10.3 miles. Woa.

My lower body was pretty sore after Thursdays workout so I thought a swim would be in order to relieve some of the achiness.

I hit the pool on Friday and worked on swimming 100m straight without stopping. I did that 10 times, and I had a pretty short recovery time between each set (>30 seconds). I didn't stop there though. When I got finally got home from getting work done on campus, I ended up taking the dogs for a 90 minute walk to Castle Island because it was gorgeous out. By the time I got home from the walk, I was ready for bed! I ended up going out, but called it a night around 10:30 because I couldn't stand in my heels anymore!

I took it easy on Saturday and other than playing a little volleyball on the beach with Mike and Liz, I only did about 30 minutes of P90X yoga. Then on Sunday, I ran 10 miles along the Charles River. It was a little rough...especially since I started losing steam at 5 miles. But I pressed on, and realized that once I hit 8 miles it was kinda difficult to stop. I probably could have ran the full 13.1 miles yesterday, but decided to let my body recover from the stress that I just went through. Plus, I was hungry and getting dehydrated (It was 80 degrees!). When I finally stopped after 10.3 miles (1h 44min), I could hardly walk. My knees throbbed and my hips were pretty sore. I walked around for about 5 minutes and got a good stretch in before taking a cold shower.

This morning when I woke up, I had some trouble walking down the stairs because my knees were so sore! I took Jack up to the park after breakfast, and that seemed to help loosen them up. They are fine now, but definitely think I should have iced them after the run yesterday.

I was going to take today and tomorrow off completely, but I just can't. So I'm on my way to the gym to get an upper body and core workout in. Tomorrow will be my off day since I'll be traveling for the majority of it. Can NOT wait to arrive in Phoenix tomorrow with my Swagger ladies!!!! WOOOOO!!!

5 Days Until Nationals

Well I didn't do p90x, but I did run up to the track for a x-training workout.

- 0.5 mile warmup
- 15 pushups, 20 forward lunges, 20 backward lunges, 50 bicycles, 30 situps w/ twist
- 400m run
- side plank walk up the bleachers: 3x each side (pretty sure I made this one up, and it's freeking AWESOME)
- 400m run
- 2x100m sprint w/ 100m recovery
- 15 pushups, 30 V-sits
- 400m run
- 10 burpees with prisoner squat
- 400m run
- 10 mountain climber pushups
- Oblique crunches (20 each side)
- 20 hip-ups
- 0.5 mile cool down


Just finished my post-workout protein shake and I'm feeling great!!! I actually feel like I could workout for another hour or so..... But I will give my body a break so that I can bike more than 20 miles tomorrow. :) Only 5 more days until the Swagger ladies are tearing it up on the court in Phoenix!!! Can't wait!

And I'm back...

First of all, let me just say that I haven't been doing nothing. However, since I haven't written in so long, I can't remember everything. I've also found that because I wasn't writing about it, I wasn't as motivated as normal. I will admit that I've been slacking a little bit, and I'm getting a little frustrated trying to get back to the point I was at before I took a week off -- very stupid move. It set me back a ton!

Since I'm pretty much starting over, I've decided to just start with what I did today and go from there.

During my lunch break, I headed to the pool and swam 500 meters just to clear my mind. It worked and I was fairly productive for the rest of the afternoon. Then I ran 5.61 miles up to Castle Island (with a short pit stop at the 1.2 mile mark to visit my Wednesday night VBallers). Since my partner was in Cancun, we didn't play women's doubles tonight. Would have been nice to play, but glad I got some tri-training in.

I was planning on riding my bike this evening, but had some trouble with putting air in the tires. I tried 2 different pumps, so I think it's a valve problem. I think it's about time to take it to the bike shop and maybe invest in some new wheels for it so I can finally get it on the road and not have to worry about getting a flat. Until then, I will have to settle for riding on the stationary bike in the gym.

Less than 18 weeks to go until the Half-Iron man, but only18 days until the Half-Marathon in Chicago with Marre. I plan on running a 10 mile run before next Monday because I'm leaving for Phoenix for VB nationals on Tuesday evening.

A little cross-training and P90X is in store for tomorrow....my favorite! :)

I'm a slacker.

Holy moly. I have been slacking. Not only with the blog writing but with the training too.....I will write more tomorrow after I'm done with my last final!

Finally ran more than 6 miles!!!

Monday (4/26): swam 1200m in about 45 minutes

Tuesday: biked 16.6 miles in 62 minutes

Wednesday: p90x Core Synergistics (my favorite of the p90x workouts!)

Thursday: Recovery day

Friday: Ran 7.4 miles!!!! For the first time ever, I ran more than 6 miles on Friday. I ran the first 1.3 with my dogs so it was a nice little warmup for the remainder of the run. Needless to say, it was great and I felt awesome when I was done!!! Can't wait until I hit 8!!!

Saturday: off day. I SHOULD have swam, but it was 80* and sunny, so I opted to spend some time at the beach with the roomies working on my tan instead


Now for Today's workout:

Walked up to the track

Ran 800m to warm up
20 pushups, 40 bicycles, 20 v-sits
20 walking lunges (front)
15 walking side lunges (each side)
300m jog, 100m sprint

200m jog, 100m sprint
300m jog, 100m sprint

20 inclined Santana pushups (with leg lift)
20 box jumps
20 dips

300m run
100m sprint

30 prisoner squats
20 mountain climbers (front)
20 mountain climbers (side)
20 knees to elbows (standing)

300m jog, 100m sprint
15 burpees.

walked home. :)