Cheers to finishing a rough week, more to come.
Monday- Woke up feeling AWFUL. I was feverish, felt like someone was sitting on my ribs, achy, and stuffy. Where did this come from? Oh I know. So apparently when I don't have a chaotic life and settle down for a few days I get sick. So I opted out on any sort of workout and fell asleep before 9 to prepare for a 5am wakeup Tuesday for work.
Tuesday- Early morning, but was feeling functional. 6 ams have advantages...being done at 2pm. Doesn't matter that much when you have lab in the evening. However, I manage to get on the bike for 1 hour and do some core at the gym. Man I hate the gym.
A picture from Pathophysiology Lab. I am holding an infarcted Lung.
Wed- Worked again early in the morning then class...then felt up for a run...3.1. didn't let myself go over 9 mile/hour pace. my legs wanted to.Thurs- another early 8 hour work day. Got to see some crazy fast marathon teams come in. getting pumped at this point for marathon weekend. had my last day of class (which was stupid..EKG) then did 1 hour 20 min on the bike. I was dead by the time i came home. bed early...
Friday- yet another 7am work start...felt great somehow. i purchased my first pair of vibram fivefingers. I LOVE THEM. my toes are tired right now. They are awesome, highly recommend them. They help strengthen muscles in your toes that you have hardly used before...thus helpign to improve balance, posture, leg strength, etc. We will see how they go and i will let you know.
After a busy day at the store...and working in the shoe department (LOVE IT)...came home and did 4.6 mile run. Held solid 8/sub 8 min miles with my HR not exceeded to 182...mostly in the 170s which is good...not above my threshold. not that i know what my threshold is (2 years ago it was about 88% of my max..and im in better shape now). So, yeah. yahoo.
In other Friday-like news..... horrible news that is...UC Davis cut the mens swimming program as well as 3 other athletic teams. I'm ashamed and very disappointed.....
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=79576&provider=top
Saturday: well, i slept like 11 hours and studied for most of the day. the weather made me extra arthritic so i opted on a day off. Got my stretch on though....bed early for a busy day at CS pre-marathon! and hats off to the collegiate triathlon nationals competitors in Texas....horrible weather. kinda glad i opted out on that!
Sunday: CRAZY workday!!! crazier than Christmas! And i have to admit... every other person was from Canada! Those Canadians really like to run. Anyways, Boston is prepped for the marathon tomorrow...it's goin to be awesome!
On a strange note, on my lunch break i saw a taxi cab blow up into flames. that was random. smoke, fire trucks everywhere
After work I got to stop by the Run Expo then got on the bike for an hour and ran 1.5. For how shitty i felt standing at work, the workout didn't feel too bad. My sprint work really seems to be paying off...its a lot easier to run 8 min/mile pace than it used to be! My goal for my sprint tri in may is to hold 7 30s for the 3.1 run. hmm...TOTALS
3 hours 20 minute bike
9.2 run
ZERO swim- the pool was closed when i wanted to go...wtf. ok, not an excuse.
1 comment:
you beat me this week. on everything but the swim.
nice 4.6 mi run
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