3 Cadbury eggs
A couple of days on the ElliptiGO and a six mile run should do it. If not, I’ve got the Salt Lake City Marathon to burn off what the ElliptiGO misses.
3×20′ SS ride and 30′ easy run
In the afternoon ran 5 km on the beach.
10K preemptive run before the turkey dinner. Actually PR’d it, too!
50 min. training of the easter ham ;)
I’ll go up in the mountains near my city here in Italy and try to run on a nice trail that I know. I say “try” because it depends on how much snow I’ll find. If there’ll be too much, I’ll switch to a nice walk and run the next day, when I’ll be back home :)
1hr tempo run with negative split
150km bike ride with tempo intervals.
1 hour ‘time trial’ to [partially] counter the Wispa Easter Egg
3mi easy Z1 then 2x1mi Z4 (4′) & 2x.5 Z4 (4′) . Total 8.4mi in the books.
Ok, ok. So Easter chocolate needs special treatment. And family lunch at 15 km from home add antoher cal amounts but a solution too. The best treatment I know is then: running 2 × 15 km easy, chocolate & lunch between.
Need to reflect for the Easter lunch no 2, tomorrow :+)
A twenty mile loop ride: Eight of the middle nine miles are an average 8% grade, for a total climb of over 2,500′. I don’t do it fast, but I do get it done. It should help offset the 1,400 of Reese’s chocolate peanut-butter eggs I ate the last two days…
Hard 10k…does the new Shiner beer count as candy?
have to run at least a 10K to burn the cals from 2 Easter bunnies.
90 min bike and 30 min run to get the fat out of my body…
Hoping to get in a nice long run once the food has digested
Hoping to get in a nice long run once the food has digested.
I’ll bike to work on Tuesday, 15k each way.
Last long run before Boston (17 miles miles to combat 17 peeps)!!!!!
Who needs gu or cliff bloks when you could do a 40mi ride with your peeps? I do and did. Recovery? Chocolate milk with Reeces eggs.
Ocean swim followed by 50km on the bike to get me race ready for the club champs next weekend. No energy bars required, lets hope the chocolate in my jersey pockets doesn’t melt too much though…..
I’ll be going for a mere 5K. I’m still starting off with this, but I might not be doing this exercise at all if I wouldn’t have come here for a gadget review. You kind of got me started on this. Thanks!
And yep, I had way too many weird Swedish Easter candies.
I was running sag/support for a CCSD women’s training camp in Warrenton today, so I had to ride after everyone had gone home.
Got in about 90min of zone 1/zone 2 cycling. Felt great to get out on the bike after sitting in a car all day.
1250m swim, and 10k run in the evening. Not much chocolate to burn off, but more of yesterdays bbq lunch and dinner :(
intake. 5Kcal . cookies, cake, candy, and deviled eggs…
output 3Kcal running up Harney Peak from horse thief lake about 17 miles round trip with 2000′ elevation gain.
20 min loop 3 times, build by 10-20 sec/mile from one loop to the nex.
Preemptive glycogen depletion in advance of numerous chocolate coconut eggs!
Run some stinky 40k on Saturday followed by a 20K on Sunday. might be able to offset the Easter eggs I stole my daughter over the weekend :)
Insanity. Phase II.
It wasn’t the chocolate bunnies that did me in (and that’s unusual). It was the homemade lemon meringue pie and pizzelles (plural) that got me!! My penance will be a 4 mile interval run followed by an hour workout at the gym.
3 hours of looooooong treshold interals, along the coast of the Gaspe peninsula. Awesome! Got a chocolate fix for recovery :)
I ran my first half marathon on Sunday. I was aiming for sub 2 hours and did it in 1:59:07. This was to offset the chocolates and easter eggs i was going to consume.
Running the 2XU Compression half marathon in Singapore on Easter Sunday – earn the chocolate!
Oh man…too stuffed to make it out tonight. Tomorrow may be a two up strength and cardio day at least 40 min on the treadmill!
with my girlfriend, I ate a quarter of a cake. Little did I know that it was a cake with 400 calories per 13th of a cake. Let’s say I didn’t actually eat dinner that night.
I tried to make up the excess calories with my usual dragon boat paddling practice, along with a 15 km run……but I’ve pretty much relagated those calories as weight gained. :-(
I’m weak when it comes to swedish fish. This is going to cost me…… 20 x 30s x 30s sprints
11 mile run. Cadbury mini eggs
I will do about an hour ride through some beautiful countryside near my house.
