Week 5

Why is it that I feel guilty? Why is it that I have 256 days until my race and I feel like I am slacking? Why is that when I realize that 256 days is ONLY 36 weeks, I get scared that I am not doing enough? Oh guilt and anxiety. How I missed thee!

Monday
Was tired. Rested.

Tuesday
Got up early and did some spinning at home. Then did some core. Boring and boring.

Wednesday
Woke up super early and swam at my ghetto pool. I will never, ever get over those guys who come into the fast lane and act like they are Michael Phelps, swimming all up over my shit, passing me a mere 5 feet from the wall and flip turning inches from my face. And then getting out of the water 20-30 minutes later after 1800 rest minutes. You know what? BACK OFF. I am swimming over an hour. With 10 second rests. WHAT IS YOUR DEAL!?!? (rant over)

Thursday
Worked late so didn't do any working out today. Plus, I have been having this weird foot and leg issue. I only spun and swam and my whole left leg feels like it is going to fall off. I call it Disney Land Leg. You know how when you do a ton of walking and then when you get into bed at night your legs are just aching and no position is comfortable? That is Disney Land Leg. Then to top it all off, the ball of my left foot is killing me and I have no idea why. It makes me afraid to run. I had a massage this night and Jez (massage guy) tried to tell me that my foot probably hurts because it is overcompensating for my leg hurting and I had to be like, no. They both started the same day. I was like, ow my leg hurts...and so does my foot! Sigh. The massage was just, eh. We didn't have a good energy connection this time.

Friday
I was actually planning on running but I was woken up at 8:30am by my doorbell ringing. It was a security guard from PG&E asking if I had a black Honda? Yes. Well it's blocking the PG&E garage driveway and we can't get our trucks out. Wha? There I was half asleep and confused, staring at the empty space in front of my house where I had parked my car the night before. Many of you maybe thought I had drunk parked but sadly, no. I was very sober, parking my car into a mini spot at 7pm and I remember this because if someone had been in the car with me I would've high-fived them for my amazing paralell parking skillz.

Anywhoo, I ran down to PG&E, 3 blocks from my house, to see my sad little Civic blocking the driveway and several giant PG&E trucks idly waiting for me to move it. I also noticed that my roof mounted, locked, bike rack was gone. I got into the car to move it and it wouldn't start. My ignition was screwed up (and later I realized it wouldn't start because it was in neutral...oops!). A couple of PG&E guys helped my push my car out of the way. Then I waited all day for others: the police, the tow-truck guy and then had to go to work.

You know, I specifically do not keep anything in my car for this reason as this will be time #5 that my car was broken into in 4 years. So...did they break into it and see there wasn't anything there and then were like, well let's take this bike rack? But first let's drive it 3 blocks and park it illegally. I have this image of two junkies meticulously un-installing the rack (they did a great job! NO scratches on the roof!) and then each carrying an end as they "escaped" down the street. Sigh.

Saturday and Sunday
I worked both days so no working out. Just massive guilt feelings.

Swim - 1 hour
Bike - 1 hour
Run - 0
Core - 45 minutes
Total Workout Hours - 2 hours and 45 minutes

Week 4

This week was pretty emotional for me. I have a lot of things in flux in my life right now and am making a conscious effort to work through everything. Needless to say, I didn't work out too much.  Looks like I am already trying to avoid the working out! But it's so early in the season!

Monday - Rest

Yes I did. Last Saturday was so hard that I needed two days to do that. 

Tuesday 

I worked during the day and had a dinner at night so nothing happened this day either.

Here is me last weekend

Wednesday -Spin/Core

Got my crap together and did a morning 60 minute spin at home followed by 40 minutes of core and then some stretching. Then I got my hair cut. Or rather I confused the days and showed up for my appointment. Oops. Anthony fit me in though. Love him!

Thursday - Swim

Drove down to Burlingame to swim and noticed the fairly empty parking lot and was like, huh. It's usually packed. Well, not today because the pool was closed for repairs. Ugh. Checked the Garfield pool schedule on my iPhone (love that!) and saw that lap swim was until 1pm. Flew back to the city and got in a 30 minute swim. My (hot) Russian lifeguard, Steve (not a very Russian name), was there swimming. As soon as I got in the pool he was like HEZ! WHERE have YOU been!?!?! The last time I swum at Garfield was in August. Oops! 

Friday 

I had an appointment in Fairfax so by the time I woke up (slept late because of working the late shift) I had to get moving and then had to go right to work from there. 

Saturday

Worked. No working out.

Sunday - Swim/Run

Met the team in Pleasant Hill, CA. Boy was it cold out! It was actually warmer and sunnier in San Francisco then it was in the East Bay. I would say it was about 50 degrees out which did not make it very attractive to jump into an outdoor pool. Now, somehow I got to be a fast swimmer. I forgot to mention that last week I somehow ended up in the fast lane and the coaches seemed to be ok with that. What that meant was, while other lanes were swimming 2 and 3 sets my lane was swimming 4 sets. I kept looking around at Heidi and Leslie in my lane like, are we in the fast lane? heh. Anyways, Heidi and I made a point NOT to get into the fast lane this time and tried to get in the middle-ish lane. Turns out the entire team thinks they are slow so there were 4-5 people in those lanes and the coaches moved us down and there we were...back in the fast lane. Anyways, we did a two hour swim workout and 15 minutes of those was a marker set to see how many laps we can do in that time. I swam a lot faster than I would've if I had been by myself but I managed to crank out 32 lengths in that time, which is 16 laps and which is an 800 and that makes my 100 time 1:52. 

Here I am getting ready to swim in 50 degree weather

Anyways...

Then we ran for an hour.  Then I had lunch with Doug at El Metate in the city and then I laid in bed for 4 hours and watched Battlestar Galactica. Wow! That show is really getting good. Then I went out to a fundraiser to support the SF Bike Coalition with my new co-worker, Julianne and had beer! Yay

Swim - 2 hours 30 minutes

Bike - 60 minutes

Run - 50 minutes

Core - 45 minutes