Week 19 - starting Monday 22 January 2007
Scheduled hours 9hr 00 min
Actual hours 9hr 16 min
Recovery week - or so I had assumed and had psychologically prepared myself for! I logged in on Sunday afternoon and found another 3 weeks of 11+ hours. Yikes. “Maaaaaaa..rrrrr…yyyyy??? You don’t mean that do you?”, I asked as my fingers clattered on my keyboard to email her. Log in again she told me. So I did. It turns out that Training Peaks had been playing up a bit and wasn’t updating properly and I was thankful to see the hours drop a bit and have a recovery week after all. Phewwww.
So, all in all an easyish week with runs not more than an hour and only one bike over that. Funny really that I consider running an hour to be an easy length run when 6 months ago I would have thought that was looooong. However, it did take me the first half of the week to recover from the previous Sunday long run. I think adding the extra time, compounded by the low temperature just taxed my body more than I thought it would. Monday my lower legs hurt, Tuesday and Wednesday my upper legs hurt. Not a bad hurt I think, just like the day after a hard weights session. Anyway a few days on and the soreness is forgotten.
I bought my first cycling DVD this week. Rides, session 1, the Rockies. I quite liked it ‘cos I was riding with all the big boys but I have to say I was a bit disappointed by the scenery. You hear all about how the Rockies is “the” best place to train but the bit they used for the dvd just seemed so brown. It makes me appreciate the beauty we have here - both with the snow in the winter and the lush green in the summer.
I was pleased with swimming this week. One of the masters sets had some 4x50’s IM order x3. I made the Butterfly! 50m is the furthest I have done fly and I had only done it once or twice on separate occasions and spent the rest of the session recovering. But I did 50m fly, 3 times. Yeh me! I WILL be able to do 100m fly by the end of 2007. I will I will I will. Then I will feel more like a real swimmer who casually puts sets of 100m fly in their logs.
I did my long run (only an hour) on Saturday afternoon this week instead of Sunday morning. I ran along the canal path where the snow was trampled but still pretty bumpy in places so it wasn’t easy going. The HR monitor on my Garmin is much more reliable/ sensitive than my old one and I was able to stay at practically the same HR (zone 2) the whole time.
The other run (of an hour) this week I ran/shuffled the trails in Mendon Ponds Park. It was cold and snowy with most trails not groomed and it was such fun! I took the dog and we just had a blast. The steeper hills were 2 steps up and slide 1 back down and the downhills were…..fast! And it was so pretty - I love the snow.
I made an effort with my nutrition this week. Weekdays were very good but I am not so good at weekends. It’s that darn Wegmans multigrain loaf with currants this week - can anyone resist eating the whole baguette in one sitting? Baby steps though, baby steps. That is something I think I can aim at for a few weeks - to really make an effort during the week and relax a bit on weekends.
The week ended with our monthly Ironman meeting on Sunday morning. One of the things on the agenda was a map and explanation of the Lake Placid transition area. As Mary was explaining it, I got goose bumps and butterflies in my tummy. It just made it all so close and so real.
For the next couple of weeks I have been warned that my schedule will look strange with long bike one week and long run the following week. Can’t wait - variety is the spice of life, if not the way to survive a Rochester winter!
25 WEEKS TO GO
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Jackie D - Week 18
Week 18 - starting Monday 15 January 2007
Scheduled hours 11hr 00 min
Actual hours 12hr 02 min
Third build week this week - again mostly the same as last week except for bike upped another 15mins (to 2:00) and run another 10mins (to 1:50).
Actual hours more than scheduled simply due to a longer masters swim and a longer gym session……oh and the long run but we’ll get to that later!
This week started off with children no school on Monday and then one of them home from school sick on Tuesday which pretty much tied me to the house. So I had to do some shuffling and swapping around of my schedule for the first half of the week and just did some indoor bike trainer stuff for those days. I am getting more confident that if I have to swap things around it isn’t the end of the world and I will still be able to complete this Ironman.
Some snow arrived towards the weekend and it just makes it SO pretty - doggy and I made the most of it along the canal towpath for some running.