5 minute walk around the blog. srsly.
40mi bike.
40mi bike. T’was good til it rained. Then t’was wet.
Early morning 65km road ride around the ocean peninsula.
I ate like a pig at my mama’s. Will work extra hard this week to burn excess 2000 cals.
14mi bike with Fremont hill. First outside bike for me this year. No candy was eaten, but I did an easter egg hunt where cans of beer replaced some ofthe eggs.
this is an awesome treat. Could really use a 910 or 610 for my half marathon training. To off set my chocolate bender strength training follow by a 4 mile run monday.
Just did 4.7 mi trying to get away from that space alien impersonating a chocolate bunny.
Tempo ride during the week (wed) then 30mi group ride next sunday!
15 mile bike ride from those cadbury creme mini eggs..Delicious
I will be doing two workouts this weekend to cancel the Easter peanut covered M&Ms I ate at my PTs office on Friday. Saturday I did a 35 minute ride on my trainer with a focus on maintaining 90RPMs. Since I am returning from an injury I will follow that with my 25 minute walk/run in increments of 3min walk to 2 min run. Sunday we took our first outdoor ride for the year. We rode about 13-14 miles at a slow steady pace with little elevation. Oh and all of this is followed by lots of icing on all the injured body parts. LOL. Happy Easter, DC Rainmaker to you and the Girl.
3 mile tempo run, first one outdoors this year!
2 hr ride with 4 x 9 min intervals followed by active recovery.
I just won an Easter tradition competition I have been doing with my buddies for a number of years. Easter 10k? No.. Bike ride? No, try again… PEEP EATING CONTEST! Thats right, you know those nasty artificially flavored high-fructose infused, brightly colored, marshmallow chicks? I just downed more of those than I’d like to admit. All for the sake of bragging rights and a huge chocolate bunny trophy (which is already missing his half of his body).
For penance I will be doing a strenuous run/bike brick tomorrow morning followed by a visit to my dentist.
I’ll actually be taking the day off after a duathlon brick on Saturday with a buddy.
At least 4 hours on the bike this week. Hopefully outside :)
I started the day with a painful 5 mile run at sunrise….If I wake up Monday, then a 20 mile ride before dinner.
1 hour swim sunday am
1 hour swim
Snowing here, so i”ll be doing 3x20s on the trainer.
4 miles – getting ready to my second half marathon and preparing for the Chicago Marathon.
Easy 5 mile run to offset chocolate covered pretzels with Easter sprinkles.
Dark chocolate Cadbury mini eggs. Time to run. With the double stroller!
3 hours outside on the bike to burn off those Cadbury chocolate eggs.
My first hot yoga session. One hour of sweating with a bunch of strangers to the point of passing out.
A steady hour on the turbo to burn off all the chocolate I keep eating to “save” my children :). I’m taking the bullet!!!
45 minuterun downhill and uphill with already sore legs.
An 80 km hike Heaphy Track over 2 days in NZ
A child care brick session; 30 mins run followed by 6 hours of crawling baby management.
20sec short and sharp Easter Hill Sprints on the Bike.
I skied out to the Williwaw Lakes, 15.9 miles round trip.
For me it’s not the chocolate, but the hot cross buns that need to be worked off!
Today’s long session was 28km in 2:03 comprising 5km warm up then 4 x 4km at marathon pace (4:10 min/km) with 1km recovery in 4:35 then 3km warm down.
I’ve just spent a week in Malaga, which was a nice chance for my usual cold suroundings in Denmark. However, I did my first outdoor run down there which I wasn’t completely satisfied with. You can see it here:
link to runkeeper.com
So today I’ve done a short 5K run indoors and substituted some of my training time with finding good outdoor routes, so I can get some K’s in the legs before my marathon the 19th of may.
30mile bike ride!!
30mile bike ride
Long weekend camping. Beer not candy. Hard swim on Monday.
No easter bunnies for me, but a 10 mile run to run off the chocolate easter egg
30 minute Fartlek run. Munching chocolate eggs while sprinting is hard work.
I train 5 to 6 days per week to cure my aching back, I have 3 bulging lumbar discs. I have been doing this for going on 3 months, and am loosing weight at a slow rate, but gaining muscle adn am now 40-50 % better than I was 3 months ago. I lap swim 40 to 50 minutes at a crack, Elliptical use at the same time frame, AND back and abdominal strenghening exercises. I know, QUITE WORDY!!!
