Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Tuesday 3/12- 2,000yd swim
It's a cut back week so today I have swimming and yoga.
Yoga is not happening because I have late afternoon suburban meetings but I had a short swim with a 1,000 yd "time trial". I'm really never sure how fast to go, so inevitably I don't go that fast. I think 20 minutes for an easy/moderate 1,000 is fine. It's March. 180 days left to train...
In other news, I was really confused by all the black stuff in my goggle only to realize that it was last night's mascara that I hadn't washed off my face yet.
Triathlete problems.... ;)
Yoga is not happening because I have late afternoon suburban meetings but I had a short swim with a 1,000 yd "time trial". I'm really never sure how fast to go, so inevitably I don't go that fast. I think 20 minutes for an easy/moderate 1,000 is fine. It's March. 180 days left to train...
In other news, I was really confused by all the black stuff in my goggle only to realize that it was last night's mascara that I hadn't washed off my face yet.
Triathlete problems.... ;)
Joined a gym
Well I broke down & joined a gym this Sunday... Well, I guess it wasn't a "break down", but I was really trying to save that money. It's just become too much of pain to figure out when and we're I'm going to do each workout and where I'll swim if my schedule has a swim day outside of our team practices...
So $180 to join plus $79.95 and I'm now a proud member of Fitness Formula Clubs. Well, that's not even accurate because they have a program going where if you work out 36 times in 90 days, you get your joiners fee back. Um, no brainer. That money is coming back to moi!
Actually, it's a good deal: I can go to any of their seven city gyms, four of which have pools and four of which have free or nearly free parking for up to 2 hours. They have towel service, hair dryers, shampoo, conditioner, razers, shave gel, cotton swabs, balls, hot tubs, steam and saunas, full basketball court, indoor track, tanning, massage, cafe... So at the end of the day, I have to carry much less and I can get more easily get my workouts done!
All this, however, made me think that one of these days I want to add up all the money I'm spending on Ironman (maybe update an excel spreadsheet), because I'm sure it's totally nuts. Anyone who thinks doing this they will "save" money since they're too exhausted to go out is an idiot. (Read: me!)
So $180 to join plus $79.95 and I'm now a proud member of Fitness Formula Clubs. Well, that's not even accurate because they have a program going where if you work out 36 times in 90 days, you get your joiners fee back. Um, no brainer. That money is coming back to moi!
Actually, it's a good deal: I can go to any of their seven city gyms, four of which have pools and four of which have free or nearly free parking for up to 2 hours. They have towel service, hair dryers, shampoo, conditioner, razers, shave gel, cotton swabs, balls, hot tubs, steam and saunas, full basketball court, indoor track, tanning, massage, cafe... So at the end of the day, I have to carry much less and I can get more easily get my workouts done!
All this, however, made me think that one of these days I want to add up all the money I'm spending on Ironman (maybe update an excel spreadsheet), because I'm sure it's totally nuts. Anyone who thinks doing this they will "save" money since they're too exhausted to go out is an idiot. (Read: me!)
Sunday, March 10, 2013
View from my swim Sunday 3/11
I was excited to try a new pool on Sunday... it was at Pine Grove and Addison, so really not too far from home and right off LSD.
I guess I should've asked the size of said pool... it was only 15 meters. To anyone that swims, you understand immediately that this is not an awesome lap pool when your workout has you swimming closet to 4,000 yards. Let's just say I got a lot of flip turn practice!!
I had to swim multiple 1,000 which in a normal pool is about 40 lengths of the pool.... this was considerably more lengths and super boring.
It also did not have any pull buoys, so I held some sort of water dumbbell between my legs that sort of helped them float as I dragged by body through the water.
After this one, I treated myself to 8 minutes in the steam room! Also in hopes that some of the chlorine that now makes up my DNA would seep out of my pores!
The natural light from the skylight was actually really nice and would have been even better had it been a sunny day. I can't complain about that!!
I guess I should've asked the size of said pool... it was only 15 meters. To anyone that swims, you understand immediately that this is not an awesome lap pool when your workout has you swimming closet to 4,000 yards. Let's just say I got a lot of flip turn practice!!I had to swim multiple 1,000 which in a normal pool is about 40 lengths of the pool.... this was considerably more lengths and super boring.
It also did not have any pull buoys, so I held some sort of water dumbbell between my legs that sort of helped them float as I dragged by body through the water.
After this one, I treated myself to 8 minutes in the steam room! Also in hopes that some of the chlorine that now makes up my DNA would seep out of my pores!
The natural light from the skylight was actually really nice and would have been even better had it been a sunny day. I can't complain about that!!
Friday, March 8, 2013
3/7/13 bike ride at TCS
Due to those two hard rides on Sunday and Monday my body is still recovering and therefore tonight I did a modified ride.
After a pretty substantial warm-up, the goal was to say in zone 3 but vary my cadence.
I went from 90 cadence for five minutes down to 50 cadence for five minutes. Then back up to 85 and down to 55- but keeping my heart rate in zone three which meant I had to use my gears to keep going.
Supposedly it gave my heart a break, but still worked my legs. The tough part about it was that the other riders were doing a different ride, and to me, seemingly more fun ride.
In total I was on the bike about an hour and 15 minutes and back home just before 9pm.
After a pretty substantial warm-up, the goal was to say in zone 3 but vary my cadence.
I went from 90 cadence for five minutes down to 50 cadence for five minutes. Then back up to 85 and down to 55- but keeping my heart rate in zone three which meant I had to use my gears to keep going.
Supposedly it gave my heart a break, but still worked my legs. The tough part about it was that the other riders were doing a different ride, and to me, seemingly more fun ride.
In total I was on the bike about an hour and 15 minutes and back home just before 9pm.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Training life pie chart
My coach sent me this pie chart so I have some reference and boundaries as far as training for Ironman goes...
Perhaps I should have looked at this prior to starting this journey?!
She added: "If work or personal or family gets bigger, training has to get smaller. But your body is a pie chart…you are limited in how much life load you can take."
I have a feeling I will be referring to this often!!!
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