i got up to go swimming today. i thought about using my new found wisdom and just get back in bed but think that i shouldn't confuse lazyness with wisdom. there might be a fine line there.
i have been thinking the hamburger suit might be cursed. i haven't ever had a good swim while wearing it. i wore it this morning and yeah, it might be cursed.
the coach put the warm up on the board. it wasn't the normal warm of so i accidentally did an extra 100 before i caught on for a total of 900 yards, should have been only 800. while we were all doing the warm up he put the next set up - 6x50 build then 4x100 (anything but free) of which he had me do only 2x100 because i am slower and was falling behind. granted some of my falling behind was due to him stopping me and giving me some pointers. then came the next set, the one he didn't put on the board. 3x500 with the 3rd one being timed. i did the first 500 and thought i was going to die. my arms were so tired and it was just really freaking hard. and my time, good lord my time was terrible. it was 30 seconds slower than the timed 500 i did in january and over a minute slower that my pace for the timed 1000 i just did a few weeks ago. i wasn't so happy with that and blamed it on the hamburger suit.
so i rested and then set off again. this time i took it easy and just swam. every 3rd length i did the breast stroke and my arms were not as tired. this time i finished over 1 minute faster than the previous to which the coach agreed was more likely and much more inline with the people i normally swim with. we determined that i must have mis counted the first one and done an extra 50 or something. i hope that is the case and not that i mis counted the 2nd and did 50 too few, that would blow. i opted out of the 3rd one but did a quick 200 to finish up. i was beat. swimming is hard and i was a littl discouraged today.
Monday, April 20, 2009
another week down
the day after the race i was pretty tired. i didn't realize it until i got to work and had to walk up the steps. on tuesday i had weights that went pretty well, and then a zn2 ride with the 3x8minute zn3s and 15 second sprints. that went pretty well except the first 20 minutes i couldn't get into zn2. it was the hardest thing to do ever. eventually i got there and the zn3 stuff was cake, plus i got to watch nip/tuck so i was happy.
wedesday i swam in the morning. i don't remember much about it and i forgot to do my core workout. i thought about it all day adn all evening while i was watching america's next top model and beverly hills 90210. OMG tori spelling as donna is so beleivable as a high fashion designer in japan.
thursday morning were weights which were fine and then a 1hr run with 3x8zn3, plus 1minute accelerations and 1minute rest. damn, that was fun. i even dropped eric! He;s been working pretty hard and he got a side cramp, but i just kept going. i was happy to see that my 1 minutes were averaging 6:33 which is super fast for me!
friday i woke up at 5 to go swimming but it was raining and had been all night so i went back to bed. :) my coach told me she was happy i was showing wisdom in listening to my body and resting when i needed it! hooray! those two extra hours of sleep did a ton of good though, that is for sure. i met up with leslie at gold's gym to swim later that evening. their's is a salt water pool and damn it was salty. it was a meter pool too and the water seemed all thick and weird. i didn't like it so much but i liked swimming with leslie and i was happy to get the workout in.
saturday we headed to port gamble. we hopped on the ferry and drove to the race site just as the race was starting. i wasn't racing but i got ready to go and noticed my handlebars were totally crooked. i wondered if they had been like that for my whole race last weekend? anyway, eric fixed them right up and i headed out. WOW! what a fun place to ride!! there was a really long road climb but really that wasn't too bad but the first bit of single track made up for all the road. it was twisty adn turny and tight and bumpy adn fun. it was uphill and there were somw switchbacks and i rode the whole thing! the coarse went through so many different types of landscapes that it reminded me of why washington is so awesome.
an 1:48 after i was back at the start, i changed into my running gear and headed out on a zn2-3 30 minute run. i was out on the road and it was way hillier than i would have liked but i was happy to see that i was just at the very bottom of zn3 but managed 8:16 pace. hooray! when i got back eric was headed out on his race and the kids just had a ton of fun playing. they were running all over and chansing some older girls that were there. they played monkey in the middle and chicken and it was just so fun to watch them have so much fun.
sunday the kids and i went for a walk to run some errands. eric was out riding but met up with us on the way home. then i went out for 1:30 zn 1 on the bike. it was supposedly 70 degrees out but i was wearing arm warmers and a vest. still, no complaints. we had dinner out on the deck which was pushing it because it really wasn't that warm but still it was nice to be out there. the kids played non stop.
there is a mystery watch alarm that goes off randomly in the middle of the night and its driving me crazy. it went off last night at 12:30. grr.