Just finished my Monday CF WOD. will be working off those deviled eggs this week in my half iron training
As I am only a beginner I just completed this morning my scheduled workout: 3 times 3′ walking+ 15′ running. Not much I know but some Easter calories got burned anyway :)
Going to put in a long slow run on Monday followed by Insanity DVD sessions.
Warm-up, Weights, Wrun.
No bunnies, just jelly beans.
1.5h swim. Focus on technique. Afterwards a well deserved bullbe-bath :)
i intend to run 16k
Ray, Longest run of the year with emphasis on the S of LSD.
A hour of running hills around the house. I still ate too much candy
I did my long bike ride–3 hrs, 45 min!! My easter candy was a Reese’s egg! :)
I will be running 5 miles for a LSD run =) because marathon training has to start somewhere, even if it’s only 5 miles
90 Z2 bike ride
My usual 8km run, followed by 3 reps of push-up of 30 in each rep, and to wrap it up with about 20-25 ab crunch using TRX….. Just to get some all round mini-workout. Cheers.
The Candy: homemade chocolate mousse pie with oreo cookie crust, coconut cake shaped like a bunny and a couple random jelly beans here and there.
The Treatment: Sunday was 45 minutes on the trainer. Monday was 1000 yards then 3 mile run then 45 minute cross fit class.
2 hours offroad ride with my girl and a couple of her friends, and whilst they got themselves ready and went out for lunch I went for a 90min offroad run and enjoyed watching the Tour of Flanders.
Due to recovery from surgery, nothing :(
I’ll be swimming getting ready for state meets in 2 weeks to burn off any chocolates I had eaten :)
I just finished a 10k tempo run! And I had two delicious reeses rabbits!
I think I’ll work off the easter candy by doing the Cadbury Egg Mile (similar to the Beer Mile except you eat a cadbury egg after every lap).
100k on the bike in bright sunshine, low wind and +5 degrees.
2400 yard swim this evening. With a few 2 x400’s at increasing pace. Not too much candy for me this year as the wife decided to go high class and get See’s candy for the kids. More $$, less candy (they’re teenagers so they like the higher quality stuff), that means that the kids are more leery of me jacking the candy.
A very painful 10 miles were ran/walked to make up for the Aero Lambs which were consumed.
25 mile recovery bike ride.
Easy 5k to start Rotterdam marathon taper before heading to the airport for a transatlantic flight tomorrow
Run – 11 miles, fast paced (for me) – 1 hr 30 mins.
After consuming a cadbury mini egg, or two, I went out and ran a 4.4-mile fartlek. Basically, I went 90% effort for 1 minutes with 3 mins moderate effort in between.
I did my local 10k Easter Sunday run, to offset all the lindt chocolate bunnies i ate.
Hi, as a workout to burn some of the easter dessert I`ve been out in the sunshine and carried out my favorite work out. Running and at the same time teaching my daughter to bicycle. Great workout!
A few friends and I, from our residence at Varsity, finished a 10 day 1380km cycling trip to raise awareness for mental health this Easter. Wish I had some candy…
3hr tempo ride. Those peanut M&M’s are more addictive than crack!
100km ride at the DFW
3 hour ride outside on the cross bike… going to be a cold one too since temperatures are still around freezing and the wind is howling!
1.5 hour ride will definitely not override the amount of candy consumed yesterday :( this week… lots of training and only bunny food… carrots and the green stuff… :) haha… Happy Easter :)
Bike 30km on my indoor trainer. Coming back from PFS injury.
45 minutes doing laps in the pool in the morning before work and a 5k run after work
21K friday, 10K Saturday, 10K Sunday…. 10K Monday….
40km MTB
I haven’t eaten anything Easter related, so no need to burn more calories than other days. Today’s workouthas been a 40 minutes run in the treadmill that I didn’t enjoy at all. I had planned a long run but it was raining and a little bit colder than expected so I changed my mind, but next time I’d better run under the rain.
Repeats. Lots of repeats
1h easy run tommorow
1,5 h on my bike.
Rest day
14 mile trail run to offset a bag of small Ghirardelli white chocolate squares.
Repeats. Lots of repeats. Would be helpful if I had a gadget to tell me how many ;)
Ran in the Columbia River Gorge with my dog up to Larch Mtn, OR (snow included) for 4-hours, 76-degrees, so unusual for this time of year in Oregon. What a beautiful day! My son invited us for hamburgers/hot dogs, we declined and had grilled chicken.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur.
With the steady diet of ham and pizza topped with Easter candy I will be in need of some brick training so an hour ride indoors followed by a 5 mile run!
