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May 26, 2006
Back in Action
After some technical difficulties I think my blog is back in action! Thanks Alison and PJM for fixing up the site! (because Lord knows I wouldn't know a thing about blog technicalities!) Either way, I'm not sure this entry will work, but I'll give it a try...
Catching up...
Wednesday: All I did was lift. Nothing notable. Nothing exciting.
Thursday:
1) Before work I headed to Pitt for a swim workout. Thursdays are the days were the pool is set up as 25 yards and we do shorter, really, really, really hard stuff. Yesterday was no exception! The workout was as follows:
8x25 yds on :30
8x50 yds on 1:00
8x75 yds on 1:30
8x100 yds on 2:00
For each set the first 4 were (1) kick, (2) count your strokes (with the goal of getting as few as possible), (3) count your strokes but speed up, and (4) easy. The last 4 in each set were HARD. The rest intervals were nice and long but it was still quite challenging, I think because the distances were getting bigger instead of smaller! Either way, at the end I swam the fastest four 100s of my life - all were in 1:16 or 1:17! I was hurting though! :) With warmup and cooldown I swam 3200 yds total.
2) After I got home from work I took my bike out for a 15 mile spin. I was in a groove, there wasn't too much wind, I was flying and feeling good!
And that brings us to today. I had a running workout planned but just as O and I were getting ready to go it started storming. We waited some until it died down to just a rain and then we were off. We drove to the trail and did the following workout:
12 minute warmup
5/4/3/2/1 hard with 1/2 of the previous interval's time for rest (ie: 2:30, 2, 1:30, 1 min rests)
11 minute cooldown
I felt okay today. It was humid and sticky and I was thirsty so I felt a little sluggish but I've definitely felt worse on runs so I'm not complaining! :)
And so now we're all caught up. I know - you are all very relieved. :) In other news, our new roof is now in place (they finished today), and that makes me very happy! No more roof worries! Also - my birthday is tomorrow! How about that one?! I'll be 27 on May 27th. My co-workers told me at work yesterday that tomorrow is my golden birthday since my age matches up with the date. I asked if I got something special on my golden birthday but nobody seemed to know the answer to that. Humpf! :)
I hope everyone has a great start to their holiday weekends! :)
Posted by beth at May 26, 2006 6:13 PM
Comments
Happy Golden Birthday! I hope you are having a great day! It sounds like your long ride was a good start to a great day!
Posted by: Meghan at May 27, 2006 6:44 PM
Happy Birthday Beth!! I hope you had a great bday.
Hooray for the May birthdays :)
Posted by: barb at May 30, 2006 12:28 PM