wedesday i swam in the morning. i don't remember much about it and i forgot to do my core workout. i thought about it all day adn all evening while i was watching america's next top model and beverly hills 90210. OMG tori spelling as donna is so beleivable as a high fashion designer in japan.
thursday morning were weights which were fine and then a 1hr run with 3x8zn3, plus 1minute accelerations and 1minute rest. damn, that was fun. i even dropped eric! He;s been working pretty hard and he got a side cramp, but i just kept going. i was happy to see that my 1 minutes were averaging 6:33 which is super fast for me!
friday i woke up at 5 to go swimming but it was raining and had been all night so i went back to bed. :) my coach told me she was happy i was showing wisdom in listening to my body and resting when i needed it! hooray! those two extra hours of sleep did a ton of good though, that is for sure. i met up with leslie at gold's gym to swim later that evening. their's is a salt water pool and damn it was salty. it was a meter pool too and the water seemed all thick and weird. i didn't like it so much but i liked swimming with leslie and i was happy to get the workout in.
saturday we headed to port gamble. we hopped on the ferry and drove to the race site just as the race was starting. i wasn't racing but i got ready to go and noticed my handlebars were totally crooked. i wondered if they had been like that for my whole race last weekend? anyway, eric fixed them right up and i headed out. WOW! what a fun place to ride!! there was a really long road climb but really that wasn't too bad but the first bit of single track made up for all the road. it was twisty adn turny and tight and bumpy adn fun. it was uphill and there were somw switchbacks and i rode the whole thing! the coarse went through so many different types of landscapes that it reminded me of why washington is so awesome.
an 1:48 after i was back at the start, i changed into my running gear and headed out on a zn2-3 30 minute run. i was out on the road and it was way hillier than i would have liked but i was happy to see that i was just at the very bottom of zn3 but managed 8:16 pace. hooray! when i got back eric was headed out on his race and the kids just had a ton of fun playing. they were running all over and chansing some older girls that were there. they played monkey in the middle and chicken and it was just so fun to watch them have so much fun.
sunday the kids and i went for a walk to run some errands. eric was out riding but met up with us on the way home. then i went out for 1:30 zn 1 on the bike. it was supposedly 70 degrees out but i was wearing arm warmers and a vest. still, no complaints. we had dinner out on the deck which was pushing it because it really wasn't that warm but still it was nice to be out there. the kids played non stop.
there is a mystery watch alarm that goes off randomly in the middle of the night and its driving me crazy. it went off last night at 12:30. grr.
Monday, April 13, 2009
race #1
i have been sick for a few weeks and one some antibiotcs. because of this my coach has had m taking it easy sort of. which was kind of funny since kind of easy somehow translated into 12 days in a row with no rest day and 11hr workout weeks, but who's counting! but really other than the general assness i was feeling, i felt great!
i ended the antibiotics on thursday. saturday i went over to pre-ride the race course. i was to do 1:30 with 20' warm up, 10' zn3, 4x2' zn 4 with recover between and then 20' zn 2, followed but just riding along the rest of the time. so i was not able to accomplish this since i was either in zone 4 or zone 1. i later found out that this was ok, the point was to make sure i got up to zone 4. sara met me 40 minutes in and we rode the coarse 2 more times. the coarse was fun but it was going to be hard. i was able to ride almost everything except the obvious run-up, a weird cinderblock turn thing and then a tight uphill switch back thing.
then i went home and stessed over it all.
all evening and all night long.
and all morning and early afternoon since the race didn't start until 12:45.
we packed up the car and left for the race site at 11. we got there at like 11:45 or so. i went and registered, chatted with a few people then dressed to pre-ride. it was raining and had been for a long time. about 20 seconds into the pre-ride i was having some serious doubt about the race because i was fish tailing all over the place and the mud was super deep. then 2 minutes in i totally crashed on a log i had cleared every time the day before. oooh, thats going to leave a mark, plus i was now covered with mud. i went and talked to some people, and we all comiserated about the mud. and i started to finally relax about the whole race situation.
