today i met up with my old neighbor is totally awesome. when we lived in our old house she was always offering to help me out swimming but i never took her up on it instead trying to get her to go open water swimming instead. she wasn't too keen on that but really who can blame her. but i have been swimming a ton (for me) since the beginning of the year and my shoulder has begun to hurt and my coach kept telling me to get some 1/1 attention so I sent our old neighbor an email asking for her help.
she met me at a pool in seattle, i have been on quite the pool tour lately. This was my 4th pool in two weeks. i wasn't sure on what to expect, but hot damn i learned a lot. by the end of the hour she had totally changed my stoke, had me comfortably breathing on both sides and just cutting through the water smoother then I have ever felt, and my shoulder didn't hurt at all! i could hardly beleive it!!! she said starting out that my stroke was pretty good but the changes she had me make made a world of difference. i need to work on swimming down because I was swimming like / she had me float for a while and determined that i am a sinker! i need to work on rotating more - the key to aleiving the shoulder pain. and lastly i need to use my arms like a windmill! she explained it all in a way that i can totally visualize and actually do. she said i did a good job because i followed direction really well, sometimes a little too well. but all in all its so awesome. now i can't wait until the next masters swim session to see how it goes. she said we can meet up again in a few weeks to see how its going.
but today was pretty much the end of my rest week. i've got 2hrs on the bike tomorrow followed by 45 minute run. weather is saying its going to rain which is going to BLOW ASS. yes i said it. especially since it was so beautiful today, reaching almost 60! last sunday when we started out it was 28 degrees but sunny. 28 and raining would kind of mean snow. or ice, which would mean not riding on the road. runnign this morning it was coooold with some ice on the puddles in the wetlands.
i got bullied into buying jeans that were twice as expensive as the ones i had set out to buy. grr. they look good i think but really after trying on 20 pairs they all blend together. and eric is learning! he is so good. i tried them on for him and his initial reaction was "wow, those make your butt look really good" then he changed it to "wow, your butt makes those jeans look good' or something funny like that. he also had the bonus of getting to see me in my silly swimsuit today. he made my day by telling me i looked like a swimmer in it and that really i didn't look so silly after all, despite the clouds and the rainbow and the birds on my arse.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
papers
i need to find the notes i took from disney world so i can organize a post about the trip. it was so fun and there were so many great moments of the trip that i want to make sure to capture it all. just not now.
i think i have a little bit of illness. just an annoying cough that started saturday night. earlier in the week both eric and i were exhausted. i have been getting up at 5am for workouts all week and eric would wake up and start his day at the same time, so on thursday we decided to go to bed at 8pm. that sounded great. we crawled into bed and both passed out until probably 11pm when eric got up to go throw up. over and over and many times thoughout the night. our night of good rest was not very restful. poor guy though, he was so sick. not sure if he had scome food poisoning or the stomach bug going around, but luckily by the morning he was a about 50% and then well enough on saturday to want to do some trail work, although I spoiled his plans to do so.
training has been going really well. i've been having a ton of fun and have been feeling great. this week was my highest volume and i am now heading into a rest week. i managed 6:15 on the bike, 2:45 running, 2:30 swimming and 1:30 weights for a total of 13hrs, and i feel great!! i'm tired and ready for my rest week but I am amazed at how good i feel. all this should wind up in me being faster, right? as part of my rest week I have a 30 minute zone 1 bike today which i don't know if I will even break a sweat on and then later in the week a 20 minute zone 1 run, which i don't know how i will do that, isn't that walking? but I am pretty excited, i think i am making progress!
yesterday alone as a feat all in its own. 2:45 on the bike followed by 45 minute run. when we started out on the bike it was 28 degrees! burr! my hands had never hurt so much before but about 45 minutes in i was ready to take a layer off and my hands were better. i don't know why 8 yr old gloves with holes in all the fingers wouldn't keep me warmer. i had an antire enteurage, if i could spell it, for the bike ride, too! renee, xtie, amy and eric and the kids all for the first leg and then janet joined for the last leg. no one wanted to join me on the run but man, i felt great, i couldn't beleive it! i kept wanting to run faster but had to hold back to stay in zone 2.