1 hour in the pool. Thanks knee pain.
9 mile bike ride with my son through Garden of the Gods.
did a very easy run of 3.5 miles Sunday. Had a very hard workout Saturday, and needed a easy day
18K run, longest of the year so far since breaking my ankle last year
Easter splurge the latest in a year of splurging and lack of working out. From half ironman finisher to couch potato.Wrong direction but if anyone needs the training plan I have it for sale.
Back on the wagon this week. 5 swims, 4 runs and hopefully trainer ride or two.
2 hour zone 2 run prior to the Easter feast, but following too much candy
Five (5) tempo run.
5m run prepping for my first 21K on the 21
3 mile run & 25 mile ride. M&M eggs
60 minutes on homemade emotion rollers
10k on Saturday; Sunday after church 3 mile run & 25 mile ride….
M&M eggs, lots of them…
40 minute tempo run should do it!
I’m on track for bike intervals. Following pyramid schedule.
Swim + Run brick – figure I’ll float and roll with the chocolate assitance
2.5 hour bike followed by an easy 30 minute run. Managed to squeeze in just under 50 miles on the bike and almost 4 miles on the run. Oh and the candy? You name it, I probably ate it…
4 x 1k ,1 min rest time
1 hour and 20 minute run at race pace!
My first short run in awhile since coming back from a small surgery. Excited!
2×20 on trainer!
A few laps around town on the new Specialized Roubaix! #30DaysOfBiking
Not so much candy just an abundance of ham…
Sunday is my rest day for the week, today was:
2 mile warmup – easy
3 x 1 mile – T pace (6:51) + 1 min rest
4 x .25 mile – R pace (5:48) + 3 min rest
2 mile cool down – easy
I ran 6 miles to burn off the Red Chile Chicken Enchiladas and two Coronas. What can I say, I live in Arizona
Riding up Lefthand Canyon to redeem myself for the can-dy full of hoppy goodness.
Double brick!
3×20 minutes tempo/ss on the trainer!
Had the triple brick / long run weekend… Not so much chocolate, but made up with some serious bacon
Sadly no chocolate in store, but the next big thing on my todo list is an hour of volleyball!
6 mile run at zone 2, followed by core work using foam roller.
Tuesday once the kids are at school a nice long walk/run. Glad spring break is nearly over so I can exercise.
Tomorrow I think we’ll go for a family walk
5 KM steady state
4-6 200M intervals
I am attempting this.
link to members.ozemail.com.au
~90 km mostly no trails, < 4000m elevation gain and under 48 hours. Although the plan is to do it in less.
I’m gonna ride all the climb within 80km from my home.
I’ve got the same bunnies, and kinder surprise eggs and lots of little eggs
Lots of Cadbury Creme Eggs will cost me a 8 mile hard run
I’ll be biking up Mt. Diablo!
I will be running again on Tuesday, 5km into work, then 5km back to a pool to do a 2km session. No work over the “long” weekend as I am curled up in bed sick with flu and eating entirely too much of my large Cadbury egg!
My workout will be complete recovery after racing Oceanside 70.3. Likely eating Cadberry cream eggs or egg shaped Whoppers while kicking the legs up watching March madness on TV.
I’ll be busting my butt on muddy Montana spring trails trying to come out of a winter funk! FR910XT please?
workout :
1st day of canoe polo championship : outdoor and about 0°C. 3 matchs to play so “2 times” wet clothes to dress
i think we’ll burn some extra Calories (easter egg or else)
thija
I’ll be doing a beautiful ride up Hawk Hill in San Francisco and will be treated with an amazing view of the city.
6 mile tempo run to counter all the chocolate bunnies that will be devoured.
Still haven’t decided yet… But some running is definitely on the list.
Too much chocolate will mean a run on the treadmill melting snow makes it almost impossible to run outside
An 8 mile easy run to balance the basket full of chocolate and peeps that my 11-month-old daughter isn’t allowed to eat. . .
I have never liked chocolate so I don’t have any Easter candy to burn up. I did a 24km run yesterday and a 50km bike ride today.
Tomorrow it’s my rest day, no running or crosstrainig, some strech exercises and trigger point therapy!
Did my routine run 8km, along the river Main, close to Frankfurt. Could resist to the choco-bunnies so far, but it’s a question of time. They are everywhere….
15 mile taper run before Boston.
Running, 15km at least. It’s white outside, cold and lots of snow – I’m not sure it’s easter….
