monday run

between teaching crossfit, mowing the lawn, edging the lawn and packed stuff to get ready to move friday i got a run in yesterday. it was hot and humid and my legs were certainly tired from this weekend. it was a good mental battle to keep running instead of stopping and hiding in the shade of a tree. man was it hot.

5 miles
7:30-7:40 pace
1000 degrees
200% humidity

weekend wrap up

man this weekend was crazy for me. here is a brief outline of it.

went to austin friday planning to do a 75 mile ride saturday. woke up sat morning at 4 am to intense thunder storms. hoped the would pass so i went back to sleep and woke up when my alarm went off at 6. looked outside, still rainy and no sign of letting up. checked 4 different weather reports. most said some sort of rain. only 1 said no rain. the other three ranged from rain all day to only in the evening and only in the morning. went back to sleep. at 730 woke up, still raining, so i decided to scrap the ride. i ended up going to the gym with my dad, here is what i did.

1.5 hour spin bike ride, 1 hour of it was a spin class, then rowed 1k, then swam for 20 min.

When i left the gym it was cloudy still. as soon as i got home and showered it was sunny. i thought, hm the weather must be right, it will rain later today since thats what it called for. turns out it was hot as hell, sunny as anything and didn't rain a drop after 10 am. so once i was done with everything I had planned for the day I went out and did another bike ride on some hills.

30 mile bike. don't know stats, not worried about it, it was hot and my legs were exhausted from the start.


Sunday I went down to barton springs to try my wetsuit. I was supposed to get to sleep in sunday and rest but since saturday was so messed up that didn't happen. I got a new wetsuit for couer d'alene since right now the water temp is 49 and it should be around 60 on race day.the wetsuit was great. it was very warm but i could tell it will tax my shoulders more than i thought. even though the rubber is very flexible and is designed well it still restricts movement. other than that it good. i swam roughly 800m trying out the suit. 68 degree water.

Am wod

lauren wanted me to workout with the 6am class this morning so i did with the last group

"christine"
500m row
12 deadlifts at bodyweight(155#)
21 box jumps (24 inch box)

10:07, my previous pr was 10:55

Am

rowed this morning, felt good to be alone at the box and just row.

10x 250m row.
held 1:40/500m pace.
each between :50 and :53 seconds.
damper at 4.

then for fun:
3 rounds
10 ring dips
10 pull-ups
10 toe to bar
unbroken sets.

wed ride

i was on a tight schedule yesterday so i had to go hard on the ride. it was really windy, it seemed like in every direction too. cycling is terrible in the wind for me. mainly its a psychological thing, get defeated and let everything else get to me. hopefully idaho won't be windy on june 27.

15 miles
dont know speed because garmin died.
time was about 50 minutes.
wind 15-20mph, sustained.

yo

hey this thing still exists? neat.


just kidding, back to work.

today did a 4 miles run,the first workout since my 65 mile bike sunday and man could i feel it. it was brutally hot, and i ate way too close to the run so i was hypoglycemic the whole time. that means i felt like crap, had no energy, and my mind was going crazy due to the low blood sugar(hypoglycemia). all in all bad run, but take the bad with the good, it makes it that much better on a good day. over and out.

4 miles
90+degrees
pace below 8min the whole time, probably around 7:40, don't know exact because my garmin is in another room.

off to crossfit for the afternoon/evening.