I managed to get all my workouts in, and in a sensible manner!!! …and then we arrived at Sunday for the long run. Or, actually Saturday night when I looked at the weather forecast: 8 degrees F. Right so no-one runs at 7am in those temperatures do they? I sat by my computer expectantly waiting for some kind of email saying that we should abandon or even someone just to comment - but alas no! So, I set my alarm and went out as usual…and I couldn’t believe the number of people that turned up for this ridiculously cold run! In fact during the run I saw loads of people turning up to ski or snowshoe - winter is here!
Anyway, it was 7F according to my car thermometer - that is minus 14 Celsius in my European numbers - that is tuck yourself up with hot chocolate and a roaring fire temperatures. Still, I had dressed for it (thank you for all the layers of Christmas present clothing that I wore that morning!) and actually I wasn’t cold at all. Despite the fact that my Gatorade went slushy. Despite the fact that the air in my nostrils (OK the moisture in the air) was freezing as I inhaled. Despite the fact that frost formed on my eyelashes which felt really weird. In fact by the end I was looking very frosty altogether as the escaping sweat froze on my clothes.
Anyway I ran the first part of the loop with another Train-this athlete and then he forked off to finish his run (shorter time) and I was left on my own. The routes are basically 9.5miles and 13.1miles. Mary had Ok’d to do the longer route as she said adding extra time on this length of time was fine. So off I trundled on my own. Funny how even though I still think it is the same effort, when I am on my own my pace does slow down (now I have the technology to see!). My trail shoes started to annoy me. I think they were too loose but I hate having tight trainers on and the tops kept banging into the top of my foot. If someone had driven past after I had done my allotted 1hr 50mins and offered me a lift (OK so theoretically only someone I knew) then I would have accepted. But they didn’t and with hindsight I am glad they didn’t because now I can say that I HAVE COMPLETED A HALF MARATHON DISTANCE! It felt hard enough that I am completely gobsmacked that I will be doing DOUBLE that distance in 6 months time (yikes 6 months!) after a swim and a bike. It took me 2 hours, 6 minutes and 32 seconds and I was never so glad to see my car. That night I went to bed at 8pm and slept right through til 7am!
I haven’t really got my general nutrition under control. Oh I know how to eat healthily and I do eat healthily…..and then I eat some more - chocolate and anything sweet is my downfall. I think the only thing (apart from all this exercise) that is keeping me from being obese is the fact that I hate Hershey chocolate and so have to seek out the European kind. This week it was McVities Chocolate Hobnobs - I bought a packet and ate the whole lot in one sitting and they were yummy! I know to keep this kind of stuff out of the house but I had a weak moment and then they were home! Every day there is something! I must try and get this under control sometime soon.
26 WEEKS TO GO
Scheduled hours 11hr 00 min
Actual hours 12hr 02 min
Third build week this week - again mostly the same as last week except for bike upped another 15mins (to 2:00) and run another 10mins (to 1:50).
Actual hours more than scheduled simply due to a longer masters swim and a longer gym session……oh and the long run but we’ll get to that later!
This week started off with children no school on Monday and then one of them home from school sick on Tuesday which pretty much tied me to the house. So I had to do some shuffling and swapping around of my schedule for the first half of the week and just did some indoor bike trainer stuff for those days. I am getting more confident that if I have to swap things around it isn’t the end of the world and I will still be able to complete this Ironman.
Some snow arrived towards the weekend and it just makes it SO pretty - doggy and I made the most of it along the canal towpath for some running.
I managed to get all my workouts in, and in a sensible manner!!! …and then we arrived at Sunday for the long run. Or, actually Saturday night when I looked at the weather forecast: 8 degrees F. Right so no-one runs at 7am in those temperatures do they? I sat by my computer expectantly waiting for some kind of email saying that we should abandon or even someone just to comment - but alas no! So, I set my alarm and went out as usual…and I couldn’t believe the number of people that turned up for this ridiculously cold run! In fact during the run I saw loads of people turning up to ski or snowshoe - winter is here!
