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Workouts have been really consistent due to my Olympic triathlon training. My weeks are basically swim, bike, run x 2 for 6 workouts a week. I missed a ride over Memorial Day weekend, so I tacked it on to the first week in June. I have been running on a Monday-Sunday training week (aka my "week"starts on Monday)
June 2-8. Need: 2 swims, 45 min bike x 2, 35 min run x 2. + 60 min bike from previous week. (this was a scaled back week in training).
Monday: supposed to run w/group. got rained out. Put in 30 min on the treadmill, 30 min on stationary bike at YMCA.
Tuesday: AM swim, PM yoga
Wednesday: Morning ride. Radar showed rain a ways off. It wasn't raining when I woke up. I got out the door and it started sprinkling. I wasn't going to let rain show me up! However, it was steady enough for me to only go a mile from home and ride some repeats down my favorite street. Only got 30 minutes in until the lightning/thunder got close and I had to bail!
Forgot to start my watch until I was halfway through!
Thursday: AM swim with the new coach. Eh. I just wanted my coach who knows me and can push me. It was okay and pretty easy. PM 40 Min run. Felt awful. Legs were heavy, lungs were tight. Decent pace, though!
Saturday: Garage sales :) ha!
Sunday: 90 min bike trainer ride. I had those two 45 min bike rides to get in, so I just combined them. I got to space out on the bike trainer and it went pretty fast. Why didn't I use this more in winter?
June 9-15 Needed: Swim x 2, run 50/45 mins, Bike 75 min x 2.
Monday: 45 min run. Slower pace once I hit trails instead of pavement.
Tuesday: 75 min bike trainer ride.
Wednesday: Morning swim. Swam outdoors in a 50meter pool. Tried the GPS watch for kicks. I swam "a mile" 1500m (a swimmer's mile). The time was right and the distance was pretty darn close. (1500m=0.93 miles). But that GPS map! LOL
Thursday: Rest (AKA BOUGHT A CAR!!!)
Friday: Rest.
Saturday: 1 mile open water swimming race! A few posts ago I said I was doing this one, but could have done a longer one 50 minutes away. I'm glad I stuck to this one! It was great! It was about 2 hours away, but the drive wasn't that bad. I got to registration and got my stuff. Did the sunscreen thing, and then was hanging out near the beach. The race isn't huge, but the race director coming over and introducing himself was very nice. I warmed up and wasn't super confident because everyone looked so fast! But the water was a perfect temperature and remarkably clear. We had our pre-race meeting and I was off before I knew it!
I only got kicked on the last turn. There were about 4 of us turning at the same time at the buoy and I turned and then did 2 breastroke strokes to make sure I had sight of the buoy at the end. In that moment, the people behind me kept doing freestyle and my legs were under someone when I tried to kick and I got kicked as well. It was amusing to me! We got to the end and I had wanted to make it under 1/2 hour, but I knew i was probably over. I swam the best pace I could and the race ended on the beach. I swam till 2 strokes hit the sand, stood up, and jogged over the finish mat. And wouldn't you know it, that sneaky little bastard that I had been next to and was ahead of at the end SPRINTED out of the water and crossed 2 seconds before me? Rude. haha!
I took off my timing chip, handed it to a volunteer and was promptly greeted by a congratulatory handshake from the race director. What?!? Small race in small town America - can't beat it! I felt awful and dehydrated, so I downed a gatorade and hung out near the finish. The race was supposed to cut off at an hour, but the last person was a few minutes over. Do you really think this nice race director would pull the oldest competitor out of the water because of the time limit? No! When she crossed the finish line, there was as much cheering for her as, I imagine, the winner. Made me happy! They got through the awards and door prizes - I didn't win any (I was hoping for a door prize!). I went to look at the results and found the sheet for women's results. I look down at the bottom half of the list..um..not there...kept going up and - holy smokes! I got 5/18! I was VERY happy with that. I wasn't anywhere close to the top 3, but was about 45 seconds behind 4th place. And the kicker - I recognized a girl's name I used to race against in high school...I beat her by a lot! :)
Now, I was TIRED. And I knew I needed to run. I didn't see any good routes close to this lake. And if I got in the car and went to my dad's, I know I definitely wouldn't run. And I skipped the run today, I wouldn't do it tomorrow. But, if I did it today, in this town, I could get one of my favorite lunches that we don't have in the city! A light bulb went off! The people who did the timing was a running company from that town. I asked them for suggestions and they suggested a park with plenty of greenways 10 minutes away. Perfect!
