I'm on track for another lifetime high mileage week. I'm at about 50 right now, and planning to add about 7 tomorrow.
And unbelievably, I'm feeling great.
I'm stiff when I first get out of bed. I'm "sfinita" (Italian for dead tired, new vocab word for me!). My left hammie is tight, tight, tight like a rubber band. But otherwise, it's all good. And all of that stuff is completely bearable.
I was at camp this morning and I felt less fatigued than usual on some of the exercises. I wasn't a complete rock star or anything, but it wasn't too bad. I felt like my shoulders especially were pretty strong when I was doing shoulder presses and stuff like that.
It's good. And there are only a few more weeks to go. If I can get through March, April will be a piece of cake -- taper, race, vacation!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The Heartbreak Continues
Especially with the chaos of my life this week, it seems like I'm coming to terms with my "safety" guy marrying someone else. I don't even think about it that often. But then I get on FB and see that they have set up a wedding website and again, it's like they're throwing this in my face. And sadly, since I just signed the policy about using company computer's for personal use (don't), I won't have time to stalk the website until this weekend.
http://www.officialroyalwedding2011.org/
Aye...
Ran 10 this morning, not quite as planned. Needed 3 easy (heart rate zone 1), 2 hard (zone 3), 1 easy (zone 1), 2 hard (zone 3), 2 easy (zone 1). Ended up with 3 easy (good!), 2 harder but not hard enough (both zone 2, not zone 3), 1 easy (good), 1 zone 2 and 1 zone 3 (finally), then 2 easy but still heart rate was a bit too high.
http://www.officialroyalwedding2011.org/
Aye...
Ran 10 this morning, not quite as planned. Needed 3 easy (heart rate zone 1), 2 hard (zone 3), 1 easy (zone 1), 2 hard (zone 3), 2 easy (zone 1). Ended up with 3 easy (good!), 2 harder but not hard enough (both zone 2, not zone 3), 1 easy (good), 1 zone 2 and 1 zone 3 (finally), then 2 easy but still heart rate was a bit too high.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Balance Sought
I could have guessed that this week was going to be crazy just from looking at my calendar many weeks ago, but adding the job stuff on top of it means that I feel like I'm dragging. Ugh!
Work is awesome, which is nice, but I'm still dealing with tons of IT issues (like I don't have the requisite level of permission/authority to use the main system I'll need to use!). But it's the non-work stuff that's killing me.
Monday night it was a law school alumni happy hour. But because of a lot of trouble shutting off my computer, I was late arriving. And then I had so much fun talking to people that I stayed pretty late. Got home with just beer in my stomach, so I ate cereal and fell asleep.
Last night was dinner with a former travel buddy. Same trouble turning off my work computer (and I literally mean trouble, I hit shut down and it says "logging off" for like 20 minutes until I finally give up and just hold down the power button). Got home and then hubby and I walked to the restaurant to meet our friend. A cool tapas place called Sangria. We met at 7:30, which is already pushing it for me. Hubby and I usually try to go to bed at 8:30 or so. Doesn't happen often, but that's the goal usually. We didn't even get home until about 10, which makes a 5 a.m. wake-up call tough.
I still got up and went to boot camp. Ran a mile or so before camp since I was early. Worked out, came home, eating breakfast now.
Tonight is the social run. Hopefully about 5 miles. Then dinner with some running friends at the cafe afterward. And hubby will probably grocery shop while I run and meet me for dinner.
Tomorrow night is another happy hour, immediately followed by our Italian conversation group.
Fri night is up to us. Then Saturday night wedding, Sunday night running group happy hour/dinner. Then it's next week!
I'm going to need a down week very, very soon. I've got some homebody tendencies, and all these nights with plans are wearing on me.
But all good. High mileage this week. 22 that I did Sunday. 9.6 yesterday. 3 or so this morning. 5 or so tonight. 10 tomorrow. A couple Fri. And something like 8 or so on Saturday. Feeling stiff, tired, but okay!
Work is awesome, which is nice, but I'm still dealing with tons of IT issues (like I don't have the requisite level of permission/authority to use the main system I'll need to use!). But it's the non-work stuff that's killing me.
Monday night it was a law school alumni happy hour. But because of a lot of trouble shutting off my computer, I was late arriving. And then I had so much fun talking to people that I stayed pretty late. Got home with just beer in my stomach, so I ate cereal and fell asleep.
Last night was dinner with a former travel buddy. Same trouble turning off my work computer (and I literally mean trouble, I hit shut down and it says "logging off" for like 20 minutes until I finally give up and just hold down the power button). Got home and then hubby and I walked to the restaurant to meet our friend. A cool tapas place called Sangria. We met at 7:30, which is already pushing it for me. Hubby and I usually try to go to bed at 8:30 or so. Doesn't happen often, but that's the goal usually. We didn't even get home until about 10, which makes a 5 a.m. wake-up call tough.
I still got up and went to boot camp. Ran a mile or so before camp since I was early. Worked out, came home, eating breakfast now.
Tonight is the social run. Hopefully about 5 miles. Then dinner with some running friends at the cafe afterward. And hubby will probably grocery shop while I run and meet me for dinner.
Tomorrow night is another happy hour, immediately followed by our Italian conversation group.
Fri night is up to us. Then Saturday night wedding, Sunday night running group happy hour/dinner. Then it's next week!
I'm going to need a down week very, very soon. I've got some homebody tendencies, and all these nights with plans are wearing on me.
But all good. High mileage this week. 22 that I did Sunday. 9.6 yesterday. 3 or so this morning. 5 or so tonight. 10 tomorrow. A couple Fri. And something like 8 or so on Saturday. Feeling stiff, tired, but okay!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Long days
Yesterday was crazy and I'm going to be dragging today. I decided to get up and go to boot camp yesterday morning since I wasn't too sore, but I really half-@$$ed it. Got home and hurried through my morning routine. And went to work. Lots of paperwork and stuff. Finally got to some substantive stuff at about 6 p.m., when I was planning to leave. Then straight to a law school alumni happy hour where I met up with a friend and met someone new who is at my old firm in my old group and sits on my old floor. Tons of gossiping and getting scoop and sharing stories with him. Got home and hubby was already sound asleep and I promptly conked out after a bowl of cereal. Not a great foundation for today, but we have plans every night this week, it's going to be hectic!
Today we had 9 miles on the schedule and I ended up around 9.7 -- due to doubling back to run away from a dog that I thought was loose and sounded big (those invisible fences trick me) and getting a little lost.
Feeling stiff but excited about going to work! Such a change!!!
Today we had 9 miles on the schedule and I ended up around 9.7 -- due to doubling back to run away from a dog that I thought was loose and sounded big (those invisible fences trick me) and getting a little lost.
Feeling stiff but excited about going to work! Such a change!!!
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