Sunday - Ride
After our long Ironteam Kickoff on Saturday, Heidi and I headed down to Canada Road to tackle our first hill repeat workout. Cycle Coach Dave recommended doing three mile hill repeats on Kings Mountain Road. My first reaction to thats was: Cycle Coach Dave is HIGH.
At my best day, Kings Mountain Road is 4+ miles of a steady incline that is manageable but not that easy.
On my worst day, Kings Mountain Road is me having to stop half way up because I just can't go any further.
I figured that I was somewhere in between my best and worst day as I haven't ridden my bike since July 20 aka Ironman race day, however, I did have some sort of left over fitness from training for 10 months. Right?
Anyways...Heidi and I both decided that Kings Mountain Road was not such a great idea ON DAY ONE so we made up our own special hill repeat route starting at Edgewood and Canada Roads, riding down towards Woodside, hanging a right past the bakery and then another right on to Albion Road for a quick mile, rolling hill road. This route loops around back to Canada and then you can start it all over again. We were slated for 20 miles total. We managed about 18 miles with ten miles out and back from our cars and then about 7 hill repeats.
It felt good to be done with the work out before 11am and even better to have hunger associated with actually moving my body rather than having hunger from just being bored.
Monday - Rest
Yay!
Tuesday - Swim
Already I am skipping workouts! I worked the late shift both Monday and Tuesday nights and decided that it was just too much to be up really late and try to get a swim in before going to work again.
Wednesday - Swim/Run
I decided that, even tho it's kind of far, I would much rather enjoy swimming outside so I headed down to the Burlingame Aquatic Center for their noon lap swim. Wow! That place was empty. I had my own lane. I did my 1,000 yard workout and my marker set for 500 yards or 20 laps -- which may or may not have actually been 22 laps because I lost count at lap 10-ish (10:37-slowwww). By the end of it I was shaking. SHAKING. I think it was from hunger even though I ate cereal and had an Endurox before I left. Luckily I had an Endurox for my ride home and that helped until I got home and could eat.
I was planning on hitting the track workout that evening at Kezar but apparently swimming for 30 minutes was just too much for me and around 2pm I took a nap and didn't wake up til 5pm. I was pretty wiped out so I decided to stay home.
And then I got sick! That pretty much ended my training for the week since a mere 2 block walk to the store would make me sleep for 3 hours. I am not kidding.
I am anxious to get back into it next week, though I am still recovering from my flu thing, and sad that I missed the opportunity to do work outs in the unseasonably warm weather.
Swim - 1,000 yards
Bike - 18 miles
Run - 0
Core - 0
1 comments:
yay! my favorite blog is back! As my ass keeps expanding through all this MBA bullshit, I will live vicariously through you.
PS - where are you working?
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