we lined up at the start. there were 16 sport women, and like 5 open or experts. and we were off. peddle peddle peddle. i got in front of a few people before we headed into the first bit of single track and down the big hill with the drop offs then up the next pavement hill i passed a few more. i was working really hard. then i'm not exactly sure what happened. i played leap frog with a few girls here and there but eventually wound up infront of them. the mud was so thick. some of the girst were getting off and carrying their bike cyclocross sytle which seemed like a pretty good idea. i really wasn't able to ride up any of the short steep hills I had riddedn so many times the day before so I did a lot of running. going into one long gradual climb on of the girls dropped her gu and i passed and put a pretty good lead on her. until it was down the drop off again and bam, i had a flat. i stopped and waited for her to catch up, let her know i was out and then rode to find eric. he was like - well, fix it!! i was done, or so i thought. he ran and got the wheel off of his bike and through it on. i went back to where i had dropped out and got back in only to find out i got in at the wrong place. i had a big climb and the decent with the drop offs again. i managed to catch two girls and was eventually caught by the 1st place open woman. she and i chit chatted a bit and then she was off. the last lap i couldn't shift into my smal gear up front which made me sad. i realized this only after i had thought I shifted down at one hill, got off, ran to the top and then shifted back into the middle gear. i was riding along and really struggling when i found that i had gotten into my big ring! yikes, i dropped out of that quickly and rode the rest of the race in my middle ring.
i was having a lot of fun and having gotten the flat gave me extra opportunity to go hard but relax and just ride. i wound up finishing 8th/13 in my age group which i was happy with and 11/16 overall. ok, so i probably cheated with the whole wheel swap thing but i don't know if anyone is counting with the whole 8th place. if so i'll gladly give it up to a DQ or whatever. :)
but most of all i was pretty happy that i rode as well as I did and was as strong as i was. i had no idea i would be so far up before flatting. i feel i probably would have been able to hold 2nd for that last 1.5 laps. so i am pretty stoked to see what happens at the next race.
i did get today off to rest and then i start with some intervals tomorrow and through the rest of the week. i am excited to see where this season is headed!!
after i was done i changed in someone's butthutt and then changed the kids since their clothes were soaked and muddy. eric's race started and the kids and i went hiking to find a good place to watch. there wasn't really anywhere good to watch since it was non stop torrential downpour but ya know. we did walk up by the rugby field that had a sand track around it. seamus asked how far it was around and then said she wanted to run it. so she did. 3 times. she looked so tiny waaaay out there on the other side with her green puffy coat, her pink hello kitty hat and her pink puddle boots just running running running. i don't know about her sometimes.
we were DRENCHED. i decided eric's race was far enough along that we were going to get in the car and hang out. i took the kids boots, coats, sweatshirts and pants off so they were playing in the car in t-shirts and underpants. the last bit of oraganizing i did was in a complete monsoon and i jumped in the car still in my coat which brought a huge puddle to the front seat. i took my drenched coat off and sat on my vest to sop up the wet.
we could see eric every once in a while while we sat in the warm stuffy stinky car listening the mama mia sound track. sara came and hung out with us some, too which was fun. and then eric's race was finally done! he came in 3rd which was impressive since the monsoon hit while he was out there any many people bailed due to mechanicals or just because the conditions were so terrible. i was proud of him!
it was a good race!
then we stopped at BK and i had the best tasting whopper EVER.
i ended the antibiotics on thursday. saturday i went over to pre-ride the race course. i was to do 1:30 with 20' warm up, 10' zn3, 4x2' zn 4 with recover between and then 20' zn 2, followed but just riding along the rest of the time. so i was not able to accomplish this since i was either in zone 4 or zone 1. i later found out that this was ok, the point was to make sure i got up to zone 4. sara met me 40 minutes in and we rode the coarse 2 more times. the coarse was fun but it was going to be hard. i was able to ride almost everything except the obvious run-up, a weird cinderblock turn thing and then a tight uphill switch back thing.
then i went home and stessed over it all.
all evening and all night long.
and all morning and early afternoon since the race didn't start until 12:45.
we packed up the car and left for the race site at 11. we got there at like 11:45 or so. i went and registered, chatted with a few people then dressed to pre-ride. it was raining and had been for a long time. about 20 seconds into the pre-ride i was having some serious doubt about the race because i was fish tailing all over the place and the mud was super deep. then 2 minutes in i totally crashed on a log i had cleared every time the day before. oooh, thats going to leave a mark, plus i was now covered with mud. i went and talked to some people, and we all comiserated about the mud. and i started to finally relax about the whole race situation.
