Silly

I don't work well without motivation. I've decided to sign up for an olympic distance triathlon (1k swim, 40k bike, 10k run) in April which doesn't give me a lot of time to train. I'm especially concerned about the run. I've got a plan and I'm trying to be reasonable and not overdo things early. I've hooked up with the Vandy Tri Club for support. Today was my first two-a-day with them in a while. I spent about 50 minutes in the pool and got in about 2500 yards. Then, I had a spin session that lasted every darn minute of the 40 minute workout. I thought we were done after that. I was wrong. We still had ab work left. It was a great workout and I think I'll sleep well tonight--if I don't wake up with my legs cramping!

Back to it.

"It" being regular workouts. At least, I hope.

Having discovered last week at Morgan-Monroe that I am terribly out of running shape, I took it easy today. I ran two miles from my apartment in about 17.5 minutes. I felt pretty good the whole way and I was able to comfortably push, knowing it was a short run. My knee didn't bother me (it did last week on both my runs).

When I got home, I did some core work.

Now, I can eat the rest of the chocolate cake that Rachel left in Bloomington! Yea!

Workout -- Core and Flexibility

I didn't have a lot of time last night for a workout and I didn't want to go outside, so I did the 30 minute strength/flexibility video from the off-season. The workout was quite reasonable, minimal chirpy "you can do its" from the unnaturally fit instructor. I'm a lot less strong and less flexible than anyone who would be expected to hold any of those positions.

So, with a reasonable workout under my belt, I had fried calamari for dinner. Yum!!

Workouts...a bit late

I haven't been a complete slacker, just the blog posting part of me has been slacking. The workouts since the last post are below.

Thursday--did a quick core workout video from the set that Mom and Dad gave me for my birthday. It's an off-season cycling training program that came with yoga and core DVDs. I'm planning to start the 12-week cycle on Monday and try to stick with the program in hopes of improving my bike for the tris. The workout I did was a "bonus" on the core DVD, which included various crunches, leg lifts, and other terrible things that your body isn't intended. Owwww....

Having sorta recovered from that, I had a bit of time on Friday to get a bit of a brick workout in before heading to the Friday Night version of the Grand Ole Opry for the evening. I ran to the gym at a good pace (about 3/4 mile), swam 1200 yards (200 warm up, 1000 swim), then ran back. I think the workout continued when I got home and was ready for the show in 20 minutes. The long swim for the evening was nice in that I was relaxed and I tried to concentrate on finishing my stroke and not breathing off the walls, that is to say that after my flip turns I was trying to not breathe for two strokes into the length. It was a good workout.

Saturday morning, I finally got back on the bike (on the trainer) and did about 45 minutes of spinning at 90-100 rpm while listening to Car Talk. It was an unremarkable workout, but made me tired enough to necessitate a nap in the afternoon. I'll not mention that I was feeling the core workout from Thursday in a pretty major way all day. Gotta love the two day pain delay.

I'm taking today off. I think.