friday i rode around the lake by myself. i spent a good 1:35 worrying about having to ride up the big hill on the way home. oh i was worried. last year i stopped 3 times trying to get up it in my only attempt. as i got closer and closer i started thinking about how my feet were too hot, how my sunglasses were bugging my ears, how my hair was falling down in my hat under my helmet. then it was time and i just went up it. each time i reached one of the spots where i had stopped before i rejoiced! now i can go up it whenever i want!
i see a guy outside with short sleeves on, is it warm?
i think i have a little bit of illness. just an annoying cough that started saturday night. earlier in the week both eric and i were exhausted. i have been getting up at 5am for workouts all week and eric would wake up and start his day at the same time, so on thursday we decided to go to bed at 8pm. that sounded great. we crawled into bed and both passed out until probably 11pm when eric got up to go throw up. over and over and many times thoughout the night. our night of good rest was not very restful. poor guy though, he was so sick. not sure if he had scome food poisoning or the stomach bug going around, but luckily by the morning he was a about 50% and then well enough on saturday to want to do some trail work, although I spoiled his plans to do so.
training has been going really well. i've been having a ton of fun and have been feeling great. this week was my highest volume and i am now heading into a rest week. i managed 6:15 on the bike, 2:45 running, 2:30 swimming and 1:30 weights for a total of 13hrs, and i feel great!! i'm tired and ready for my rest week but I am amazed at how good i feel. all this should wind up in me being faster, right? as part of my rest week I have a 30 minute zone 1 bike today which i don't know if I will even break a sweat on and then later in the week a 20 minute zone 1 run, which i don't know how i will do that, isn't that walking? but I am pretty excited, i think i am making progress!
yesterday alone as a feat all in its own. 2:45 on the bike followed by 45 minute run. when we started out on the bike it was 28 degrees! burr! my hands had never hurt so much before but about 45 minutes in i was ready to take a layer off and my hands were better. i don't know why 8 yr old gloves with holes in all the fingers wouldn't keep me warmer. i had an antire enteurage, if i could spell it, for the bike ride, too! renee, xtie, amy and eric and the kids all for the first leg and then janet joined for the last leg. no one wanted to join me on the run but man, i felt great, i couldn't beleive it! i kept wanting to run faster but had to hold back to stay in zone 2.
friday i rode around the lake by myself. i spent a good 1:35 worrying about having to ride up the big hill on the way home. oh i was worried. last year i stopped 3 times trying to get up it in my only attempt. as i got closer and closer i started thinking about how my feet were too hot, how my sunglasses were bugging my ears, how my hair was falling down in my hat under my helmet. then it was time and i just went up it. each time i reached one of the spots where i had stopped before i rejoiced! now i can go up it whenever i want!
i see a guy outside with short sleeves on, is it warm?
Monday, February 02, 2009
sirus is funny
i'll get back to disney world at some point but sirus was just so funny tonight.
i picked out his thomas the train jammies but sirus didn't want to wear them since they don't protect him from monsters the same way that his gld bug jammies do. apparently thomas has tried to run over him in the past...
then he went on and on about everything he had seen at disney world. how on the safari we didn't see any lions but we saw elephants, giraffes and zebras. he told me how on the ride Dinosaur! he would jump out and say boo to the dinosaurs but they were never afriad but when i asked him if the dinosaurs said boo to him he said no because dinosaurs don't talk.
then he told me how he didnt see oswald, daisy or henry (thank goodness) and no speed racer even though he was looking all over for speed racer. i had never heard the little guy talk non stop for so long before.
total adorableness.
i picked out his thomas the train jammies but sirus didn't want to wear them since they don't protect him from monsters the same way that his gld bug jammies do. apparently thomas has tried to run over him in the past...
then he went on and on about everything he had seen at disney world. how on the safari we didn't see any lions but we saw elephants, giraffes and zebras. he told me how on the ride Dinosaur! he would jump out and say boo to the dinosaurs but they were never afriad but when i asked him if the dinosaurs said boo to him he said no because dinosaurs don't talk.
then he told me how he didnt see oswald, daisy or henry (thank goodness) and no speed racer even though he was looking all over for speed racer. i had never heard the little guy talk non stop for so long before.
total adorableness.
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