Anyway, it was 7F according to my car thermometer - that is minus 14 Celsius in my European numbers - that is tuck yourself up with hot chocolate and a roaring fire temperatures. Still, I had dressed for it (thank you for all the layers of Christmas present clothing that I wore that morning!) and actually I wasn’t cold at all. Despite the fact that my Gatorade went slushy. Despite the fact that the air in my nostrils (OK the moisture in the air) was freezing as I inhaled. Despite the fact that frost formed on my eyelashes which felt really weird. In fact by the end I was looking very frosty altogether as the escaping sweat froze on my clothes.
Anyway I ran the first part of the loop with another Train-this athlete and then he forked off to finish his run (shorter time) and I was left on my own. The routes are basically 9.5miles and 13.1miles. Mary had Ok’d to do the longer route as she said adding extra time on this length of time was fine. So off I trundled on my own. Funny how even though I still think it is the same effort, when I am on my own my pace does slow down (now I have the technology to see!). My trail shoes started to annoy me. I think they were too loose but I hate having tight trainers on and the tops kept banging into the top of my foot. If someone had driven past after I had done my allotted 1hr 50mins and offered me a lift (OK so theoretically only someone I knew) then I would have accepted. But they didn’t and with hindsight I am glad they didn’t because now I can say that I HAVE COMPLETED A HALF MARATHON DISTANCE! It felt hard enough that I am completely gobsmacked that I will be doing DOUBLE that distance in 6 months time (yikes 6 months!) after a swim and a bike. It took me 2 hours, 6 minutes and 32 seconds and I was never so glad to see my car. That night I went to bed at 8pm and slept right through til 7am!
I haven’t really got my general nutrition under control. Oh I know how to eat healthily and I do eat healthily…..and then I eat some more - chocolate and anything sweet is my downfall. I think the only thing (apart from all this exercise) that is keeping me from being obese is the fact that I hate Hershey chocolate and so have to seek out the European kind. This week it was McVities Chocolate Hobnobs - I bought a packet and ate the whole lot in one sitting and they were yummy! I know to keep this kind of stuff out of the house but I had a weak moment and then they were home! Every day there is something! I must try and get this under control sometime soon.
26 WEEKS TO GO
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Marian, January 21st, 2007
After one week back after been sick I feel good, really good. Biked for 2 hours today with Kitima, Dana, and Tina while watching a spinervals tape. The 2 hours went by really fast. it was a lot harder than what I thought it would be. The DVD pushes you more than what I would have done on my own riding at home in front of the TV.
I tried running yesterday but when I looked at my deck thermometer and saw that it read zero degrees I packed up and headed for the gym. Running on a treadmill is sooo boring I even watched 2 whole episodes of "My Super Sweet Sixteen" on the big TV ahead of me. What a dumb show that is. Anyway, I found myself doing something I know I really shouldn't do and the reason I usually choose a treadmill taht's of to the corner with no one around. I start looking at people's speed and time and try to out-run them. i know it's stupid and immature. Can't wait too run outside again...
I tried running yesterday but when I looked at my deck thermometer and saw that it read zero degrees I packed up and headed for the gym. Running on a treadmill is sooo boring I even watched 2 whole episodes of "My Super Sweet Sixteen" on the big TV ahead of me. What a dumb show that is. Anyway, I found myself doing something I know I really shouldn't do and the reason I usually choose a treadmill taht's of to the corner with no one around. I start looking at people's speed and time and try to out-run them. i know it's stupid and immature. Can't wait too run outside again...
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Marian, Sunday, January 14th, 2007
After 13 days of not doing anything, I biked yesterday for 30 minutes on the trainer and I ran today. I stayed on a pretty flat road. It was hailing a little bit but it actually felt kind of nice. The hail was very small and it would just bounce of so it didn't hurt and I didn't even get wet. AFter about 10 minutes running I staretd to get a little winded. I had gone out too fast and had to slow down. It's amazing how a short 30 minute run on a flat can feel like such an acomplishment after having beign sick for almost a month. Right before I left for my run I took the last of the antibiotics and set out.
I really wish I can running with the group again. Training in with a team is a lot more fun and more of a challenge. In a couple of weeks we will be biking together also. Can't wait.
I really wish I can running with the group again. Training in with a team is a lot more fun and more of a challenge. In a couple of weeks we will be biking together also. Can't wait.