I just ate an entire Terry’s chocolate orange and feel sick… I too will be biking up Mt Diablo if the weather holds out (Thunderbolts and lightning at the moment)
60m slow run, to recover i’ll eat the kids fondant eggs they don’t like while watching one of the greatest cycling races “Tour of Flanders”
11.25 mile run to lead into half marathon taper week next week. Running my second half in a six week period and have lost 60 lbs since I began running at age 36.
Easter candy culprit? Jelly beans. Lots and lots of them and even used a handful as fuel on said 11.25 miler.
light 30min trainer session to prevent chocolate bunny rolls
No training. Have to recover from pneumonia. :-(
I have a 4 day tour race coming up starting on Thursday. I think that will burn off all the extra Easter calories.
link to tourtamalta.com
Just started a gym membership… so its going to be a short and intense interval session on the treadmill followed by lower back stretches and basic upper body circuit.
It’s still snowing in the swiss alps this morning so it’ll be a 1h30 cross-country skiing training for me, to burn off these dark chocolate bunnies with caramelised hazelnuts (as well as the homemade brioche bunnies we made for breakfast)
I just realised that I’m entered in a 15 km trail run in a month and I’ve done no training! So, this week I’m planning running to work two days this week. It’s 8 km each way, so that’s a start!
I have a half marathon a few days after Easter. So I will let the chocolate bunny calories stay with me for the day.
The standard at Easter is to go over to a local cousin’s house that’s about 10.5 miles away and have brunch / kids easter egg hunt. The cousin makes this really good pastry called a “Tea Ring”. It’s like a giant round Bear Claw, only tall like a bundt cake. Said cousin only makes her Tea Ring on Easter. If you miss it you wait another year. It’s packed with buttery calories so I leave an hour early and run over to their house and meet the family there. If I run fast enough I can get an early warm piece before the rest of the family arrives and then have my normal two pieces with everyone else.
So my workout will be 10.5 miles at near race pace. (Pastry pace?)
I’ll do a 16k run to get to my parents house, so I can then indulge without regrets…
Having a day-off after having some 170 TSS:
cycling: 10 km @ 150 W + 20 km @ 170-180 W + 10 km @ 220-230 W + 20 km @ 180 W
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running 4 x (5 min @ HR 165-170 + 10 min @ 155-160).
A quick 4-mile dash along the Hudson River in NYC — an out-and-back starting from Columbia University and following the swim leg of the NYC Triathlon.
Was in the middle of a chocolate bar from Trader Joe’s when I came across this page … I haven’t even touched my supply of real Easter candy yet!
a 7-8 mile run to undo all the chocolate eggs i ate already.
I’m doing a sprint tri on easter morning. Not sure that’s a long enough distance to work off all the chocolate though!
A 5 mile hill run to pay for those Reese’s Peanutbutter Eggs.
2.5hr negative split run in the heat
I am already eating chocolate and having a rest day, so I am not even trying to override any Easter-associated candy.
I’m starting running again now that there’s less ice on the streets. Going to use a phone app with intervals, first and easiest workout there is to walk 5 minutes (warmup) then 8 repeats of 1 min running, then 5 minutes cooldown. I’ve been too lazy this winter, sadly.
At least one hour trail run and trying to find Easter bunny’s stash :).
I’ll be jumping out of a plane about 5 times, work that reese’s bunny right off!
I’ll do a 40k mountain bike ride with my girlfriend and a delicius M&M for the trail.
Just an easy run pushing my daughter in the jogging stroller…to burn off the Easter candy I stole from her basket!
5 km easy running.
I’ll be running 2.4km in my regular daily workout routine.
I’m going to my attempt my first run to work – 7km – in order to pick up my bike from the office.
My usual training ride plus a few more miles.
I’m planning to run a 10k on Monday. Hope to properly digest all the chocolate ’til then!
6 mile run!
I’ll be adding some threshold running to my 20mi run tomorrow. That should take care of those bunnies…
I will be partaking in several intense lunchtime rides. That’s it. For this week…
There is no tradition of Easter here in Thailand.
Anyway “Mango with Sticky Rice”- April favorite dessert in Thailand is the cause of my workout.
Today(Sunday) I’m going to have a long run 23Km. Hope it helps.
Run 5k – just like I do every monday night
no chocolate bunnies left for me :( “someone” ate them all…. as for the workout to burn those off it will be 8X400 of sprinting and 3X35min for my runs this week plus 2 sprinting workout… that’ll do!
3 hour group bike ride.
