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A 6 mile run to get ready for the upcoming week.
60min recovery run!!
Jelly beans in my pocket for an eight mile run. Did an extra mile on yesterday’s run in anticipation of loss of my caloric restriction conviction!
After raiding my 2 young children’s Easter baskets of 8 Cadbury creme eggs, multiple handfuls of jelly beans, and one VERY large chocolate bunny filled with peanut butter, (Have to get my wife to stop buying this stuff) I will be attempting to run 10 miles at a pace of 7:00 min/mile. We will see what happens after the first 2 miles when the sugar buzz wears off!
Had a squash session and half an hour of gym climbing.
60k Tempo Ride
I plan on offsetting the cast-off flavor jellybeans gifted to me by my kids with an easy 7 mile run loop in zone 1 with minimal hills. I prepped yesterday for the big easter dinner at the in-laws with a 13 mile trail run in the Mt. Tom State Park, hilly and long. Glad the trails are snow free finally!
47.7 mile ride done. Too many gin&tonics yesterday
…as the Greek Orthodox Easter is on 5th of May… do i get to play in this??? hehhe :)
i will probably do an easy 10K after Easter
Long ride planned post-easter-egg hunt.
13 miles for me. This is a cutback week after a big ramp up of training. Looking forward to running Big Sur in 4 weeks. Not too much candy for me. Food is a bigger temptation.
Hike with the family, daughter in the back-pack. 1 hour easy ride up to parental units for dinner with fam.
my workout: play with 7 kids on Monday (when have second Easterday in Netherlands). This way, I will wear out the two brunches and some extra.
Greetings
7 mile trail run… will save the jelly beans for then.
18km LSD run.
A bike ride, length to be determined by a simple formula: # of pieces of candy eaten x 3 miles + # of adult beverages consumed x 5 miles. We’ll see how this goes!
Funny that I would see this as we head out for Easter brunch. 4 easy miles today, 4 Z4 tomorrow.
10k easy run, but I will watch some suffering on the TV (Flanders) :)
Here in Greece we celebrate the orthodox Pasxa ( Easter) so no candies for us yet. Anyway today I finished my first half marathon and tomorrow I will run an easy 5 KM just for my legs to come back to normal
Did my ride yesterday to prepare for Easter: 120.6 miles, 11908 feet of climbing, 6134 calories burned.
link to app.strava.com
Enjoying reese’s today.
1 hour recovery pace cycle !
60min hilly trail run. Those cadbury mini eggs are way too delicious.
126 km bike Disney – Sunny Bay – Tung Chung Return X2, then a 6km run around the two Disneyland hotels.
11 mile run and will try for a bike ride if the rain clears up to work off the Reese’s peanut butter eggs. Unfortunately it’s probably going to take a lot more than that to correct the damage done.
Half an hour interval, another half zone 3 pace !
Just an easy 50 minute run.
5 mile easy run.
Short ride today, and long ride tomorrow, to offset a gigantic and awesome Reese’s egg
Just an easy 50 minute run. No candy for me, but yes on Mac ad cheese!
1) 1:10 run staying below 75% max
2) 1:00 thanking the man for all he has given us
3) family lunch celebration
4) 40 minute ride the flush out the legs…
Biking whole easter weekend, friday 5h, saturday 3h45min, sunday 3h15min at the archipelago of Saimaa. Maybe another 3hours tomorrow.
I’m taking it out on the easter buffet – then going to get a road ride in before the wisdom teeth come out tomorrow!
14-18k run depending on how long it takes for the sugar buzz to wear off. Laura Secord Fruit and Nut eggs are killer!
link to movescount.com
HM on Monday, 10 on Wednesday. The candies are no problem, the easter food is…
Preemptive 9.25 mile run on hills yesterday with a 90 minute trainer ride chaser today (Baxter from Trainer Road if anyone is interested).
60 mile Sportiff in sub zero temps!!!!