we lined up at the start. there were 16 sport women, and like 5 open or experts. and we were off. peddle peddle peddle. i got in front of a few people before we headed into the first bit of single track and down the big hill with the drop offs then up the next pavement hill i passed a few more. i was working really hard. then i'm not exactly sure what happened. i played leap frog with a few girls here and there but eventually wound up infront of them. the mud was so thick. some of the girst were getting off and carrying their bike cyclocross sytle which seemed like a pretty good idea. i really wasn't able to ride up any of the short steep hills I had riddedn so many times the day before so I did a lot of running. going into one long gradual climb on of the girls dropped her gu and i passed and put a pretty good lead on her. until it was down the drop off again and bam, i had a flat. i stopped and waited for her to catch up, let her know i was out and then rode to find eric. he was like - well, fix it!! i was done, or so i thought. he ran and got the wheel off of his bike and through it on. i went back to where i had dropped out and got back in only to find out i got in at the wrong place. i had a big climb and the decent with the drop offs again. i managed to catch two girls and was eventually caught by the 1st place open woman. she and i chit chatted a bit and then she was off. the last lap i couldn't shift into my smal gear up front which made me sad. i realized this only after i had thought I shifted down at one hill, got off, ran to the top and then shifted back into the middle gear. i was riding along and really struggling when i found that i had gotten into my big ring! yikes, i dropped out of that quickly and rode the rest of the race in my middle ring.
i was having a lot of fun and having gotten the flat gave me extra opportunity to go hard but relax and just ride. i wound up finishing 8th/13 in my age group which i was happy with and 11/16 overall. ok, so i probably cheated with the whole wheel swap thing but i don't know if anyone is counting with the whole 8th place. if so i'll gladly give it up to a DQ or whatever. :)
but most of all i was pretty happy that i rode as well as I did and was as strong as i was. i had no idea i would be so far up before flatting. i feel i probably would have been able to hold 2nd for that last 1.5 laps. so i am pretty stoked to see what happens at the next race.
i did get today off to rest and then i start with some intervals tomorrow and through the rest of the week. i am excited to see where this season is headed!!
after i was done i changed in someone's butthutt and then changed the kids since their clothes were soaked and muddy. eric's race started and the kids and i went hiking to find a good place to watch. there wasn't really anywhere good to watch since it was non stop torrential downpour but ya know. we did walk up by the rugby field that had a sand track around it. seamus asked how far it was around and then said she wanted to run it. so she did. 3 times. she looked so tiny waaaay out there on the other side with her green puffy coat, her pink hello kitty hat and her pink puddle boots just running running running. i don't know about her sometimes.
we were DRENCHED. i decided eric's race was far enough along that we were going to get in the car and hang out. i took the kids boots, coats, sweatshirts and pants off so they were playing in the car in t-shirts and underpants. the last bit of oraganizing i did was in a complete monsoon and i jumped in the car still in my coat which brought a huge puddle to the front seat. i took my drenched coat off and sat on my vest to sop up the wet.
we could see eric every once in a while while we sat in the warm stuffy stinky car listening the mama mia sound track. sara came and hung out with us some, too which was fun. and then eric's race was finally done! he came in 3rd which was impressive since the monsoon hit while he was out there any many people bailed due to mechanicals or just because the conditions were so terrible. i was proud of him!
it was a good race!
then we stopped at BK and i had the best tasting whopper EVER.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
down hill
so its been sort of downhill lately. maybe? i think?
ever since i took that one long workout day off, i am not sure i have gotten my goove back. but maybe i have. i had been doing those crazy long ass weeks and i was doing great, then BAM, i got sick. i took that one day off even though i wasn't feeling terrible. but the sore throat was going and i kept coughing. but then it was on to rest week which i think was fine then on to the first week of the new phase, where i started with some zone 3 stuff. that was going well, i still had the sore throat but i went to the dr and he said he thot it was acid reflux but took the throat culture anyway. i did a 1:25 run on a tuesday! that was nutty but i headed out right from work and ran towards home. eric and the kids met me along the way and they didmy intervals with me. damn those were tough. apparently i was doing them right because i really didn't want to talk at all during each of them. i wasn't dying but i really wasn't amuzed either. heading out was into a head wind and heading back was all tail wind.
