This has been kind of a tough week for me. My legs have been sore ever since I was over exuberant in my strength training on Monday. I didn't even do that much, I just get sore very sore from body weight lunges and squats. I did pretty well cleaning up my nutrition. You know, less candy and yummies, more veggies, fruits, brown rice, protein, that stuff. My body was not happy with the initial switch. So yesterday, my hungry tummy was magnetically drawn to the cupcake section of the store. Patriotic cupcakes. How could I resist that? Cupcakes and fruit do not make a quality pre workout meal. I ended up skipping my run and bailing midway through my swim. I made it 1650m total. Thursday I did my swim right after work, 2700m total and felt good and smooth, but then got super tired and skipped my bike.
I've never been a big holiday person. I know I should like them, because everyone else does, but really, I only like them because I get time off work. I like some holidays and some things about them, but right now, with the fireworks scaring the dogs and all, it just is uh, I don't know, not that exciting to me. Right now, Frito is looking to see if he can climb onto the counter to hide. The dryer just isn't safe enough. Against my better judgment, I am letting him into the storage closet.
Yesterday the dogs went to visit Mark at his office for the day and then for an overnight visit. I drove them down in the morning. They love it there. What dog wouldn't love it at the Frito Lay office where they can occasionally head down to the snack room for some samples? I missed them, but it was nice to have a break so I could do some cleaning without them immediately re messing up the house. All that cleaning did wear me out a bit.
This morning I woke up at 3:30 and my friend Todd picked me up to drive down to do a super hard workout on the Uberman course. We got there right at sunrise and warmed up with a short run to try to interpret the map of the run course. I'm not sure we ever figured out what it was. Then a 4 mileish warmup on the bike trying to figure out what the bike course was. This one was mostly obvious, just not sure where the turn arounds were, because the map cuts them off. Then...the fun began. We were doing the bike run course 4 times through-4miles bike, 1 mile run. I did the first bike hard, totally dropped Todd and his little girl legs! Hehehe! That came back and totally bit me in the ass. Well, actually the quads. Then the run. It is 2 loops to make up a mile. Our interpretation took about 5 mins at 6:20 ish pace according to Todd's GPS. Ok, obviously, that is not the course. Next round, a little slower, I drop Todd initially, but he catches up when I miss the first turnaround. Second run starts off at under 6:20 pace, ends around 6:35. We end up at 6 mins with this interpretation of the run course. I take a Clif Shot and bathroom break and then round 3. My legs are not happy with me. I am trying to over bike my abilities. I actually used up all my biking power in the first interval. And I was over biking then. Ouch. 3rd bike interval, Todd stays with me and then drops me on the second turn around when we turn back into the wind.
I would just like to note that I just got up, and moved my bike case out of the storage closet so that Frito could squeeze back into the back corner underneath the stairs and sit on top of the Christmas lights. Spoiled and weird dog. And since I felt sorry for him, the dogs got a bunch of mac and cheese with dinner.
Anyway, the 3rd run I think we probably figured it out mostly, but we are not starting from the right place. Since we are running around 6:30-6:35 pace at this point we stop when we reach that time. 4th interval is ugly for me. My legs are so tired, I have no energy to start the bike. I do what I can. I stay with Todd as long as I can and make up ground on a u-turn. Then the final run. At this point it is almost 7am. People are in the park bbqing hot dogs. Really? My legs feel heavy and no speed. Not like I normally do after the bike. This is what happens when you bike beyond your ability. Ouch. I think we were around the same pace again. We didn't check. Then 10 mins easy jog cool down and back home before 8:30. A little after Todd's curfew, but not too bad.
I did accomplish an ice bath after I got home. I didn't have the whole bag of ice, but I didn't the other day either when I wussed out.
Then I napped for almost the whole day after a migraine set in. Even after taking medicine, it still won't quite go away. I didn't get to it soon enough.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Getting into the uber training
So ice baths are supposed to be good for me. But man, I'm such a sissy, I looked down at my watch :36 into it today and thought omg I'm going to die. My feet were on fire. I freak out when I am cold. Not sure if this has to do with getting hypothermia a few times or just being a sissy. I made it to 1:15, jumped out. Then decided to give it another try and made it another 45 secs. Nope. Freak out. I suppose I will make an attempt at it some other day.
Before this, I did a track workout. It went well running wise even though I was a bit sore going in and had some serious stomach pain going on. I did the whole thing and the pace wasn't too bad, a good improvement over 1.5 weeks ago! So, just what made me sore?
Well, there was the race on Saturday. Then I did an easy 1:30 bike ride on Sunday that turned into a 1:50 ride. And tried to swim easy to cooldown but was achy and tired and only made it 700m.
On Monday I felt pretty good. It was a busy day as usual, with therapy right after work. Then I squeezed in 30 mins of strength work before masters. 1:00 of masters, and then 30 more mins of strength. I decided I really wanted to be strong with uberman coming up, so no slacking on the strength. When I was done, my legs were all wobbly. The swim was moderate difficulty, but had some strength stuff too.
4x50 drill
200 swim
2x{100 on 1:30, 200 on 3:30, 400, it was basically a 300 with the first 100 in 1:30, then 200 in 3:15-3:20, I took the 400 easy and worked on technique}
50 easy
2x50 fly kick on back
2x25 dolphin dive
5mins 20 on 10 off vertical fly kick
5 mins of throwing medicine ball while treading water (tried fly kick, but sank...)