BBBRRRrrrrr
7 mile run in the mountains. Was on “spring break” last week so it is a variety of a lot of bad eating behavior that needs to be run off.
Hihaaaaaa
HM on Monday, 10k on Wednesday.. the candies are no problem. The food and drinks are… :-)
Hihaaaaaa!!!!
On easter sunday, I shall be racing my third road race in 3 days.
Postscript: Punctured out for the second day running. Still, it won’t stop me from demolishing the chocolate bunny I promised myself
102 km group ride today starting at 8 AM in -4 freakin’ degrees celsius… Brrrrrr…
That is a scary looking bunny! I might do a sit-up or two and some push-ups today. I did my long run yesterday-9 miles as part of my taper for the Cherry Blossom 10-miler next Saturday. Have a great weekend!
4 mile trail run.
Continue with half marathon training plan for the two half’s coming up.
Happy Easter or Merry Christmas :)!
so, todays workouts
morning: indoor rowing and ergo
afternoon: biking, running
and now chocolate eggs :)
it’ll be a 2 mile swim followed by a 50 min elliptical workout for me!
As I have just returned from a training camp in Italy and having collected a whole lot of quality miles, I will only go out for a 50 minute shake out run and a few strides this evening.
My house has found itself overrun with flu. So we are just looking at the pile of jelly beans and cadbury cream eggs. Todays workout focuses on the core and involved a lot of coughing.
10k run then biking for 1 hours with the kids. Mr. chocolate bunny afterward. Thanks.
6 mile run/walk…building back and recovering from a neck injury. Also trying to burn off countless bags of Cadbury Mini Eggs. It seems that a lot of mini bags of Mini Eggs equals a lot of calories!
Just back from a 10 mile run.It’s a preemptive strike for the rest of the day.Bring on the chocolate
4k yesterday, challenging myself everyday to run a little more, chasing that little easter bunny that is the pursuit of better health… Can’t eat the chocolate, but can chase the animal!
10km: one km for each chocolate egg!
Couple hour bike outside for the first time now that we don’t have 10 inches of snow everywhere. BBQ’ing two chickens two ways, one dry salted, one wet marinated. Then biting heads off real fruit juice gummy bears!
10K easy run today. Not working off any candy (yet), but Easter has just begun…
16 mi. Easy run from my house to the in-laws house for Easter festivities. Enjoying the start to a taper for Boston.
I’ve already eaten a chocolate bunny, a creme filled egg, and countless smaller candy eggs. I’m going to ride on my oldest and heaviest bike up the biggest hills in the area several times to try to burn even a fraction of the chocolate off.
Hopefully get out on Tuesday for 4 hours on the road bike. Hopefully! Cadbury’s Caramel egg slowly vanishing here…. :)
Super Sweaty Tabata Super Sets, 4 rounds of cardio, 4 rounds of strength. Jump start the metabolism for the bag of Cadbury hard shell chocolate candy mini eggs I’m going to eat!
The other day I did a 13 km long run that was faster than expected. Which is good since I’ve eaten more chocolate than expected.
10k run and after it 1h in my bike … That should be enough for the start
I was travelling all week long till I reached home on Easter Friday. Easter is just an holiday here in Singapore, and I don’t really celebrate Easter holiday myself. Ran a couple of easy run at Gym prior Easter and had a nice swim on Sat morning with my boy at the pools for 45 mins.
2 hour run to work off some easter pancakes!
60 minute zone 2 run
Ran the St John’s “Tely 10 Teaser” on Good Friday, another 16k on Easter Sunday morning. I’m aiming for 10k everyday next week, darn chocolate & turkey, gravey, etc. etc.
I plan on walking hand in hand with my honey around the local lake to work off the couple dozen oysters and wine I plan on having for brunch.
5 km run followed by a 5 km row.
Reese’s bunnies. Followed by a 10k run. Then more bunnies.
