Week 16

Why is it that some days when you swim, you can swim so fast with so little effort and other days, no matter what you do, you have to take 30 strokes to make it to the other end of the pool? Sunday I swam 1.2 miles in the pool in 43:20. If I finish that in the race, I will be super happy. Monday when I went swimming, not matter what I did, I just could not get my glide down. It took me 4 more strokes than usual to do one length. It was really weird and it made that workout super long. Sunday, after my swim, I did some water running and then went on the elliptical for 15 more min. Monday, I swam, and then did the elliptical for :40 and lifted. I think I lifted to much because my legs have been shot for the last 2 days. Tuesday night, I was suppose to do a 1:30 bike, but it ended up being 1:00 and then I went for a walk for :30. I just could not get my legs going. Wednesday night, I swam for an hour. Big, exhausting workout and then went home to do my hour bike. I only did :40 of that because I was so hungry. So while the burgers were cooking, I biked. Tonight I will swim and hopefully water run and with the remaining time of my hour run, finish up with the elliptical. I will lift after. Tomorrow will be a rest day, so I will hit the lifting hard tonight. Saturday I have a 3:30 bike. I can't wait until it will be nice enough out to get outside again on the bike. Sunday, I did make it to the Natural Living expo. It was kind of weird to see building green stuff for your house with nutrition, but it was all about "greening" up your life, so it made sense. I stopped at a booth that had metobolic testing. It was free, so why not. I got the results, nothing I wasn't expecting except it was not what I expected it to be. The body fat was where I thought it would be, but it also tested for your hydration level. It said 55.43%. I thought it was just because I just got done working out and didnt drink anything. The guy says, that will effect it maybe by 5%, but that at the most. It should be closer to 70% so now I am working on drinking more water during the day. It is hard. I just keep forgetting about it. Now I have a big, bright green glass that I have at work to remind me to drink. Plus, the constant going to the restroom reminds me that I need to drink more water. Tonight, if I have energy left, and I stop playing with my blackberry, I am going to apply my new spiral graphics to my wheel. It is going to be sweet.

Week 15 wrapping up

Couple exciting things happened this week. First off, my wheel arrived. I put my "new" cassette on it yesterday. It did not want to go on very smooth, so I brought my wheel home and put it on my bike on the trainer so I could make sure it was changing gears smoothly and then played with my bike a little more. I don't have the pump adapter yet, so I cant put the tire on, but it is suppose to be cold this week so I am not in to big of a hurry. I decided to put the 808 on the front for fun to get a picture of the new setup. I can't wait to get it out on the road.

Wednesday, I got on the elliptical for 30 min. after an hour swim. Thursday, I tried out water running for the first time. It was challenging at first to run normal, but I soon got that figured out and ran for 45 min. It was a nice workout. It really worked my quads. I have been icing my foot all week and it seems to be helping a lot. Today the pain is almost completely gone. I had a 3:15 bike today and took my dog for a walk immediately following and it kind of "acted" up at the end of the walk, but that is all it has bothered me in the last 2 days. Tomorrow, I am going to have an hour swim and then water run for an hour, then I will probably get on the elliptical for :30. It takes a lot to get your heart rate up water running. I am going to stop by the Natural Living Expo on Sunday also. Not really sure what it is all about but it seems interesting and plus it is free so why not.

Wind, what wind?

This last weekend was so awesome out. Why can't these nice weekends line up with a long bike weekend for me so I can get outside to do it. I had a 2 hour bike Saturday, which I extended by 15 min just because it was nice out. Sunday, I was going to go to the gym to swim, but ended up cleaning my house, tiling my kitchen, cleaning my car and switching out the winter clothes for the summer ones. So no workout. It was a recovery week anyway. This week, I hit it hard on Monday. Had a great swim and then came home for an hour bike. It was almost 70 degrees out, so I ventured outside. Yes, in the 32 mph sustained wind with 45 mph gusts. It really wasn't bad until I turned around to head back home. I had a short 4 mile out to my 6 mile loop of hills that I do. I did that loop twice since it is kind of out of the wind a little bit and then headed home. Well, I had it in the small gear up front and the large gear in back and was still struggling to keep moving. It was like riding up a steep hill for 4 miles straight. I figured this will give me an idea of how that humungous hill in Louisville will be. I even had to peddle hard going downhill when the gusts came. All in all it was a good workout. I would much rather be outside than inside biking. Last night I was inside on the trainer for 2 hours. I did my last Saturday inside bike workout since I was outside last weekend. It was intense! Tonight I am back in the pool and I am going to attempt to get on the elliptical after. I tried it out on Monday for 1 min and it didn't seem to bother my foot at all. If it does bother my foot, I will head back to the downtown Y and try some water running. It will be good to get some "running" in. I miss it.