After Masters we had Mr. Cupcakes cupcakes. Genine brought them for us! So awesome!!! I'm not 100% sure what flavors I tasted. I had so many of them and they were all so tasty. We cut the 12 cupcakes into 1/4ths so we could all taste different kinds. Mmmmm. Not really recovery food. But good.
Tuesday I was sooooo sore. I didn't want to do my bike ride. I almost didn't. But Genine and Matt called and asked if I wanted to go, so I did. It was slow, a 1:10 ride at super high cadence. I'm glad I did it. Sometimes doing something easy is better than doing nothing, it is hard to say somtimes, but I wanted to try to stick to my schedule and see how things worked out.
Today I was still super sore. But, no backing out of the workout, because Genine was going to join me. And it turned out ok. We ran 20 mins easy, did some strides and then got into our workout. 2x800 w/ 3:00 rest in 3:05 and 3:02, 6x400 w/ 90 sec rest in 89, 83, 86, 94, 86, 86, and then 1 mile cooldown. I realized when I got home, that I sort of interpreted how I was supposed to do the 400's wrong, but oh well. It still felt pretty good and it was much better that I expected with the soreness and stomach ache and all.
Before this, I did a track workout. It went well running wise even though I was a bit sore going in and had some serious stomach pain going on. I did the whole thing and the pace wasn't too bad, a good improvement over 1.5 weeks ago! So, just what made me sore?
Well, there was the race on Saturday. Then I did an easy 1:30 bike ride on Sunday that turned into a 1:50 ride. And tried to swim easy to cooldown but was achy and tired and only made it 700m.
On Monday I felt pretty good. It was a busy day as usual, with therapy right after work. Then I squeezed in 30 mins of strength work before masters. 1:00 of masters, and then 30 more mins of strength. I decided I really wanted to be strong with uberman coming up, so no slacking on the strength. When I was done, my legs were all wobbly. The swim was moderate difficulty, but had some strength stuff too.
4x50 drill
200 swim
2x{100 on 1:30, 200 on 3:30, 400, it was basically a 300 with the first 100 in 1:30, then 200 in 3:15-3:20, I took the 400 easy and worked on technique}
50 easy
2x50 fly kick on back
2x25 dolphin dive
5mins 20 on 10 off vertical fly kick
5 mins of throwing medicine ball while treading water (tried fly kick, but sank...)
After Masters we had Mr. Cupcakes cupcakes. Genine brought them for us! So awesome!!! I'm not 100% sure what flavors I tasted. I had so many of them and they were all so tasty. We cut the 12 cupcakes into 1/4ths so we could all taste different kinds. Mmmmm. Not really recovery food. But good.
Tuesday I was sooooo sore. I didn't want to do my bike ride. I almost didn't. But Genine and Matt called and asked if I wanted to go, so I did. It was slow, a 1:10 ride at super high cadence. I'm glad I did it. Sometimes doing something easy is better than doing nothing, it is hard to say somtimes, but I wanted to try to stick to my schedule and see how things worked out.
Today I was still super sore. But, no backing out of the workout, because Genine was going to join me. And it turned out ok. We ran 20 mins easy, did some strides and then got into our workout. 2x800 w/ 3:00 rest in 3:05 and 3:02, 6x400 w/ 90 sec rest in 89, 83, 86, 94, 86, 86, and then 1 mile cooldown. I realized when I got home, that I sort of interpreted how I was supposed to do the 400's wrong, but oh well. It still felt pretty good and it was much better that I expected with the soreness and stomach ache and all.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Philadelphia Sprint Tri Race Report
A few notes about the race before I get into the report.
-Getting to the race early, is extremely important! I barely made it to my start on time when the traffic into the park was slow, packet pickup line was slow, bathroom line was slow, etc. I got there 1:45 before my start...obviously, not early enough.
-While I am happy to win an AG award, I am getting a little frustrated barely missing out on the overall podium race after race this year. Little mistakes kept me off this time. I need to iron some things out. I am a better athlete than this and can do better.
Okay onto the report.
As I said I got there and had to rush. Barely got my wetsuit on as the national anthem was being sung. Then into the water.
Swim: 900m, some against current, some with current, 14:23, 74/1436, 17/518 women.
My group was the first wave. There was a bit of a current. More than I remember in previous years. As we were waiting to start, it was pushing us back a little. We were all anxious to start. I had no warm up...but oh well. Finally, here we go! It is crowded for a maybe 100 or so. I only get a little contact some people hitting my feet, a handful of someones butt, pretty normal stuff. Then it is pretty smooth swimming from there. I start to taste a bit of the river. Yuck! I chant "don't-drink-the Schuylkill" with every three strokes. Helped for awhile. I swam well on the out portion to the turn buoys and then had trouble navigating from there. I thought that the buoys were the ones for the direction coming out, so I went off to the left a bit. And then had to cut way back in later. I was off in no mans land by myself for awhile. I finished the swim strong and out of the water well and out of the old wetsuit top smoothly.
