Tuesday, March 30, 2010

I was planning to run today, but things never go as I have planned. It was the trifecta of SUCK outside today. I can run in the cold, or the wind, or the rain, but when you put all 3 together I decide to wait until another day. It is supposed to be gorgeous here the next few days I'll get out then for sure.

I swam tonight. I had a great night at the pool. I am fortunate enough to have 2 pools at my disposal to swim in. I am a member at the Y, and I really like the facilities and programs they have there. What I don't like is the rude people in the locker room who bring their kids to the adults only locker room, or who bring their sons who are too old to be in there into the women's locker room.

Tonight, for the first time, I swam at the college. It was like a dream come true. The college just opened this winter a multi-million dollar fitness center. I'm not overly impressed with the workout equipment, but I can use it for free so I won't complain. Tonight was the first time I used the pool though. I had the locker room to myself. Most of the night I had an 8 lane 25 yard lap pool to myself. It was so nice. I think I will be there a lot in the next few months.

My workout was

10x50
10x100
1x50 <-- This should have been 10 instead of 1 but I started having big problems with leg cramps when I got to around the 5th 100. After this 1 my left leg was locked up tight. I decided to call it a night. I was pretty happy with how everything went. I pushed myself but I wasn't tired, my form wasn't falling apart, and I wasn't gasping for breaths at every break. Let's hope all my swims can go this well.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Training

I have 3 triathlons this summer along with 2 half marathons and a full marathon and I feel like for the past month I've just been phoning in my workouts. I haven't done much at all for a week and a half now since I've hurt my knee.

It's time to get serious about training again. So I'm going to start logging my workouts here. Maybe having my workouts public will help me to not skip them.

We'll see how it goes.