Well, here's my one blog for the month... sorry I'm such a slacker.
Not too much has been going on for me. I've thought about it more since my last blogging experience and realized there's no way I'll be able to give up on the Ironman... if nothing else, for my own determination. It'll be a good time and an amazing accomplishment for me so I'll stick it out. Speaking of which, today is the 6 month mark until DDay. Scary... should probably stop skipping those swim workouts.
Taught a good class this morning. I walked in to find out the room didn't have any heat- naturally on a day it was in the single digits outside. Good times. We warmed up quickly though, it was a pretty tough class with a lot of climbs. They just know it's coming these days. A lot of good sports in that class.
Last night I made it to body pump and a 4 mile treadmill run. Nothing too exciting but it was mandatory after skipping my noon swim for a surprise bday party at the local pub. I did fairly well - made it out of there only eating half an order of fries. I'm not a big hamburger person. Took a lot of heat for it though. I'll get back into swimming Thursdays at noon, until I can get outside for open water swims... that would be better cause I could go at any time.
Wednesday I finally made it back to yoga and then out on a lunch ride. It was insanely windy so it was only about 10 miles. I had never experienced extremely strong crosswind riding before. I haven't been so scared in a long long time. The first gust hit me at the top of a hill and almost blew me over (that's actually an understatement). After I got thrown all over the road again I actually stopped and said I was going to go back but luckily the guys wouldn't let me and I stuck it out. Good because I did get a little more used to it, which I will obviously need to do incase it's windy on a race day, but wow...
Tuesday seems like years ago so I have no idea what I did. I'm pretty sure we went out for an awesome ride that was about 21 miles and then I had swim class which was devoted to kicking. I guess I lied... I do remember Tuesday. Pretty sure I don't remember monday though... Bodypump I think. Something else as well...
As for the weekend... not sure. Heard it's supposed to be fairly nice on Saturday so I think I'll take home the bike and see if I can't get some miles in. I ran 7 miles last Saturday so I could also see if I can at least match that. Sunday I have to teach the two AM cycling classes before working my desk shift so nothing too fun on that day.
Next week: dog sitting. Fun fun. He's a great dog though... hyper boxer. I'm assumming I'll be doing lots of runs with him so I don't have to deal with all his energy while trying to relax, but we'll see. I'll keep you posted.
Happy training to all and TGIF! :)