T1: 1:36 This was a long transition area and I had some issues here. I had to run around some volunteers that were blocking the way to my rack. Wetsuit came off ok. Whew! Before the race, the clip on my helmet just fell off! No warning. I was running behind and had to fix it last minute. Apparently, I fixed it backwards, so when I went to snap it it wouldn't snap. AHHHHH! I spent a long time in transition trying to get that darn thing to snap. I finally got it on and went sprinting though transition with my bike. I was all the way at the other end, so had to run the whole way with my bike. My HR was probably over 200 when I got to the mount line.
Bike: 24k, 45:20, mostly flat with a few hills, a lot of turns, 103/1436, 10/518 women
I go to mount my bike and my hr is so crazy I cant get on. That and the 12 year old girl in front of me is still running down the street with her bike and I hear mom yell something like "Honey, get on your bike now!" and start laughing.
Finally I get on my stinking bike and get going. I need to practice this when I am crazy tired and hr is high and I am frantic like in a race. I pass the girl and tell her good job. She is adorable. Then I get passed by a 16 year old. Did I sign up for the juniors race on accident? I ended up going back and forth with her a lot of the race. I would get an advantage on u-turns, corners, downhills, etc, and she would pass me on uphills and you know, stuff that actually takes fitness as opposed to skill you acquire with old age :) The first loop was good as there was one woman (Kate) ahead of us (after I passed a couple in the first mile or so). I felt like I was biking well, but I guess with all the turns and with some confusion about what side of the cones to go on etc, maybe not as fast as I thought. Second loop was lots and lots of people. A few close calls. One guy almost started moved out on me as I was passing and I yelled "Watch it!" And 16 year old was passing someone they collided and both wobbled and bumped shoulders. Thankfully they both stayed upright. I was very happy when the bike was over. I finished right behind the 16year old, since she cruised past me as I was slow around the last uturn watching for people.
T2: 1:09, Good! I came in right behind the girl and had trouble passing her as there was no room. Finally, I squeaked by her on the right and quickly got to my rack, shoes on, grab my number and go! I beat her out!
Run: 5k, 21:05, flat, long stretch out and back, I think it may have been long. 40/1436, 2/518 women.
I started off quick. I was pretty sure there was only one person out on the course at this point but I didn't know how far ahead. And the girl looked like she could run and I didn't want her to be able to catch back up to me. The first little section was on grass and then onto the road. I could see way up the road and no one was there. Sigh. Keep moving. I counted my breaths to keep them slow and calm and to keep me entertained.
Then, maybe at 3/4 of a mile or so, I don't know, I saw someone ahead! I was quickly catching up. Then someone on the other side heading to the finish?? What the heck?! No way! I passed first place and she says "Hi! I'm Kate!" I think I said Hi, or good job or something. And then she said that the other women only did one loop of the bike. Oh, ok. I keep heading up the road. 1 mile in 6:35 or so. I felt like I was running quick, but getting nowhere. I took two cups of water at the aid station and dumped them on my head. Sweet relief! Then I saw another women running to the finish. Is she in our wave? Is she really ahead by this much? At the turnaround I had been running for over 11.5 mins. Really? For a 5k. It is almost out and back. That would put me at 23 mins! Anyway. I see I have some room to breathe. I will beat the other ladies behind me if I hold it together. It was a long lonely run back. It is hard to push when you are out front alone. When I finally could see the finish line, I saw Beth and Oscar. I put in an extra finishing kick and hoped it was good enough.
Overall: 1:23:36, 36/1436, 4/518 women, 1st 25-29 women.
It was fun to see Beth and Oscar, so nice of them to come down to watch and to nice to meet Kate. Here's a picture of me and Beth after the race. She was there doing her workout to prep for Sunday race (she got second in a super competitive race!)
I checked the results and saw I was third which I was excited about and then waited for awards. Then at the awards it turns out I was 4th after one of the later waves finished. Sigh, gotta make sure you check the results after the later waves are done. I was 4th by 13 seconds, which easily could have been attributed to me fumbling with my helmet or I could have run down if I was head to head. But what can you do? It is what it is. I can only work to be better next time.
-Getting to the race early, is extremely important! I barely made it to my start on time when the traffic into the park was slow, packet pickup line was slow, bathroom line was slow, etc. I got there 1:45 before my start...obviously, not early enough.
-While I am happy to win an AG award, I am getting a little frustrated barely missing out on the overall podium race after race this year. Little mistakes kept me off this time. I need to iron some things out. I am a better athlete than this and can do better.
Okay onto the report.
As I said I got there and had to rush. Barely got my wetsuit on as the national anthem was being sung. Then into the water.
Swim: 900m, some against current, some with current, 14:23, 74/1436, 17/518 women.
My group was the first wave. There was a bit of a current. More than I remember in previous years. As we were waiting to start, it was pushing us back a little. We were all anxious to start. I had no warm up...but oh well. Finally, here we go! It is crowded for a maybe 100 or so. I only get a little contact some people hitting my feet, a handful of someones butt, pretty normal stuff. Then it is pretty smooth swimming from there. I start to taste a bit of the river. Yuck! I chant "don't-drink-the Schuylkill" with every three strokes. Helped for awhile. I swam well on the out portion to the turn buoys and then had trouble navigating from there. I thought that the buoys were the ones for the direction coming out, so I went off to the left a bit. And then had to cut way back in later. I was off in no mans land by myself for awhile. I finished the swim strong and out of the water well and out of the old wetsuit top smoothly.