that week was the longest week ever because i was waiting to go to SF for the LUNA summit. i went last year and thot that was the greatest weekend ever but it was nothing compared to this time around. eric and the kids woke up friday morning with me at 430 to drop me off at the airport. they are so sweet to do that. the flight was uneventful although it was the first time i flew virgin and it was delux. i landed, got my suitcase and BIKE and next thing i knew allie was there in a giant white truck picking me up! it was so awesome to see her and she had cookies, too! i quickly chowed down two of the cookies and we headed out to do some shopping. allie is the all time best shopping partner. she will tell you flat out if something looks good or not. for instance, black tub socks do not look good with shorts. but no really, she tells it like it is. i wound up with some shorts that i like and she wound up with a green shirt and we split her coupon so that is abonus, too! then we went back to the airport to pick up her parents!! now, allie and i have known each other since i was 3, but we have always been essentially the same age. her parents have known me that entire time too and its funny to think that they have memories of me when i was little like that. anyway, we went for sushi and looked at ceramics and it was just fun. then to berkley for a while and then they dropped me off. i headed over to CLIF for the festivities to begin! all the pros were there this year which was so awesome. once again they are so amazing and i love to listen to how funny they are! we had dinner and learned about the Breast Cancer Fund and then we headed to our hotel.
i was totally freaking out at the prospect of the swim in the morning. yikes! we had some breakfast and then headed out to the sf bay. we got an awesome swim lesson from one of the pros and then we went in. yikes. it was damn cold. i didn't stay in the water for very long though. i had borrowed some awesome booties but also a neoprene hat that really messed with my ears and my neck. and i was wimpy.
back to the hotel and into the shower to get that nastyness off. then some hanging around off for some mtn biking. i was pretty nervous about going out but we started up on the road and kept going up and up on the road. eventually we got onto some trails but then wound up on a fire road for miles and miles and miles. and it was warm! i was happy that i was feeling good and able to keep up. then we went down! the descnet was so awesome! then we went back up!! this time it was steep and narrower and there were switch backs, but i managed to get up the whole thing and keep up! i was pleasantly surpised. then it was down again! the whole ride took about forever and i was tired by the end but it was a great confidence booster and the views were amazing. i guess we had gone up mt tamalpias?
then it was dinner and Q&A with the pros. then a totally stiff margarita to celebrate LaVonne's birthday! then i crashed out. next morning we got up, had breakfast and headed out for more mtn biking. this time it was a steeper more technical trail and we stopped to try a few obsticles. the first one we tried i managed ok. then we tired a trick switch back. i tried three times but couldn't even manage to get to the damn thing and would bail before i even got to it so i was discouraged. but the decent was fun and i was happy to have gone.
once we got back i took my bike apart and packed it up. then changed and had lunch. i had 3 - 1/2 sandwiches because i was starving. then allie came and we ran out to stenson beach. it was hot which i was loving and we had a great run. i was pretty tired by the end but so happy to do it. allie took me back to her house to hang out with her family and parents again, and i had the chance to organize my suitcase and rest a little on the couch. allie's mom made us lamb which was a childhood treat when ihad dinner at their house and then allie took me to the airport. i checked in and then waited. and waited and waited. he flight was totally delayed. wehn i finally landed eric was there and the kids were totally passed out. he had tried to keep the kids awake - seamus made it all the way to 11 and told eric how she had never been awake that late before!
monday at work i moved into my new office which i was happy about because my old office had ants in it but my mid day i was feeling like ASS. i had really started coughing and sneezing and yuck. my coach had given me monday as a rest day and once i told her about how terrible i was feeling, i got tuesday off, too. wednesday i did an easy spin on the trainer ( and watched some nip/tuck) and then some stretching and core work. i bailed on swimming since i still felt bad. thursday was a zn1 run and some plyometrics? and some power cleans? i am so weak the bar was too heavy. there are no other options, but i did try using the lat pull down bar which alowed me to have my hands far enough apart but i almost scraped my face off with the part that you clip onto so i didn't continue with that.
friday i went swiming but it was hard and the coach was just like what the hell when he saw me swimming in the indoor pool but it was damn cold and snowing and i knew the water was going to be cold. and i was sore. way sore from the weights.
i'll tell about today's awesome mtn bike ride later! it was totally fun!
ever since i took that one long workout day off, i am not sure i have gotten my goove back. but maybe i have. i had been doing those crazy long ass weeks and i was doing great, then BAM, i got sick. i took that one day off even though i wasn't feeling terrible. but the sore throat was going and i kept coughing. but then it was on to rest week which i think was fine then on to the first week of the new phase, where i started with some zone 3 stuff. that was going well, i still had the sore throat but i went to the dr and he said he thot it was acid reflux but took the throat culture anyway. i did a 1:25 run on a tuesday! that was nutty but i headed out right from work and ran towards home. eric and the kids met me along the way and they didmy intervals with me. damn those were tough. apparently i was doing them right because i really didn't want to talk at all during each of them. i wasn't dying but i really wasn't amuzed either. heading out was into a head wind and heading back was all tail wind.