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
After 13 days of not doing anything, I biked yesterday for 30 minutes on the trainer and I ran today. I stayed on a pretty flat road. It was hailing a little bit but it actually felt kind of nice. The hail was very small and it would just bounce of so it didn't hurt and I didn't even get wet. AFter about 10 minutes running I staretd to get a little winded. I had gone out too fast and had to slow down. It's amazing how a short 30 minute run on a flat can feel like such an acomplishment after having beign sick for almost a month. Right before I left for my run I took the last of the antibiotics and set out.
I really wish I can running with the group again. Training in with a team is a lot more fun and more of a challenge. In a couple of weeks we will be biking together also. Can't wait.
I really wish I can running with the group again. Training in with a team is a lot more fun and more of a challenge. In a couple of weeks we will be biking together also. Can't wait.
Jackie D - Week 17
Week 17 - starting Monday 8 January 2007
Another enjoyable week, much like last week in terms of training time except long bike went up to 1hr 45min and long run 1hr 40min
Thought it might be of interest to start putting total hours down now. I know they are going to creep up from here and it will be interesting to look back to these times:
Scheduled hours 10hr 35 min
Actual hours 11hr 35 min
Oh dear that sounds like I have been naughty and done too much but it really wasn’t like that - honest! My two swims are scheduled for an hour each but I made masters both times this week and their schedule takes me just over an hour and a quarter. The other “discrepancy” is the fact that I did my full gym routine for one of the strength sessions this week which took an hour rather than 40mins.
Talking of strength, I upped the weights this week, even with doing the 3 sets of repetitions. I am getting stronger!
I did all my cycling inside this week. For my Friday long bike (1hr 45) I could have gone outside. It was grey and dreary but certainly rideable, but, I decided that making myself ride inside would also be making myself work on some mental stuff. Oh the preparation! It was just as bad as packing for a vacation. Chairs either side of trainer to hold everything - tv controls, dvd controls, internet radio speaker, extra water, choice of food, a couple of magazines, training schedule, papers with HR zones, kitchen sink….all this on top of the usual stuff that goes on the bike - HRM, stop watch, Gatorade. Anyway in the end I didn’t even turn the TV on!!!!! The first hour (after 10min warm up) was nicely taken up with doing 5 sets of the drills that Mary had set me, which I started every 10mins and took total 7 and a half to complete. Then for the rest I kept in z2 except for last 5mins when I let my HR drop to z1. And I kept my brain occupied by listening to UK Radio 4 on the internet. Womens hour and science program (OK had to jump off bike and sprint to computer to change program at one point!). I will definitely try this again because listening to talky stuff seemed to make the time go by faster.
The same day as the above cycle I also did a 40min strength session in the gym and that evening has been the most tired I have been to date. I went to bed at the same time as the kids at 8.30pm! After just walking upstairs to tuck them in I had to sit down as my legs felt so tired.
Anyway, the next day was rest day so perfectly timed and then the last day of the week which is the group long run in the rolling terrain of Mendon Ponds Park. Still dark when we start at 7am and I think this was the first time that the temperature was below freezing. The run itself was fine until about three quarters of the way through when it started sleeting and this made the road a bit slippery. Needless to say my pace dropped a bit. My Garmin worked properly for the whole run so I am convinced the problem last week was because I had the “signal picker up thingy” pointing downwards. I didn’t feel cold at all but at the end I looked down and found myself covered in ice!
Onwards we go!
27 WEEKS TO GO
Another enjoyable week, much like last week in terms of training time except long bike went up to 1hr 45min and long run 1hr 40min
Thought it might be of interest to start putting total hours down now. I know they are going to creep up from here and it will be interesting to look back to these times:
Scheduled hours 10hr 35 min
Actual hours 11hr 35 min
Oh dear that sounds like I have been naughty and done too much but it really wasn’t like that - honest! My two swims are scheduled for an hour each but I made masters both times this week and their schedule takes me just over an hour and a quarter. The other “discrepancy” is the fact that I did my full gym routine for one of the strength sessions this week which took an hour rather than 40mins.