T1: 1:36 This was a long transition area and I had some issues here. I had to run around some volunteers that were blocking the way to my rack. Wetsuit came off ok. Whew! Before the race, the clip on my helmet just fell off! No warning. I was running behind and had to fix it last minute. Apparently, I fixed it backwards, so when I went to snap it it wouldn't snap. AHHHHH! I spent a long time in transition trying to get that darn thing to snap. I finally got it on and went sprinting though transition with my bike. I was all the way at the other end, so had to run the whole way with my bike. My HR was probably over 200 when I got to the mount line.
Bike: 24k, 45:20, mostly flat with a few hills, a lot of turns, 103/1436, 10/518 women
I go to mount my bike and my hr is so crazy I cant get on. That and the 12 year old girl in front of me is still running down the street with her bike and I hear mom yell something like "Honey, get on your bike now!" and start laughing.
Finally I get on my stinking bike and get going. I need to practice this when I am crazy tired and hr is high and I am frantic like in a race. I pass the girl and tell her good job. She is adorable. Then I get passed by a 16 year old. Did I sign up for the juniors race on accident? I ended up going back and forth with her a lot of the race. I would get an advantage on u-turns, corners, downhills, etc, and she would pass me on uphills and you know, stuff that actually takes fitness as opposed to skill you acquire with old age :) The first loop was good as there was one woman (Kate) ahead of us (after I passed a couple in the first mile or so). I felt like I was biking well, but I guess with all the turns and with some confusion about what side of the cones to go on etc, maybe not as fast as I thought. Second loop was lots and lots of people. A few close calls. One guy almost started moved out on me as I was passing and I yelled "Watch it!" And 16 year old was passing someone they collided and both wobbled and bumped shoulders. Thankfully they both stayed upright. I was very happy when the bike was over. I finished right behind the 16year old, since she cruised past me as I was slow around the last uturn watching for people.
T2: 1:09, Good! I came in right behind the girl and had trouble passing her as there was no room. Finally, I squeaked by her on the right and quickly got to my rack, shoes on, grab my number and go! I beat her out!
Run: 5k, 21:05, flat, long stretch out and back, I think it may have been long. 40/1436, 2/518 women.
I started off quick. I was pretty sure there was only one person out on the course at this point but I didn't know how far ahead. And the girl looked like she could run and I didn't want her to be able to catch back up to me. The first little section was on grass and then onto the road. I could see way up the road and no one was there. Sigh. Keep moving. I counted my breaths to keep them slow and calm and to keep me entertained.
Then, maybe at 3/4 of a mile or so, I don't know, I saw someone ahead! I was quickly catching up. Then someone on the other side heading to the finish?? What the heck?! No way! I passed first place and she says "Hi! I'm Kate!" I think I said Hi, or good job or something. And then she said that the other women only did one loop of the bike. Oh, ok. I keep heading up the road. 1 mile in 6:35 or so. I felt like I was running quick, but getting nowhere. I took two cups of water at the aid station and dumped them on my head. Sweet relief! Then I saw another women running to the finish. Is she in our wave? Is she really ahead by this much? At the turnaround I had been running for over 11.5 mins. Really? For a 5k. It is almost out and back. That would put me at 23 mins! Anyway. I see I have some room to breathe. I will beat the other ladies behind me if I hold it together. It was a long lonely run back. It is hard to push when you are out front alone. When I finally could see the finish line, I saw Beth and Oscar. I put in an extra finishing kick and hoped it was good enough. Overall: 1:23:36, 36/1436, 4/518 women, 1st 25-29 women.
It was fun to see Beth and Oscar, so nice of them to come down to watch and to nice to meet Kate. Here's a picture of me and Beth after the race. She was there doing her workout to prep for Sunday race (she got second in a super competitive race!)
I checked the results and saw I was third which I was excited about and then waited for awards. Then at the awards it turns out I was 4th after one of the later waves finished. Sigh, gotta make sure you check the results after the later waves are done. I was 4th by 13 seconds, which easily could have been attributed to me fumbling with my helmet or I could have run down if I was head to head. But what can you do? It is what it is. I can only work to be better next time.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Days off
Two days off so far this week. Unplanned of course. Tuesday my legs were aching tired even walking the dogs. They felt too sore even to do an easy run. Wednesday they felt a little better, just a little tired and achy. I ran 45 mins in the am with 4x90 secs hard with 2 mins easy. After work I swam. Still a little off. The butterfly workout on Monday combined with the harder last week wiped me out. Not to mention crappy nutrition on Monday. Since I was still tired, I cut a chunk out of the swim down from 3700m to a much more manageable 2500m.
400 wu
8x50 drill IM order
4x200 on 3:30 in around 3:15, sprinting 50 at 100
4x100 on 1:45 in around 1:35, sprinting 50 at 25
8x50m kick on :55 in around :45's w/ fins
100m cd
Today I was gonna get up to do my swim. I woke up at 3am with a migraine. Horrible pain. Took awhile for my medicine to kick in and for me to go back to sleep. I figured I would go after work. But some of us from work were going for happy hour, so I had this dumb thought that I would just go for an hour, eat light and maybe swim after. Yeah, right! Mini burger, spinach artichoke dip and a beer later, I was still contemplating swimming. Seriously. But on the drive home my stomach was not feeling great. I thought about exiting for the pool, but I was there for 3 hours, it was after 8 already and really, not properly fueled for a swim workout. I did have fun at happy hour.
