Tuesday 6-14
Swam the 4300. Went early and started before Masters swim. Did the 3 1000s and it went pretty well. I love Masters swim. It is sometimes more like my social hour than a workout. Did a little 30 minute run afterwards. Felt good except my calves were feeling really tight.
Wed.
Bad weather and crazy day at work. Forgot to do something so was pushed back 3 hours. Boss had a baby and it has been hard to keep it together at the lab without him. Went home and did bike workout on trainer. Got distacted by guy selling magazines at the door. Ran back to work to finish and then ran home. Late night. Running at 930. Feel okay. Calves are a little tight.
Thursday
Swim- went well. I think I have a touch of OCD. Plated 25 sets of plates at work and timed myself. Takes 2 minutes/set. Then had to go swim 25 laps which takes 2 minutes/lap. Pretty mentally beat up after today.
Friday
Achilles is hurting. Took the day off. Am in a total funk today. Tired. Went home and took a 2.5 hour lap.
Sat.
Achilles is still hurting. Swam in pond for an hour. Didn't run. Taking ibuprofen and icing achilles. Still in a funk. Tired.
Sunday
Slept in and feeling a little less in a funk. Did the 3.5 hour ride. Legs tired. Tried to go on run but Achilles still hurt. Iced and took more Ibuprofen.
Monday
Got up and ran in the morning. Achilles hurt for a little bit but went away after I got warmed up. Body felt weird until I got warmed up. Rest of run felt pretty good.
In general I have been in a total funk since Thursday evening or Friday morning. Is this normal? Please tell me I should be feeling great again by the weekend.
Also -nutrition on the run- I think I am going to carry a bottle, I am still deciding. I feel like I always have this burden running. Lots of clothes or food etc. I think I would be happy running without anything. I will probably have some stuff to stick in my pockets though.
6/20/2011
6/13/2011
Week of 6-8-11 thru 6-14-11
Wed.
Got up in the morning and did the run. Uneventful. The weather was a little windy and after I got done the wind really picked up. Glad I ran early.
Rode the trainer. It was either windy or raining or both. Spun out for 90 minutes. Didn't get started until 8pm. Had to go and buy a baby shower gift for Heather.
Thursday
Swam. Got in and got it done. Felt good and went by pretty quick. Didn't get home until late because of Rec. and Parks meeting.
Friday
Had to get to work early for an experiment and so we would have time to take Heather to lunch for her baby shower. Had to stay late at work to run samples. Then the machine broke. Stayed until 7pm with Josh trying to get machine to work. Totally beat and totally blew off the whole workout today. Exhausting week just planning that baby shower.
Sat.
Kind of got a late start. Did the White Sulpher Springs loop with a little out and back to Two Dot. Beautiful ride and didn't get rained on despite the weather brewing all around. Had a ride time of 6 hours and 110 miles of biking. Did it with Erik and lost the pump so when he got a flat I rode back to car. Didn't do run because I was worried about it getting dark on him. Did I say we got a late start. Got back to car at 8:45. Good ride though. No nagging pain other than what I guess would be fatigue from riding. Climbed some good CDA like hills.
Sun.
Rode around and dropped off coke and pretzels at a couple of stops on running route. Rode for about and hour. Got off and ran. Ran 2 hours. Didn't get so lucky with the rain but it wasn't so bad. Was pretty tired from the ride. Legs tired. Got a massage afterwards. Worked on my sore legs. Matt said there wasn't much going on in my back like I had before. Makes me happy.
Mon.
Went to pool thinking lap swim was 6-830. Apparantly they started summer hours and close early at 7pm. It was already 615 so blew off swim. Why would you close earlier in the summer? Weird. Anyway, can swim tomorrow. Masters will go until 830. I can start early and swim my own thing at Masters. Went home and rode for an hour or so. Did core for 20 minutes. Didn't want to do Tuesdays hard workout on these tired legs.
Got up in the morning and did the run. Uneventful. The weather was a little windy and after I got done the wind really picked up. Glad I ran early.
Rode the trainer. It was either windy or raining or both. Spun out for 90 minutes. Didn't get started until 8pm. Had to go and buy a baby shower gift for Heather.
Thursday
Swam. Got in and got it done. Felt good and went by pretty quick. Didn't get home until late because of Rec. and Parks meeting.
Friday
Had to get to work early for an experiment and so we would have time to take Heather to lunch for her baby shower. Had to stay late at work to run samples. Then the machine broke. Stayed until 7pm with Josh trying to get machine to work. Totally beat and totally blew off the whole workout today. Exhausting week just planning that baby shower.
Sat.
Kind of got a late start. Did the White Sulpher Springs loop with a little out and back to Two Dot. Beautiful ride and didn't get rained on despite the weather brewing all around. Had a ride time of 6 hours and 110 miles of biking. Did it with Erik and lost the pump so when he got a flat I rode back to car. Didn't do run because I was worried about it getting dark on him. Did I say we got a late start. Got back to car at 8:45. Good ride though. No nagging pain other than what I guess would be fatigue from riding. Climbed some good CDA like hills.
Sun.
Rode around and dropped off coke and pretzels at a couple of stops on running route. Rode for about and hour. Got off and ran. Ran 2 hours. Didn't get so lucky with the rain but it wasn't so bad. Was pretty tired from the ride. Legs tired. Got a massage afterwards. Worked on my sore legs. Matt said there wasn't much going on in my back like I had before. Makes me happy.