Talking of strength, I upped the weights this week, even with doing the 3 sets of repetitions. I am getting stronger!
I did all my cycling inside this week. For my Friday long bike (1hr 45) I could have gone outside. It was grey and dreary but certainly rideable, but, I decided that making myself ride inside would also be making myself work on some mental stuff. Oh the preparation! It was just as bad as packing for a vacation. Chairs either side of trainer to hold everything - tv controls, dvd controls, internet radio speaker, extra water, choice of food, a couple of magazines, training schedule, papers with HR zones, kitchen sink….all this on top of the usual stuff that goes on the bike - HRM, stop watch, Gatorade. Anyway in the end I didn’t even turn the TV on!!!!! The first hour (after 10min warm up) was nicely taken up with doing 5 sets of the drills that Mary had set me, which I started every 10mins and took total 7 and a half to complete. Then for the rest I kept in z2 except for last 5mins when I let my HR drop to z1. And I kept my brain occupied by listening to UK Radio 4 on the internet. Womens hour and science program (OK had to jump off bike and sprint to computer to change program at one point!). I will definitely try this again because listening to talky stuff seemed to make the time go by faster.
The same day as the above cycle I also did a 40min strength session in the gym and that evening has been the most tired I have been to date. I went to bed at the same time as the kids at 8.30pm! After just walking upstairs to tuck them in I had to sit down as my legs felt so tired.
Anyway, the next day was rest day so perfectly timed and then the last day of the week which is the group long run in the rolling terrain of Mendon Ponds Park. Still dark when we start at 7am and I think this was the first time that the temperature was below freezing. The run itself was fine until about three quarters of the way through when it started sleeting and this made the road a bit slippery. Needless to say my pace dropped a bit. My Garmin worked properly for the whole run so I am convinced the problem last week was because I had the “signal picker up thingy” pointing downwards. I didn’t feel cold at all but at the end I looked down and found myself covered in ice!
Onwards we go!
27 WEEKS TO GO
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Jackie D - Week 16
Week 16 - starting Monday 1 January 2007
Yeh! Back in proper training. Another beautiful, unseasonably warm week here which means no snow. Boo hoo. I love the snow and I love walking in the snow, especially at night when it lights up the surroundings.
I rode my bike outside again this week. I swapped my long bike from Friday to Wednesday (bike drills went to Friday with a shorter bike) when I saw the blue skies and sunshine. I rode from home around the Pittsford tri route and it was glorious, albeit a little windy - seems to be always windy on this route. It was only one and a half hours but goes up little by little from here.
I also did a new set of bike drills this week. I read the first line and it said 10 sec high rpm - that’s OK I thought. Then it said 10 sec higher rpm. OK I thought. Then it said 10 sec max rpm. OK. Well I have learnt that drills can be as beneficial as you make them yourself. Wholeheartedly I launched into them and was bouncing around on the last 10 secs each time. Funny how time warps - the first 10 seconds went very quickly but the last 10 seconds stretched out for nearly forever.
Swimming was good this week, if a little disorganised on my half. I hadn’t noted the reduced open swim hours and turned up to one of my sessions with an hour til closing time but knowing the workout would take about 90minutes. Still, my training schedule only actually called for 60minutes so I just got in and swam as far through it as possible. AND I am feeling very pleased with myself as it had 2 x200m IM in it and I did the butterfly BOTH times. It certainly wasn’t pretty at the end of each 50m fly and the lifeguard was probably preparing to jump in and rescue me but I did it! Yippee. I am getting stronger.
My other session was a masters session but I didn’t have anyone to swim the schedule I do with - hopefully now the holidays are over people will turn up more regularly.
I had a new set of strength stuff to do this week x2. Functional strength. I have heard a lot about it and I know Mary is very keen so I got my hubby’s weights back from a friend who was borrowing them, found a band, read it all up on the internet and went it with the right attitude I like to think. However, 10 minutes in I knew I was hating it and would resent it. The main problem is I just don’t like doing strength work at home. I like the gym and the controlled environment of the machines. With the functional stuff I had no idea if I was doing it right or not and I just wasn’t enjoying it like I do the gym. So, after talking to coach she agreed I could do my gym routine for now. I hopped over to the gym that day and doing 2 sets rather than 3 of my original gym routine fitted the 40min allotted time perfectly. Much happier bunny now! I haven’t done much strength stuff regularly so just a general all over body workout like my gym routine is sure to be good for me.