Philly Sprint Tri is on Saturday! Soon!!! My wetsuit has been off with Orca for 2 weeks. The guy at SBR said that it would be back in 2 weeks. Sigh. I guess I will wear the old one. Should be fun! I'm looking forward to seeing Beth, Oscar, Bri, Marty, Tassie, and others out there! I'm almost thinking about watching the race Sunday, but that would require a drive back down at the crack of dawn on Sunday am so maybe not.
400 wu
8x50 drill IM order
4x200 on 3:30 in around 3:15, sprinting 50 at 100
4x100 on 1:45 in around 1:35, sprinting 50 at 25
8x50m kick on :55 in around :45's w/ fins
100m cd
Today I was gonna get up to do my swim. I woke up at 3am with a migraine. Horrible pain. Took awhile for my medicine to kick in and for me to go back to sleep. I figured I would go after work. But some of us from work were going for happy hour, so I had this dumb thought that I would just go for an hour, eat light and maybe swim after. Yeah, right! Mini burger, spinach artichoke dip and a beer later, I was still contemplating swimming. Seriously. But on the drive home my stomach was not feeling great. I thought about exiting for the pool, but I was there for 3 hours, it was after 8 already and really, not properly fueled for a swim workout. I did have fun at happy hour.
Philly Sprint Tri is on Saturday! Soon!!! My wetsuit has been off with Orca for 2 weeks. The guy at SBR said that it would be back in 2 weeks. Sigh. I guess I will wear the old one. Should be fun! I'm looking forward to seeing Beth, Oscar, Bri, Marty, Tassie, and others out there! I'm almost thinking about watching the race Sunday, but that would require a drive back down at the crack of dawn on Sunday am so maybe not.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Good tired
Well, I am exhausted! In a good way. Sort of. I finished up a hard training week on Sunday with a 1:20 run in the morning with 15 mins tempo at the end. Frito got chased and attacked by 2 cats in our neighborhood during the run and was all jumpy and scared from all the balloons people had tied to their mailboxes in celebration of graduation. Tough run for him, but he's still a happy little guy. I was super hungry and thirsty at the end. And tired. Ugh. I had scheduled a 1:30 massage and I wanted to swim first, so no time to nap!
Off to the pool for a super slow swim. I got so hungry in the middle that I got out and drank some of my protein smoothie.
200wu
4x100-50 swim, 50 kick
8x50-25 drill, 25 swim (mixed this up between fingertip drag and one arm drills)
4x200 w/ :15 rest in around 3:25's?
200cd
2000m total
After all this and my massage, I was wiped out!
Monday is and was a long day. Work was not too bad, but I didn't get time to go out for lunch and didn't get enough to eat.
Right after work I went to therapy. So first I talked about some of the things I had discussed in my previous post. Then about a few things that happened during the week. Two weeks prior he had asked me to bring in some things about myself or just things I wanted to talk about, not problem related, just anything. I found this to be a difficult task, without having a clear definition of what I had to do, what the "right answer" was. So I didn't bring anything with me. So, he asked me to look up and read a blog post of mine that I liked right there. This was hard for me. I have a hard time in some situations breaking out of certain roles, or knowing what to do when the choice is given to me. In this situation, I felt enormous pressure. I felt like it was a test. I had to pick something good. Something that would be worth the time to discuss in therapy. I kept trying to get him to give me some sort of direction. What did he want to hear. He was the expert. Once I finally made my own decision of what to read, I then grew very inpatient when the computer was slow and I had trouble using it because it was different. This is very typical of me--when I am in new and different situations and something doesn't' go right, I grow very inpatient, very agitated. Finally, I just read the entry that was in front of me. And then we discussed the whole situation. How I have trouble when I am in situations that don't have structure or rules or I don't understand the rules. How I am struggling now, because a lot of the structure I used to have in my life is gone, and I am trying to figure out how I can live without being so rigid and hard on myself, but accomplish the things that I want to accomplish. I also realized that even though sometimes I do bring my own opinions or thoughts forward in situations, it is so ingrained in me to look to authority figures or experts or rules or whatever to tell me what the right thing to do or say or think is. And that is something I want to work on. So it was a challenging but good session.
I was so hungry when I left. I stopped at Borders because it was closest to the pool and was going to get a Naked smoothie, but somehow ended up leaving with a coffee milkshake and lemon loaf. Almost as soon as I started my bike ride, I was quite nauseous and totally regretted my decision. I almost turned around, but decided to plug along. Turns out, I was also heading into a major headwind and once I turned, the ride was much nicer. I did the full workout, which was almost 1 hour of biking with 3x{60-50-40-30-20 sec sprints starting every 2-3 mins}. 1 min is a long time to sprint. I kept looking down and thinking, am I done, and it was only 40 secs or something!
Then to the pool which was almost all butterfly drills. Whoa. I am out of shape for that.
400 wu
200 drill
100 bk/br
4x25 dolphin diving (this was so fun!!!!!!)
4x25 fly kick on side
10x25 fly kick on back, streamline
4x25 fly kick on back, arms at sides
10x:15 on :15 off vertical fly kick
4x5 times dolphin jumps (funny but hard!)
4x25 fly w/ right arm down, left back
4x25 fly 2 strokes each arm
4x25 fly 2 strokes each arm, then 2 full strokes
4x25 fly
25 fly
25 free
100 elementary back
100 free cd
2000m total
Whew!