that week was the longest week ever because i was waiting to go to SF for the LUNA summit. i went last year and thot that was the greatest weekend ever but it was nothing compared to this time around. eric and the kids woke up friday morning with me at 430 to drop me off at the airport. they are so sweet to do that. the flight was uneventful although it was the first time i flew virgin and it was delux. i landed, got my suitcase and BIKE and next thing i knew allie was there in a giant white truck picking me up! it was so awesome to see her and she had cookies, too! i quickly chowed down two of the cookies and we headed out to do some shopping. allie is the all time best shopping partner. she will tell you flat out if something looks good or not. for instance, black tub socks do not look good with shorts. but no really, she tells it like it is. i wound up with some shorts that i like and she wound up with a green shirt and we split her coupon so that is abonus, too! then we went back to the airport to pick up her parents!! now, allie and i have known each other since i was 3, but we have always been essentially the same age. her parents have known me that entire time too and its funny to think that they have memories of me when i was little like that. anyway, we went for sushi and looked at ceramics and it was just fun. then to berkley for a while and then they dropped me off. i headed over to CLIF for the festivities to begin! all the pros were there this year which was so awesome. once again they are so amazing and i love to listen to how funny they are! we had dinner and learned about the Breast Cancer Fund and then we headed to our hotel.
i was totally freaking out at the prospect of the swim in the morning. yikes! we had some breakfast and then headed out to the sf bay. we got an awesome swim lesson from one of the pros and then we went in. yikes. it was damn cold. i didn't stay in the water for very long though. i had borrowed some awesome booties but also a neoprene hat that really messed with my ears and my neck. and i was wimpy.
back to the hotel and into the shower to get that nastyness off. then some hanging around off for some mtn biking. i was pretty nervous about going out but we started up on the road and kept going up and up on the road. eventually we got onto some trails but then wound up on a fire road for miles and miles and miles. and it was warm! i was happy that i was feeling good and able to keep up. then we went down! the descnet was so awesome! then we went back up!! this time it was steep and narrower and there were switch backs, but i managed to get up the whole thing and keep up! i was pleasantly surpised. then it was down again! the whole ride took about forever and i was tired by the end but it was a great confidence booster and the views were amazing. i guess we had gone up mt tamalpias?
then it was dinner and Q&A with the pros. then a totally stiff margarita to celebrate LaVonne's birthday! then i crashed out. next morning we got up, had breakfast and headed out for more mtn biking. this time it was a steeper more technical trail and we stopped to try a few obsticles. the first one we tried i managed ok. then we tired a trick switch back. i tried three times but couldn't even manage to get to the damn thing and would bail before i even got to it so i was discouraged. but the decent was fun and i was happy to have gone.
once we got back i took my bike apart and packed it up. then changed and had lunch. i had 3 - 1/2 sandwiches because i was starving. then allie came and we ran out to stenson beach. it was hot which i was loving and we had a great run. i was pretty tired by the end but so happy to do it. allie took me back to her house to hang out with her family and parents again, and i had the chance to organize my suitcase and rest a little on the couch. allie's mom made us lamb which was a childhood treat when ihad dinner at their house and then allie took me to the airport. i checked in and then waited. and waited and waited. he flight was totally delayed. wehn i finally landed eric was there and the kids were totally passed out. he had tried to keep the kids awake - seamus made it all the way to 11 and told eric how she had never been awake that late before!
monday at work i moved into my new office which i was happy about because my old office had ants in it but my mid day i was feeling like ASS. i had really started coughing and sneezing and yuck. my coach had given me monday as a rest day and once i told her about how terrible i was feeling, i got tuesday off, too. wednesday i did an easy spin on the trainer ( and watched some nip/tuck) and then some stretching and core work. i bailed on swimming since i still felt bad. thursday was a zn1 run and some plyometrics? and some power cleans? i am so weak the bar was too heavy. there are no other options, but i did try using the lat pull down bar which alowed me to have my hands far enough apart but i almost scraped my face off with the part that you clip onto so i didn't continue with that.
friday i went swiming but it was hard and the coach was just like what the hell when he saw me swimming in the indoor pool but it was damn cold and snowing and i knew the water was going to be cold. and i was sore. way sore from the weights.
i'll tell about today's awesome mtn bike ride later! it was totally fun!
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