And finally to running. The long run of the week was with the group back in Mendon Ponds Park. I had to go to a managers works do of my hubby’s on Saturday night and I knew it would be a late night so was pretty concerned whether I could get up on the Sunday morning. However, I didn’t drink much and just hoped I could get to bed as soon as I could. Strange how this training makes me prefer early nights and minimal alcohol instead of late night partying - that or I am showing my age!
Anyway I set the alarm and made it down there for a 9.5+ (just) miles in a lovely setting. I am finally experimenting with my new Garmin this week and it lost the satellite at 7miles and didn’t recover it. Got to look that one up. Think it was partly my fault as I wore the monitor on the inside of my wrist so the thingy that picks up signal (technical girl aren’t I?) was pointing downwards.
This week ended with a swim clinic done by coach and 2 other great swimmers from the Train-This team! I was very excited to have someone watch my stroke from under the water and it was SO USEFUL. Apparently I was pulling with too straight an arm after the initial catch so not getting maximum pull of the water through my body. Concentrated on this and was told it was much improved. Here I come speedier swim times…
28 WEEKS TO GO
Yeh! Back in proper training. Another beautiful, unseasonably warm week here which means no snow. Boo hoo. I love the snow and I love walking in the snow, especially at night when it lights up the surroundings.
I rode my bike outside again this week. I swapped my long bike from Friday to Wednesday (bike drills went to Friday with a shorter bike) when I saw the blue skies and sunshine. I rode from home around the Pittsford tri route and it was glorious, albeit a little windy - seems to be always windy on this route. It was only one and a half hours but goes up little by little from here.
I also did a new set of bike drills this week. I read the first line and it said 10 sec high rpm - that’s OK I thought. Then it said 10 sec higher rpm. OK I thought. Then it said 10 sec max rpm. OK. Well I have learnt that drills can be as beneficial as you make them yourself. Wholeheartedly I launched into them and was bouncing around on the last 10 secs each time. Funny how time warps - the first 10 seconds went very quickly but the last 10 seconds stretched out for nearly forever.
Swimming was good this week, if a little disorganised on my half. I hadn’t noted the reduced open swim hours and turned up to one of my sessions with an hour til closing time but knowing the workout would take about 90minutes. Still, my training schedule only actually called for 60minutes so I just got in and swam as far through it as possible. AND I am feeling very pleased with myself as it had 2 x200m IM in it and I did the butterfly BOTH times. It certainly wasn’t pretty at the end of each 50m fly and the lifeguard was probably preparing to jump in and rescue me but I did it! Yippee. I am getting stronger.
My other session was a masters session but I didn’t have anyone to swim the schedule I do with - hopefully now the holidays are over people will turn up more regularly.
I had a new set of strength stuff to do this week x2. Functional strength. I have heard a lot about it and I know Mary is very keen so I got my hubby’s weights back from a friend who was borrowing them, found a band, read it all up on the internet and went it with the right attitude I like to think. However, 10 minutes in I knew I was hating it and would resent it. The main problem is I just don’t like doing strength work at home. I like the gym and the controlled environment of the machines. With the functional stuff I had no idea if I was doing it right or not and I just wasn’t enjoying it like I do the gym. So, after talking to coach she agreed I could do my gym routine for now. I hopped over to the gym that day and doing 2 sets rather than 3 of my original gym routine fitted the 40min allotted time perfectly. Much happier bunny now! I haven’t done much strength stuff regularly so just a general all over body workout like my gym routine is sure to be good for me.
And finally to running. The long run of the week was with the group back in Mendon Ponds Park. I had to go to a managers works do of my hubby’s on Saturday night and I knew it would be a late night so was pretty concerned whether I could get up on the Sunday morning. However, I didn’t drink much and just hoped I could get to bed as soon as I could. Strange how this training makes me prefer early nights and minimal alcohol instead of late night partying - that or I am showing my age!
