Week 13

Back in town and planning on getting back on the workout wagon. But first it's New Years Eve!

Monday - NYE
Towed my car to the Honda service center. Turned out to only be the battery. For some reason my battery, that is maybe 2 years old, decided to not hold a charge. Even tho it was a pain, it was a lot cheaper than a fuel injector/timing belt/starter.


Holly came over at 3pm. We started drinking at 4pm and were passed out by 9pm, after a spontaneous dance party to REO Speedwagon in my kitchen. Happy new year! Huzzah.

5pm

7pm

9pm, heh.

Tuesday - Hungover
Vegged out all day and recovered.

Wednesday - Run
Our spin/run workout at Kezar got canceled, but Yi and I still went over there and ran around for 40 minutes. This was my first run since the sprint tri on December 9th and I had instructions from my Chiropractor to take note of how my back was feeling during and after the run. I felt great and Yi and I managed to run the second half of our 40 minutes faster than the first. I also tried out my new CWX tights. They have these panels sewn in them to support your muscles and the claim is that you will have less pain the next day. I think they worked ok.

New tights

Thursday - Spin
I did a light 30 minute spin since, technically, this is a recovery week and I haven't done much lately. I felt pretty good. My back was doing good from the night before. Managed to do some core after spinning.

Friday
I was gonna swim but, nah. Got off from work early because of rain. That seems kinda silly to me, being from the east coast and all.

Saturday - Run and Swim
Deb picked me up and we drove out to Pleasanton to do our run and swim workout with the team. We ran a total of 45 minutes with drills and then hit the pool for an hour workout. The lanes were set to long course (50m). I haven't swum a long course in about 7 or 8 months and during my warm up laps I was dying. My arms were burning and I thought that there was no way I would be able to do this workout. But, as usual, the pain melted away and I got down to just swimming. At one point the coach had us count our number of strokes for one length and i counted 45. When I got to the end coach Alex told me that was a pretty good number since it means I am being efficient. I was pretty surprised that others in my lane had managed about 56-64 strokes, since I just started swimming less than 2 years ago. I felt pretty good after the workouts and came home and took a little snooze.

Sunday - Bike
Not wanting to chance biking in the rain, I stayed home and spun in my kitchen for 60 minutes and then did some core work. Went to Sports Basement to try on wetsuits but they didn't have the one I wanted. Came home, vegged out.