Thursday, August 29, 2013

Tri training ain't easy....

I've decided to focus on the run and bike portion of my Tri training this week and have taken 1 spin class-- the first one I haven't actually hated-- and then I also brought my bike to Nashville with me and just finished a ride. It's been fun getting back on the bike and today did 9 miles averaging a 4.55 minute mile, which for the type of bike I have (hybrid) isn't bad. I would like to shave that down to 4:30 but need for my lower core and quads to strengthen up for that to happen. They give you 1.5 hours to finish the bike portion before they pull your ass off the course...but I'm going to shoot for one hour.

I ran....wait for it....2 miles yesterday without stopping. I felt good too...although I didn't enjoy it necessarily. I even sped up on the last 1/4 of mile. I average about 12:15 per mile and am going to try to get that down to 11:45 by race day which would put me around 36 minutes for the 5K. They give you 45....

The hardest part of all of this....no Ipod. The race doesn't allow you to use them so I haven't been training with them--- not sure if that's a good idea or not...cause I'm missing the music. I've taken to talking to myself and making up songs about strengthening my core.

Lastly, I've been doing my running indoors and my biking outdoors. I get so hot/over heated outdoors that I'm really hoping for nice weather for the day of the race.

That's it for now...there's a glass of wine in my future :)

E

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Bike rack owner...

I mentioned yesterday that I signed up for a Triathlon. Oddly enough, I wasn't lying. So a few things that I've done to start preparing for the race that's on 9/29.

1. I took my bike to the shop for a tune-up.
2. I bought a bike rack (more on that later).
3. I bought 10 sessions at the city swim complex...I'll start that next week after my spray tan wears off...
4. I reached out to my friend Kim who just competed and won her division at a full Tri in Nashville..and she shared her training plan with me.

There's an odd type of person who owns a bike rack I've found. Characteristics of the bike rack owner seem to be...

-I'm both outdoorsy but not enough to get the inside of my car dirty with this bike
-I'm adventurous with my riding but am hitching my bike on the damn car to get there
-I like to blog about my back rack and or bike rack's in general




Monday, August 19, 2013

I just signed up for a Triathlon

More on this to come. But I'm nauseous just thinking about it. Oh. And it's in one month. I got this. Right?

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Whoa Nelly.

So....since I've written I've started to recover from #Concussion13, I've help to execute 4 pretty massive events, I spent a week in a RV, hosted 1 bachelorette party (with another one this weekend) but today was my first day back with my personal trainer, Brandy. Let's just say, I cried.

It was hard. Really hard. Things that were challenging but do-able 3 weeks ago made me want to puke...in fact, I got very light-headed and almost puked everywhere. There were however a couple of good signs:

1. I was able to run 3/4 mile with a 11 min per mile pace and not flinch (that was all the time I had for warmup-- but I could have kept going)
2. I didn't actually puke or pass out.
3. I got up at 4:43AM to meet her...as her only availability was at 5:20.
4. I'm ready for to do it again

By the way, Business Planning is the worst fucking thing in the world for a diet. I'm just throwing that out there.