I was wiped out when I got home. So tired I didn't want to make dinner. I scrounged around for food but probably didn't eat enough. I was wiped out all day today.
Off to the pool for a super slow swim. I got so hungry in the middle that I got out and drank some of my protein smoothie.
200wu
4x100-50 swim, 50 kick
8x50-25 drill, 25 swim (mixed this up between fingertip drag and one arm drills)
4x200 w/ :15 rest in around 3:25's?
200cd
2000m total
After all this and my massage, I was wiped out!
Monday is and was a long day. Work was not too bad, but I didn't get time to go out for lunch and didn't get enough to eat.
Right after work I went to therapy. So first I talked about some of the things I had discussed in my previous post. Then about a few things that happened during the week. Two weeks prior he had asked me to bring in some things about myself or just things I wanted to talk about, not problem related, just anything. I found this to be a difficult task, without having a clear definition of what I had to do, what the "right answer" was. So I didn't bring anything with me. So, he asked me to look up and read a blog post of mine that I liked right there. This was hard for me. I have a hard time in some situations breaking out of certain roles, or knowing what to do when the choice is given to me. In this situation, I felt enormous pressure. I felt like it was a test. I had to pick something good. Something that would be worth the time to discuss in therapy. I kept trying to get him to give me some sort of direction. What did he want to hear. He was the expert. Once I finally made my own decision of what to read, I then grew very inpatient when the computer was slow and I had trouble using it because it was different. This is very typical of me--when I am in new and different situations and something doesn't' go right, I grow very inpatient, very agitated. Finally, I just read the entry that was in front of me. And then we discussed the whole situation. How I have trouble when I am in situations that don't have structure or rules or I don't understand the rules. How I am struggling now, because a lot of the structure I used to have in my life is gone, and I am trying to figure out how I can live without being so rigid and hard on myself, but accomplish the things that I want to accomplish. I also realized that even though sometimes I do bring my own opinions or thoughts forward in situations, it is so ingrained in me to look to authority figures or experts or rules or whatever to tell me what the right thing to do or say or think is. And that is something I want to work on. So it was a challenging but good session.
I was so hungry when I left. I stopped at Borders because it was closest to the pool and was going to get a Naked smoothie, but somehow ended up leaving with a coffee milkshake and lemon loaf. Almost as soon as I started my bike ride, I was quite nauseous and totally regretted my decision. I almost turned around, but decided to plug along. Turns out, I was also heading into a major headwind and once I turned, the ride was much nicer. I did the full workout, which was almost 1 hour of biking with 3x{60-50-40-30-20 sec sprints starting every 2-3 mins}. 1 min is a long time to sprint. I kept looking down and thinking, am I done, and it was only 40 secs or something!
Then to the pool which was almost all butterfly drills. Whoa. I am out of shape for that.
400 wu
200 drill
100 bk/br
4x25 dolphin diving (this was so fun!!!!!!)
4x25 fly kick on side
10x25 fly kick on back, streamline
4x25 fly kick on back, arms at sides
10x:15 on :15 off vertical fly kick
4x5 times dolphin jumps (funny but hard!)
4x25 fly w/ right arm down, left back
4x25 fly 2 strokes each arm
4x25 fly 2 strokes each arm, then 2 full strokes
4x25 fly
25 fly
25 free
100 elementary back
100 free cd
2000m total
Whew!
I was wiped out when I got home. So tired I didn't want to make dinner. I scrounged around for food but probably didn't eat enough. I was wiped out all day today.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Me, me, me
Rain rain and more rain. It is getting a little old. Where is summer?
Thursday it was raining a lot. Our girls summer runs were cancelled until July due to lack of attendance. Just as well, my legs and butt were tired/sore from riding my bike hard on Wednesday. I did strength training and stretching instead and called that good.
Friday I had an appointment at the neurologist. I got up early and got to work early so I could leave for my appointment. Unfortunately, it was not as helpful as I had hoped. I wanted answers!!!! Something different from what I have been hearing, something to help make things better. I was told that stress reduction was important, maybe I should incorporate some breathing techniques. I was also told to keep my dietary and sleeping habits consistent--no crazy changes. And to take some new supplements that often help people with migraines. He also originally suggested increasing another one of my medications, but I have done that before and I turn into a sleepy zombie. So, I go back in 5 weeks. I am going to track my food, sleep, migraines, mood, all of that. And take the supplements. And see how that works. If not, medication might be changed again.
After my appointment, I went to the pool to swim. I felt a little sluggish in the water, and my butt was still sore, I could feel it when I kicked!
400wu
8x50-drill down, swim back on 1:00
5x100IM on 2:00 in 1:45-1:50, the fly was not pretty, but I did it
5x200 w/ :15 rest in 3:07, 3:10, pull=slow, 3:05, 3:15
5x100IM on 2:00 in 1:45-1:50 and the fly got uglier...
5x50 kick 25 easy, 25 hard
100 cd
3150m total
I was going to do track afterwards but I was hungry and tired and then took a nap and never did do the track workout.
It was raining today. Yuck! I'm sick of it! I swam early. Jumped in with Coach Matt when I got there and swam with him and Oscar, etc. Well, Oscar more swam really fast way ahead. I tried hard to keep up with Matt as long as I could. It was a good challenge for me.
