Week 12 Overview

This week was very productive until this weekend. My foot pain came back on Tuesday, but now it is a different place. Still on the top of my foot, but now further down so atleast I dont think it is a stress fracture. It definatly isnt as painful as it was the other week, but it is enough to keep me concerned about it. I swam Monday night for 1:00. Good tough workout. Tuesday I ran first and then biked. I pushed myself harder Tuesday than I normally do. It was just so nice and I felt great. I finally actually got my heart rate up to the 75% mark. Usually I am sitting about 10 beats below that. I ran 5.28 miles in :42. = 7:57/mile average. Awesome! That was including my warm up mile too. Then I came in and did an hour bike. My legs were shot from the running. I am learning that if I have a bike/run combo in the same day, I have to do the bike first if it is anything other than spinning my legs out because if I have to get my heartrate up, my legs just wont put out enough power to do it. I have also noticed on some of my runs that my legs start to get tired, but breathing tired. Now it is starting to occur on the bike. I need to some how get my legs to rest more so that they are fresher so I can get the quality workouts in that I need to. Atleast with the run, I can push through it, the bike I cant get my legs to get moving if they dont want to. Wednesday I had a :45 swim and an hour bike. Fairly easy workout. I did have a good bike that night. Thursday, I switched my Sunday long run and my normal Thursday workout (swim, run) to Sunday so that I could get some recovery time for my foot. I ran 1:25 Thursday night (gorgeous night) and followed that with a :45 bike. Friday is my rest day. Saturday I had planned for a 2:45 bike, but only got 2 hours of that done. My legs just were not going to have it. I couldnt get my heart rate up so I felt I would skip the last bit of the workout instead of just sitting there and not really trying. Today my plan was to switch the run with a bike for extra foot rest time. I am not doing anything today. I am having trouble getting motivated today. It has to be the weather and the time change. It is now noon and I just got out of bed. I didnt even want to make breakfast and that is usually the only reason I get out of bed is because I am starving and want to eat breakfast. I think that is my favorite part of the day - eating breakfast. So today I am not working out. I just dont think my mind will be in it or my body. Maybe not being able to get my heart rate up yesterday was a sign I need to take a break. With these short workouts today, skipping them wont hurt my progress, probably only hurt it if I did them not 100%. So with that being said, I am continuing to ice my foot and trying to stay off it. Not really a problem. Monday I will start in with a swim and Tuesday I will be up and running again. Hopefully pain free.