Finding ways to fit it in!
We were on vacation over the weekend and are headed out again for a week this weekend. I decided to combine workouts for biggest impact. I did a fast 1min interval at each .5km mark. Pretty proud of that under 10min mile pace!
Workout:
I was running late so I had to cut it short. I had hoped to get in some strength training today as the day went on, but it never happened. I am so incredibly busy these days, I can eeek out a set of squats or lunges, but anything that requires free hands ’tisn’t going to happen.
Workout:
A slow recovery run.
Workout:
Swim, Bike, Run… another Tri done!
Ran the Udhailiyah Sprint Tri today. SO much fun! It is a cold and windy day here. The wind is no surprise, but the cold is! It was nice, though. We didn’t get too hot.
On our camp, there is a tri training group that meets every Tuesday at 4:15. I don’t have anyone that can watch all three girls at 4:15 so I never get to work out with them. Instead, I take the girls on a bike ride along the track the tri group trains and we cheer them on. Cheesy, but fun.
On camp, we have a biking group that rides 80+Km rides multiple times each week. There is a running group who has brought 8 people to 4 marathons since December. This is also the camp where people say things like “I only run about an 8 minute mile; I’m very slow.”
It’s a skewed population as far as fitness is concerned. And very frustrating because I’m getting a lot of “wow, you’ve lost so much weight!” Ummm…. I had a BABY. I wasn’t fat, I was pregnant.
So today was a bit of vindication. Coming in 2nd (although I would have been 4th if our two fastest had been competing) was pretty good. The woman who won today called me ‘the dark horse.’ It was all in support and kindness, nothing malicious at all. It felt pretty good. She said, “Well look at you, the dark horse! I guess I never considered you to be a contender since you don’t work out with us.”
I thought it was rather funny considering I still ran this one 10 minutes slower than my fastest which would have been 2 minutes faster than the winning time. Here’s to slamming the fall tri.
So here is your (slightly) vain participant feeling a bit vindicated. And funny, I had 5 new people ask me about my PARK workouts today… =)
Now, for the race report:
Not too shabby… from The Dark Horse!
Workout:
I overslept and it’s 3 days before my tri. So I decided on a short, easy run.
Workout:
This run started out rough. I almost cut it short but hit 4km and started feeling really good. So at 4.5km I turned around and re-did the loop! 9km.
Next week, i have the tri so I won’t do a long run. That puts me doing my 10k on the 25th. We leave for vacation the 31st so that’s perfect. I want to be at 10k before we go on vacation and it looks like I’ll make it!
Workout:
I tried to break my ride down into one km segments to keep a better pace. Two minutes off 20km isn’t much, but it’s still an improvement.
I’m going to be the slowest biker on the tri next week. The next slowest woman’s slowest time is 45minutes. Her run is much slower than mine, but her swim is faster. I’m not sure which one of us will be last. This woman and one other are doing the tri together and plan to come in together. I almost want to group-up with them so I won’t have to be last. I just don’t want to be last.
The tri is for our community only which is fun. But most everyone is able to get out and do a lot more than I can. They hold Tri Tuesdays every week and have a masters swim, collaborative bike (no coach, but they all share ideas) and training runs. This is on top of the long rides the group takes in the evenings and on the weekends (80km rides). They have all been going to the various compounds to participate in tri’s…. I am jealous they all get to do these things. And I’m miffed because I know I can perform better than I will.
I try to remind myself I’m not quite 1 year post baby. I have three small children and a husband who has only recently become supportive of my workouts. I’m back to my pre-preg size and quickly re-gaining muscle, slowly re-gaining speed. But it’s hard to know I’ll be last.
Ah well. What does it matter? Not really much. Just pride….
No matter where I place, it will be fun!
Workout:
I was supposed to do intervals Tuesday but didn’t get to so I tried today. It was miserable. I was exhausted, hungry, I couldn’t get anything to work well.
Workout:
It wasn’t fast, but we actually made good time! The kids bike while I walk. We stop at the work-out spots around the 5k course and I let the kids create exercises. We only go 1.5km of the course, but we stop 6 times. It’s not the greatest workout, but it’s fun!
Workout:
I swam to practice for the Tri today. I alternated strokes every 50 meters: breast, free, back, free, side, repeat.
It felt pretty good. I’d love to work with a coach to help me because I can’t breathe. Ah, the curse of a former sprinter. You don’t have to learn to breathe when you only swim 100m.
I tried to really focus on my arms because after I get out of the water, my legs still have a long way to go!
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