Anyway I set the alarm and made it down there for a 9.5+ (just) miles in a lovely setting. I am finally experimenting with my new Garmin this week and it lost the satellite at 7miles and didn’t recover it. Got to look that one up. Think it was partly my fault as I wore the monitor on the inside of my wrist so the thingy that picks up signal (technical girl aren’t I?) was pointing downwards.
This week ended with a swim clinic done by coach and 2 other great swimmers from the Train-This team! I was very excited to have someone watch my stroke from under the water and it was SO USEFUL. Apparently I was pulling with too straight an arm after the initial catch so not getting maximum pull of the water through my body. Concentrated on this and was told it was much improved. Here I come speedier swim times…
28 WEEKS TO GO
Monday, January 1, 2007
Jackie D - Week 15
Week 15 - starting Monday 25 December 2006
Well what a week! Thank goodness it was a recovery week and thank goodness Christmas Day was a day off. Having felt fine for the Christmas Eve morning run, by 7pm that evening I was throwing my guts up. This lasted all through the night and I felt so ill all Christmas Day that I just couldn’t get out of bed even to open a pressie or watch the kids play. I am pretty sure that I had this gastro-intestinal bug that they mentioned on the news. I haven’t thrown up for years and I don’t like it, I can tell you that!
Anyway after a good nights sleep on the 25th I finally got up around 11am on the Tuesday. Weak, feeble, shaky and nowhere near 100% is how I would best describe it. Decided it would be pretty stupid to do my 30 min run and 30 min bike that day, short though they were. I took the dog out for a short walk to test how I was feeling but I only made it about 20mins in total and that was me done for!
On Wednesday we were heading up to Niagara Falls for a few days at the indoor waterpark up there so I was very relieved to be feeling much better. I went out for a very easy, slow run of 30mins before we left and I struggled on the way back so I know I couldn’t have gone further or faster.
My week had been planned for me being away, so the rest of the week was dotted with some short runs of various types and I managed to do these whilst on the trip. Got home in time to do the Sunday morning group run along the canal - only an hour for me this week.
All in all, because it was such a light week I only actually ended up missing a 30min bike. Not bad considering. I also learnt to listen to my body and that I am able to say no and not push myself if it doesn’t feel right. Timing was actually very good for a recovery week.
Of course the positive side of being ill is that I didn’t gorge myself with all the Christmas “unhealthy” foods - well not until the weekend anyway when I seem to have made up for my few pounds weight loss and added some!
29 WEEKS TO GO
Well what a week! Thank goodness it was a recovery week and thank goodness Christmas Day was a day off. Having felt fine for the Christmas Eve morning run, by 7pm that evening I was throwing my guts up. This lasted all through the night and I felt so ill all Christmas Day that I just couldn’t get out of bed even to open a pressie or watch the kids play. I am pretty sure that I had this gastro-intestinal bug that they mentioned on the news. I haven’t thrown up for years and I don’t like it, I can tell you that!
Anyway after a good nights sleep on the 25th I finally got up around 11am on the Tuesday. Weak, feeble, shaky and nowhere near 100% is how I would best describe it. Decided it would be pretty stupid to do my 30 min run and 30 min bike that day, short though they were. I took the dog out for a short walk to test how I was feeling but I only made it about 20mins in total and that was me done for!
On Wednesday we were heading up to Niagara Falls for a few days at the indoor waterpark up there so I was very relieved to be feeling much better. I went out for a very easy, slow run of 30mins before we left and I struggled on the way back so I know I couldn’t have gone further or faster.
My week had been planned for me being away, so the rest of the week was dotted with some short runs of various types and I managed to do these whilst on the trip. Got home in time to do the Sunday morning group run along the canal - only an hour for me this week.
All in all, because it was such a light week I only actually ended up missing a 30min bike. Not bad considering. I also learnt to listen to my body and that I am able to say no and not push myself if it doesn’t feel right. Timing was actually very good for a recovery week.
Of course the positive side of being ill is that I didn’t gorge myself with all the Christmas “unhealthy” foods - well not until the weekend anyway when I seem to have made up for my few pounds weight loss and added some!
29 WEEKS TO GO
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