Mon.
Went to pool thinking lap swim was 6-830. Apparantly they started summer hours and close early at 7pm. It was already 615 so blew off swim. Why would you close earlier in the summer? Weird. Anyway, can swim tomorrow. Masters will go until 830. I can start early and swim my own thing at Masters. Went home and rode for an hour or so. Did core for 20 minutes. Didn't want to do Tuesdays hard workout on these tired legs.
6/06/2011
Oliver Race Report
The Okanagan Valley is beautiful and it was so much fun to take a trip to a new place. I got my Mom to go along with and we had a blast.
The day before the race was busy with the little swim, a ride, packet pickup, bike check in, and the race meeting. It was fun to swim in open water. First of the year and the course was very pretty. I rode and hour and rode up the one big hill to have an idea of how that was. We ate some early dinner and hung out at the hotel for the evening.
Race morning. I still wasn't freaking out. Felt very comfortable to do this race. Got to the transition and spent a lot of time in the bathroom line then went to check the air pressure on my tires. The pump wouldn't work and all the air on the rear wheel was gone. Crap. Luckily the Bike Barn was there and they filled my tire for me. The people in Canada were so nice. Even got a couple little packs of sunscreen.
Got over to the beach which was about 1/2km away. STart was fine. Did I mention the people were nice. This lady kind of cut me off in the swim and she apologized. In the swim!! I did notice myself losing focus on the swim and sort of forgetting to swim fast. I would just be swimming easy along. Then I would redirect and go faster again. Got out in my normal swim time. No suprise there, but I definitely wasn't all that tired. Could have kept swimming.
Made the long run over to the transition. Put on the compression socks (which took a minute) and headed out on the bike. For the first lap and little loop I focused on eating regulary and keeping a nice steady pace. Not too much extra effort up the hills and not coast downhill. Felt really good. Had a few annoying guys that were drafting that kept trying to pass me. Finally got rid of them. This is mean but there was this one guy witha muffin top, but he was way faster on the run. I kept thinking oh there goes muffin top again. Anyway, after the first lap I evaluated my time and decided I really needed to go faster the second lap so I pushed a lot harder. It felt good so I just kept going. Came in at 2:39. My PR and that is with the extra few miles. I was soo happy coming in for the run.
Got through transition fast and started the run. Kept it slow at first because it was getting hot and I didn't want to crack. On the second lap though I felt so good I picked it up. Took a sponge gel and water at aid stations and just kept cruising. The aid stations were so well stocked and had little kids saying "do you want a pretzel". So cute. Sweet. Was even smilingat the end I felt so good.
Finished 5:16 something. My best time and the course was longer. Also, I just felt great the whole time. Super happy with everything.
Went to a great winery after eating and cleaning up. It felt like Italy up there.
Thanks Elliot for suggesting the race. The people were awesome. The course was great. The race was so well done. I think that is the best half I have ever done.
Yeah!!
The day before the race was busy with the little swim, a ride, packet pickup, bike check in, and the race meeting. It was fun to swim in open water. First of the year and the course was very pretty. I rode and hour and rode up the one big hill to have an idea of how that was. We ate some early dinner and hung out at the hotel for the evening.
Race morning. I still wasn't freaking out. Felt very comfortable to do this race. Got to the transition and spent a lot of time in the bathroom line then went to check the air pressure on my tires. The pump wouldn't work and all the air on the rear wheel was gone. Crap. Luckily the Bike Barn was there and they filled my tire for me. The people in Canada were so nice. Even got a couple little packs of sunscreen.
Got over to the beach which was about 1/2km away. STart was fine. Did I mention the people were nice. This lady kind of cut me off in the swim and she apologized. In the swim!! I did notice myself losing focus on the swim and sort of forgetting to swim fast. I would just be swimming easy along. Then I would redirect and go faster again. Got out in my normal swim time. No suprise there, but I definitely wasn't all that tired. Could have kept swimming.
Made the long run over to the transition. Put on the compression socks (which took a minute) and headed out on the bike. For the first lap and little loop I focused on eating regulary and keeping a nice steady pace. Not too much extra effort up the hills and not coast downhill. Felt really good. Had a few annoying guys that were drafting that kept trying to pass me. Finally got rid of them. This is mean but there was this one guy witha muffin top, but he was way faster on the run. I kept thinking oh there goes muffin top again. Anyway, after the first lap I evaluated my time and decided I really needed to go faster the second lap so I pushed a lot harder. It felt good so I just kept going. Came in at 2:39. My PR and that is with the extra few miles. I was soo happy coming in for the run.
Got through transition fast and started the run. Kept it slow at first because it was getting hot and I didn't want to crack. On the second lap though I felt so good I picked it up. Took a sponge gel and water at aid stations and just kept cruising. The aid stations were so well stocked and had little kids saying "do you want a pretzel". So cute. Sweet. Was even smilingat the end I felt so good.
Finished 5:16 something. My best time and the course was longer. Also, I just felt great the whole time. Super happy with everything.
Went to a great winery after eating and cleaning up. It felt like Italy up there.
Thanks Elliot for suggesting the race. The people were awesome. The course was great. The race was so well done. I think that is the best half I have ever done.
Yeah!!
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