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August 25, 2006
Covering My Bases - Again
Today I swam, biked and ran. I'm starting to feel like a broken record.
I started things off this morning at my YMCA for a little pool workout. It was one of those mornings where your alarm goes off, you wake up, and you have no idea where you are or what you are supposed to be doing. Um yeah. I was hurtin' a little. But after blasting the music in the car on the way over to the YMCA I was a little more awake. Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.
3500 yds total (800 yds warmup, 300 yds cooldown)
4x200 on 3:45
2x400 on 7:15
~1:30-2 min rest
800 hard (11:50)
My goal for the 800 hard was 12 minutes flat (1:30/100 yd) so I was pleased with the 11:50. I did this same workout July 10th and did the 800 in 13:09. I was swimming meters then and yards now so the two aren't comparable but even if you try to convert the one to the other, I think the 11:50 is still a superior time. Regardless, the wing was feeling pretty good although my arms were definitely tired.
Next up, work - and lots of it! Lots of patients to see today. But that's good. Kept me busy and kept me out of trouble. :)
When I got home from work I was actually somewhat motivated to get started on my 1:30 brick. Usually I'm not so gung-ho, as in my bed seems much more inviting than my running shoes. But today I was feeling ready to go so go I did. I looked at the mail, changed while O pumped my tires and off I went.
My legs felt like lead at first on the bike but I got in a nice groove and was feeling pretty good after about 5 miles. I don't know when it happened but somewhere along the way I got really comfortable down on my aerobars. I used to get up out of the aero position any time I went down a hill of any size, or down a hill that curved. Now I only seem to get up when I'm going uphill and need to get up out of my seat. I was going 34 MPH downhill in my aerobars and didn't think anything of it! That is NOT how I used to be. Anyway, I'm not complaining. I need all the help I can get on the bike, aerodynamic edge included. :)
I rode for just under 21 miles (20.85 to be exact) in just over 1:05 (1:05:10 to be exact) and then got off my bike, got into my running shoes and took off on a little run with O. He has a 20 miler tomorrow so him and I just sort of jogged along. We ran for 25 minutes.
And that was enough for me. Tomorrow - the team ride. Sunday - off! :) Life is good indeed...
Posted by beth at August 25, 2006 8:50 PM
Comments
all this wing talk... here's a great refrain for you and O ... (my wife says I should have worked in a Radio in one of those music call-in shows...) Imagine it without the "baby" interspersed here and there... it's so damn retro... but the lyrics are quite good...
WAR AND PEACE Spread Your Wings
(Pilson, Hendrix)
Do you need somebody
To please you
To hold you
Could it be anybody
Somewhere
Out there
Do you need somebody
To make life
Worth living
It could rain, anybody
It's time to
Move on
No one can stop you
Oh yeah
Do what you gotta do
Don't look back
Spread your wings and fly away
No one can hold you back now, baby
Follow your heart, it knows the way
So spread your wings and fly now, baby
Fly fly fly
Can love love somebody
For the rest of
Your life
Don't you hurt nobody
Forgive
Forget
It could be anybody
It's never
Forever
It happens to everybody
Good times
Bad times
No one can stop you
Oh yeah
Do what you gotta do
Don't look back
Spread your wings and fly away
No one can hold you back now, baby
Follow your heart, it knows the way
So, Spread your wings and fly now, baby
Spread your wings
and fly fly fly
It's only
Your lonely
Living your life
For someone else
Spread your wings and fly away
No one can hold you back now, baby
Follow your heart, it knows the way
So spread your wings and fly now, baby
Spread your wings and fly away
No one can hold you back now, baby
Follow your heart, it knows the way
Just spread your wings and fly now, baby
Fly..
Spread your wings now
Spread your wings and fly away
(repeat, ad lib)
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at August 26, 2006 4:27 AM