I had a banana, nutrigrain bar, and some water and I was finally feeling a lot better. My run started by feeling tired, but not impossible. I had bargained that I would do 4:1 run/walk ratios so that I wouldn't beat myself up if I was too tired to run for a very long time. The first mile wasn't amazing, the second mile was pretty slow, the third mile, for some reason, I picked the speed up and I was not impossibly tired, and the final 3/4 of a mile, I was determined to be "fast". Negative split the second half...not too shabby!
Sunday: Father's Day. I had SwimKid and we did the church thing then came home for a nap. At 6pm, we had to get in a hike (her request), go grocery shopping, do dinner, a bath, and I needed that final bike trainer ride. All in 4 hours. Yikes! Luckily I rushed her along in the hike and when we went grocery shopping she asked if she could pick out a snack. I was reluctant because we had froyo for lunch, but I said sure. And wouldn't you know it - that kid picked out a banana as a treat. Without prompting from me. Are we even related? She had eggs, broccoli, and a banana for dinner. I had leftovers of some pasta and garlic bread. Her meal wins! I got 10 mins of bike riding in while she was in the bath, then 40 more after she was out. Then I was exhausted and it was past my bedtime, so I scraped the remaining 25 minutes. Oh well! :)
June 16-22. Need swim x 2, run 50/55 mins, ride 90 mins, ride 90mins+10 min transition run.
Monday: 90 minute bike trainer ride. Felt good to have one crossed off the list right off the bat.
Tuesday: AM swims (maps/yards were all over the place), PM yoga.
Wednesday: 55 min run on the indoor track as it was storming out. Then bowling w/my small group.
Thursday: There was like 1 bolt of lightning at 6am, so they closed the pool. I decided to do my other run, as I was going to do it after work anyway. It was a gorgeous morning, albeit humid!
I was going to do a swim in the evening, but it was storming (again). So I just went home and will tack it on to the next week.
Friday: Worked a conference. Childcare burns a lot more calories than sitting at my desk all day. #hungry
Saturday: Same conference.
Sunday: Half day at the conference. Came home, ate, text people about biking. No one was in, so I took a hardcore nap. I did a 90 minute ride later that evening with a 10 minute transition run. SwimKid was with me, so she was running in her pjs and flip flops, so my pace was far from stellar. At least I got it done!
June 23-29. Need Swim x 3 (1 makeup from last week), run 55/60 mins, bike 90 mins x 2.
Monday: 90 min bike trainer ride. Finished Sherlock season 3. Really, BBC? Not a fan of that ending. I'm a huge fan of the books and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have done something like that.
Tuesday: AM swim. Very threatening clouds, but no lightning! Yoga was cancelled due to tornado warnings!
Planned: Wednesday: 60 min run w/small group from church
Thursday: AM swim, PM nails done - yeah!
Friday: Rest
Saturday: Triathlon! 600 yd swim, 14 mile bike, 3.7 mile run. yeah, I'm counting this as 1 swim, 1 bike, and 1 run. I may ride a little Wednesday or Thursday because I haven't ridden outside since the beginning of the month!
Whew, just typing all that made me tired.
I am not enjoying tri training as much as I did last year. This month has been hard because I've had a lot to do and my tri group from the Y has a very different training schedule than last year. Definitely excuses, but it is annoying. Last summer I had 1 activity every day and I was training for a sprint tri which meant 1 a day was good enough and whatever the group did was good enough. This Olympic tri means more training and this summer a lot of it is by myself. Wahhhhh....
I don't know how people train for Ironman races!
Food has been okay except for this last week. Let's take today for example. Breakfast was breakfast sandwich and veggies (decent), lunch was baked chicken and veggies (good!), I came home and had 2 breadsticks + marinara sauce, chips & hummus, half a hershey's bar, and more chips (freaking awful!). Sigh. Planning would be a good thing to do!
Sorry for a lack of real pics! My phone had so many amazing pics for this post, but it died on Sunday and I am not able to recover ANYTHING!!! Boooooo....
A gold star for anyone who actually finished this post. Let me know where to mail it :)
Wow! Where on earth do you find all this energy? I am completely in awe.
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