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December 11, 2006
Kona
So I watched my tape of Kona last night (and again today while I was cycling) and I am ALL PUMPED UP! It doesn't take much to pump me up, but still. The human interest stories are touching and all and I really am impressed by what some normal, every day, real people are able to accomplish in such a challenging race. But really, I love watching the pros compete and just hammer. Absolutely hammer! It's ridculous! How do those top women run under 3 hours in the marathon in the Hawaiian heat after swimming 2.4 miles and cycling 112? Love it. Just love it!
ANYWAY - today was a pretty standard Monday. I swam with the masters team in the am and did a cycling course on the CompuTrainer in the pm.
AM swim workout:
3800 yds total at Pitt (800 yds warmup, 100 yds cooldown)
8x300 w/the odd repeats all on 5 minutes and the even repeats on 4:45, 4:30, 4:15 and then 4 minutes. I followed all that with 10x50 kick on 1 minute.
It was a good workout. I was able to make the 4 minute last 300 (which is a 1:20 base) which I was pleased with. The pool was absolutely filled to the brim with swimmers this morning, 3 and 4 people in each of the many, many lanes there are (the Pitt swimmers were there too) and so I felt like I was swimming in open water! I swear there were waves!
Work was work. Lots of sick people. I definitely feel like I've typed that same line before in this blog.
After work I headed to the shop to do the next CompuTrainer ride in the series of rides that we are all doing. This one was very rolling, lots of shifting of the gears. It was a 27 km course and the whole idea was to keep your HR in zone 2. Problem was, on the CompuTrainer you have the ability to "race" other people and so today I raced my coach (who did the same course yesterday). And the competitiveness in me just would not allow myself to lose. Of course he did it the right way and stayed in HR zone 2. I beat him yes, but my average HR was in my zone 4. Oops! No more racing other people if my goal is really to stay in the right HR zone. Seriously people - I have to get my kicks somehow! :) Regardless, I was on the bike for a total of 1:45 including warmup and cooldown.
And that was that. Now somehow it's already 9 pm! AH! The good news is, my foot has been feeling on the up and up so I'm going to attempt a run tomorrow morning. I just want to see where I'm at. I haven't run for 9 days now, have been icing religiously, have been taking my anti-inflammatories, etc... Hopefully all will be well!
Have a great night everyone!
Posted by beth at December 11, 2006 8:54 PM
Comments
go foot!... be gentle :)
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at December 12, 2006 3:35 PM