500m wu
3x{300 on 4:45, 200 on 3:00, 100 easy (I think the rest times may have been stretched a couple times), the last 200 I shortened to 150, did 300's in low 4:30's, 4:37, 4:41, 200's in 2:58, 3:10? whoops!, ??? for 150, 100s' in 1:35-1:45}
5x100 easy on 1:45, did 50m of backstroke on 1, 3, 5
200 cd with breast and back mixed in
2950m total
Very good workout for me, I didn't think I would make it under the interval time for the 300's but I did, and I did on the first 200 too! Yay!
Then for the track. With Uberman approaching, this is important!!! I ran 2 miles wu, did 4 strides and then did 8x400m w/ 200 jog recoveries. I was trying to do them as first 2 in 90, then all out for two, then repeat this...my times were 89, 91, 88, 88, 90, 91, 88, 91. Not a whole lot of leg speed right now. 88 was me trying to go fast. We will see, track takes time for me to get used to. I am not a natural speedster.
I got good and stretched out and did some abs and hit the store for a protein smoothie and some fresh fruit. Almost hit the cupcake section but was too hungry to make it that far.
I go to therapy again on Monday. I need to prepare ahead of time. Instead of talking about my problems as much, we are going to talk about me, to help me develop a sense of who I am beyond shallow interpretation that people often see and often that I allow myself to be interpreted as. Working on figuring out what there is too me beyond my career, triathlon, things that I do. That is stuff I do, yes, but it isn't me. Who am I aside from all that?
People who don't know me that well often think that I have such a great life. Just yesterday I was talking to someone and she jokingly said "Can I be you?" I do have a lot of great things going for me. On the surface, I have a good job, am a good athlete, have accomplished/done a lot of things in my 29 years, I am attractive, and many people seem to like me. Underneath that though, my confidence in myself and my abilities and my willingness to share myself with others are some of the things I like most about myself.
So I thought I would start listing out some of my characteristics, things that describe me:
Confidence in myself--this has grown throughout the years, particularly in the last few years and I have found that this confidence is one of the things that has helped me to become much happier.
Care and genuine interest for others--I care about the people in my life and take a genuine interest in them. I am thoughtful and willing to help both people in my life and people I just meet.
Laughter--I love to have fun and laugh and be silly in just about every situation
Forgiving--I have done a lot of forgiving, especially in the past year, and it is something I am working on continually. It is a hard process, especially when someone has really hurt you.
Serious--as much as I like having fun, I also have a very serious intense side--the work hard, get things done, sometimes a little too hard on myself side
Passionate--I am passionate about the things and people I care about and am interested in
Independent--this is a work in progress as I learn to rely on myself emotionally, financially, everything to be a strong independent kick ass woman
Honesty--being honest with the people in my life, and expecting honesty back from them
Trusting--I am a very trusting person, I give people in my life my trust and only take it away when it is continually broken
Original--In the past, I have let my husband, or boyfriends influence my decisions, but I have always been very unique, and am now deciding things on my own standard and being a 100% original.
Okay, so that is the list for now, I have to add more, but I am hungry!
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. ~Foe Ancis
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. ~Author Unknown
Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. ~Author Unknown
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville
Thursday it was raining a lot. Our girls summer runs were cancelled until July due to lack of attendance. Just as well, my legs and butt were tired/sore from riding my bike hard on Wednesday. I did strength training and stretching instead and called that good.
Friday I had an appointment at the neurologist. I got up early and got to work early so I could leave for my appointment. Unfortunately, it was not as helpful as I had hoped. I wanted answers!!!! Something different from what I have been hearing, something to help make things better. I was told that stress reduction was important, maybe I should incorporate some breathing techniques. I was also told to keep my dietary and sleeping habits consistent--no crazy changes. And to take some new supplements that often help people with migraines. He also originally suggested increasing another one of my medications, but I have done that before and I turn into a sleepy zombie. So, I go back in 5 weeks. I am going to track my food, sleep, migraines, mood, all of that. And take the supplements. And see how that works. If not, medication might be changed again.
After my appointment, I went to the pool to swim. I felt a little sluggish in the water, and my butt was still sore, I could feel it when I kicked!
400wu
8x50-drill down, swim back on 1:00
5x100IM on 2:00 in 1:45-1:50, the fly was not pretty, but I did it
5x200 w/ :15 rest in 3:07, 3:10, pull=slow, 3:05, 3:15
5x100IM on 2:00 in 1:45-1:50 and the fly got uglier...
5x50 kick 25 easy, 25 hard
100 cd
3150m total
I was going to do track afterwards but I was hungry and tired and then took a nap and never did do the track workout.
It was raining today. Yuck! I'm sick of it! I swam early. Jumped in with Coach Matt when I got there and swam with him and Oscar, etc. Well, Oscar more swam really fast way ahead. I tried hard to keep up with Matt as long as I could. It was a good challenge for me.
500m wu
3x{300 on 4:45, 200 on 3:00, 100 easy (I think the rest times may have been stretched a couple times), the last 200 I shortened to 150, did 300's in low 4:30's, 4:37, 4:41, 200's in 2:58, 3:10? whoops!, ??? for 150, 100s' in 1:35-1:45}
5x100 easy on 1:45, did 50m of backstroke on 1, 3, 5
200 cd with breast and back mixed in
2950m total
Very good workout for me, I didn't think I would make it under the interval time for the 300's but I did, and I did on the first 200 too! Yay!