10k should cover the bunny… It’s all of the other indulgences I have to figure out how to balance! Happy Easter
Nice hilly brick session in prep for IM Lanzarote in May.
6 mile run!
16 kms planned today
Roughly 30 miles on the bike – preceded by some Creme Eggs
Sunday’s activity – Riding up Glendora Mountain Road here in Southern California.
I must ride off all of the holiday chocolate goodies. But, at least it was all dark chocolate.
Happy Easter, everyone!
2hs on the Kickr for me
8 miler last long run prior to Charlottesville Marathon next Saturday
Putting my trainer in front of the TV and riding along with the Tour of (ned-didly) Flanders.
Had a 13k slow run yesterday and another 15k slow run on Monday.
4 broken miles, though I don’t get to know until Monday ownexactly they are split up.
10 mile training run.
Monday is a holiday here in Austria, so a nice long run, probably up Kahlenberg just north of Vienna.
10k in a few hours!! It’s been a while since I’d completed a 10k for the last time but now I’m pretty close to accomplishing it again. Can’t let some chocolate eggs get in the way!
a 20 km run in the spring-cold in Holland…
A tempo ride on the trainer for an hour….should help combat the joys of helping the kids eat all the eggs :-)
Still have snow on the ground here, so XC-skiing for some 2 hours, or approx. 35 km (22 mi). The Easter candy I enjoyed was nougat in a real eggshell: link to en.wikipedia.org
since pneumonia has taken hard workouts out of the equation…a forrest walk on monday with the kids and wife most suffice.
No easter bunnies for me, but a lot of matzah instead. nursing metatarsal pain in my left foot, i’ll be going for a bike ride hopefully.
Two hour easy run followed by an hour in the pool later on.
12km easy running, it is going to be a flat course. Since real hills do not excist in denmark…
2h30 PWR Z2 – No bunnies this year, just a couple of boring slabs :(
12km run and an arvo swim.
Swiss chocolates (Lindt) did the damage today!
I’ll use my standard weekend bike program in spring.
2-3 hours road biking if the snow disappears again.
12 km easy running with 5 short hill sprints
This Easter I’ve had more than the chocolate to contend with. After getting married yesterday there’s been plenty of food and drink! There’s a spa at our hotel and I’m planning on jumping on the treadmill later to try and burn off some of the excess.
a 1 hr fat burning bike ride and than 3 x 15 sets of muscle crunching weight training.
Going to ignore the heavy rain and go out for a 100km ride. That should help get rid of the excess chocolate!
I’m doing a big Easter smörgåsbord lunch and then, after a couple of hours rest, the plan is to do a slow 15 km run in the sun, going around the next island.
I’m going to be hitting the treadmill for some intervals.
Well I did a 95 ride out to the coast of Belgium yesterday. And today I have an easy run on my schedule, as Easter marks the beginning of my tapering for the Paris Marathon next week!
Chocolate egg, chocolate chicken, chocolate bunny. In various sizes and flavours.
To balance all that, i should probably run 2 marathons or so, but given the shape I’m in and the arctic temperatures that seem to last forever, i’ll stick with an easy 60 min stroll in the woods for today.
Half an hour hi-pace 5 min intervals, followed by some light cycling. And this only to burn those calories from that very tasty almond-marzipan filled bread my wife made for Easter.
I think I need to slow down on my chocolate today. Since I am recovering from an injury, training is just in small portions. Today It Will Be 6+12+18minutes of jogging.
I’ve been pretty bad today with my Malteaser bunnies (seriously try them) so a water front Sydney run tomorrow morning if my aching legs let me after a hike in the Blue Mountains today.
12 km easy run in snow, ice and asphalt melting beneath them (spring is coming indeed!). Chocolate eggs left over from kids (at some point they become interested only in surprise goodies in the eggs, and not the chocolate itself) in the reason.
2 hours on the trainer today. Too much chocolate…
Not eating any Chocholate – it’s bad for you :)
But tommorow will bring a 60mile ride.
Yesterday was a 10.5km steady run during my travels through Beautiful NSW, Australia. Nowhere near enough to counter my Turkish Delight Egg consumption. I’d love a power meter!
5k in a smooth 6:30 pace on Monday! Gotta keep it down after Easter celebrations!
got to be hill repeats on a 20% gradient climb(can’t wait).
The sweets will probably be bunny’s(evil smile) and jelly beans. You can’t beat dem jelly beans.
5km race pace run as part of a half marathon training plan. Dark chocolate milk and chocolate Easter bunnies for pudding! Yum