Walking for 12 hours round Tokyo with the kids in the rain. Couldn’t get any chocolate eggs here so ate my own body weig in sushi to make up for it.
I ran 15K yesterday (my longest run to date!) and hopefully that will cancel out whatever candy sneaks its way from the 3 Easter baskets in my house into my piehole today! Happy Easter everyone!!!
No bunnies but a 20 mile long run /o\
To beat all the chocolate bunnies and eggs, and typical sweets of Portugal that I ate today, tomorrow’s training will be really hard.
Since my sport is sprint canoeing and even though the terrible weather here I have to go to the river to paddle.
So it will be 4km steady pace, followed by 4x50m at maximum pace and 4x100m also at maximum pace, ending with 6km steady pace.
In the afternoon some gym workout and running 45mins.
On Tuesday April 2nd i’m booked in for an organ removal – no kidding
should be worth about 0.5kg weight loss – so one of these link to lindt-shop.co.uk
Oh, my I would Love to win a Garmin, I am not so knowledgeable about them, but it’s good as long as has GPS and counts time, ha.
My workout tomorrow will be a ~7km run in the forest, I’m training for 7km race!
I will be biking to Easter brunch (40 miler). The am sure the overall experience will end in a very slow ride home, and a substantial net weight gain :).
I just ran a 5o km race yesterday so today I won’t be running anything. But come Monday, I’ll run to the grocery store for some 50% off chocolate bunnies to make up for it : )
5 mile run with the little one in the BoB through Lake Placid. Beautiful views, tons of history. Almost have to thank the Reece’s Peanut Butter Bunnies for making me feel guilty.
Non-specific short run, depends on the Easter bloody mary consumption : )
Five miles easy barefoot run…but my official Easter workout is going to have to wait until I get over this stinking stomach bug. :(
Paddling erg or rowing machine (resistance 5 on Concept 2 or equivalent with Multistroke); 5-10’ warm up; 3 x 10’ @ 80-90% 2K race intensity with 3’ recovery between reps; 5-10’ cool down.
An hour long easy run to run off (and away from) those addicting cadbury eggs! :)
7 mile progressive tempo to burn off all the peeps i had this morning!
Only 1 km swimming today. Not enough for an easter candy. But perhaps for a new Garmin 810 and finally spring?
40 Mile ride….trying to remember what it feels like to ride a bike after a long winter of well…nothing.
20 minute Trainer Road FTP test. The giant bar of 75% dark chocolate that’s staring me in the face.
I did a one hour ride followed by a half-hour run and then followed that with homemade blueberry pancakes. Yum!
235′ run with 5k, 4k and 3k at marathon pace with two-minute rest.
Wasn’t going to bother but guess the chance to win something good has motivated me to get out for a run with the dog.
On the road to visit family, but got in an early 5k at 6am before hitting the road. Jelly beans.
Sat 23 mile bike ride
Sun – off – had to do the family Easter thing to keep all happy!
Mon – 7 mile easy run
Tues – speed interval work
That ought to help get rid of some of the choc Easter bunny calories! :)
A one hour ride in the Xtracycle with the toddler, in a vain attempt to burn off those addictive Cadbury creme eggs :-)
A ride with the new bike today (ok, more for fitting adjustments than for a real workout, but you know… gives me an excuse to eat more of the apricot pie that’s laying there), and a simple 8K tempo run tomorrow. Assuming no snow…
15 mile run today to counteract all the Haribo Golden Bears!!
It’s a ride, in the cold, 100k or so to celebrate its classics season!
1 hr of cycling through rolling hills… Then 20 min med/high intense run. Dang my peeps for getting me… Peeps.
Solo 10-12 miler while everyone else is busy with Easter festivities.
Short 10k run or so! Maybe with some little intervals mixed in!
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?!?! ;)
10x800m anaerobic tempo with 400m jogging recovery followed by 10min tempro run. Bye Bye trans fat!