Then for the track. With Uberman approaching, this is important!!! I ran 2 miles wu, did 4 strides and then did 8x400m w/ 200 jog recoveries. I was trying to do them as first 2 in 90, then all out for two, then repeat this...my times were 89, 91, 88, 88, 90, 91, 88, 91. Not a whole lot of leg speed right now. 88 was me trying to go fast. We will see, track takes time for me to get used to. I am not a natural speedster.
I got good and stretched out and did some abs and hit the store for a protein smoothie and some fresh fruit. Almost hit the cupcake section but was too hungry to make it that far.
I go to therapy again on Monday. I need to prepare ahead of time. Instead of talking about my problems as much, we are going to talk about me, to help me develop a sense of who I am beyond shallow interpretation that people often see and often that I allow myself to be interpreted as. Working on figuring out what there is too me beyond my career, triathlon, things that I do. That is stuff I do, yes, but it isn't me. Who am I aside from all that?
People who don't know me that well often think that I have such a great life. Just yesterday I was talking to someone and she jokingly said "Can I be you?" I do have a lot of great things going for me. On the surface, I have a good job, am a good athlete, have accomplished/done a lot of things in my 29 years, I am attractive, and many people seem to like me. Underneath that though, my confidence in myself and my abilities and my willingness to share myself with others are some of the things I like most about myself.
So I thought I would start listing out some of my characteristics, things that describe me:
Confidence in myself--this has grown throughout the years, particularly in the last few years and I have found that this confidence is one of the things that has helped me to become much happier.
Care and genuine interest for others--I care about the people in my life and take a genuine interest in them. I am thoughtful and willing to help both people in my life and people I just meet.
Laughter--I love to have fun and laugh and be silly in just about every situation
Forgiving--I have done a lot of forgiving, especially in the past year, and it is something I am working on continually. It is a hard process, especially when someone has really hurt you.
Serious--as much as I like having fun, I also have a very serious intense side--the work hard, get things done, sometimes a little too hard on myself side
Passionate--I am passionate about the things and people I care about and am interested in
Independent--this is a work in progress as I learn to rely on myself emotionally, financially, everything to be a strong independent kick ass woman
Honesty--being honest with the people in my life, and expecting honesty back from them
Trusting--I am a very trusting person, I give people in my life my trust and only take it away when it is continually broken
Original--In the past, I have let my husband, or boyfriends influence my decisions, but I have always been very unique, and am now deciding things on my own standard and being a 100% original.
Okay, so that is the list for now, I have to add more, but I am hungry!
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. ~Foe Ancis
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. ~Author Unknown
Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. ~Author Unknown
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Busy
Tuesday was busy! I had to stay late at work and cancel my therapy session. That was a bummer. I did my run when I got home and just a few minutes in I managed to get tangled in the dogs leashes or tried to do some fancy leash jumping hand switching maneuver. The next thing I new I was on the ground rolling onto my side and getting dragged for a bit. Bloody knuckles, knee, and elbow, and seriously scraped up back. I got up, looked around, hoped no one saw and kept running. I felt good other than the blood dripping down my leg and throbbing knee and the irritation from my arms rubbing the scrapes on my back. I ran around 50 mins then rushed to clean off my wounds and then off to masters swim "Suds" night. Unfortunately we happened to go to a bar that also had open mike night. That was...interesting. Anyway, I got home too late and didn't get enough sleep!
Today I biked after work with Matt and Genine. It looked like it was going to rain, but we lucked out! We ended up with just over 50 mins and 4x5 mins hard intervals with 2.5 mins rest. Hard meaning my quads were screaming and I was envisioning myself speeding along at Uberman. Afterwards I swam. My cuts burned a little in the water. And I was one of those horrible people who's bloody bandaids comes off in the pool while swimming. It was a good swim. Not great, but good.
400 wu
200 pull w/ paddles
100 kick
10x50 on 1:00 breathing every 3, 5, 7, 9, 9,7, 5, 3, and then normal (which is three) for the last 2
the 9's and the second 7 killed me!
300 pull with paddles
12x25 kick hard halfway down, easy the rest of the way w/ :10 rest
Easy 300 pull w/ paddles
300 cd stroke mix
2400m total
Oh, and last night we said we wanted a diving class, so I asked about it and I think we may get to have one! How fun!
Today I biked after work with Matt and Genine. It looked like it was going to rain, but we lucked out! We ended up with just over 50 mins and 4x5 mins hard intervals with 2.5 mins rest. Hard meaning my quads were screaming and I was envisioning myself speeding along at Uberman. Afterwards I swam. My cuts burned a little in the water. And I was one of those horrible people who's bloody bandaids comes off in the pool while swimming. It was a good swim. Not great, but good.
400 wu
200 pull w/ paddles
100 kick
10x50 on 1:00 breathing every 3, 5, 7, 9, 9,7, 5, 3, and then normal (which is three) for the last 2
the 9's and the second 7 killed me!
300 pull with paddles
12x25 kick hard halfway down, easy the rest of the way w/ :10 rest
Easy 300 pull w/ paddles
300 cd stroke mix
2400m total
Oh, and last night we said we wanted a diving class, so I asked about it and I think we may get to have one! How fun!
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