Sun?

This is the weather today:




It's finally sunny and I have a rest day. So I took a nice walk home for lunch instead, even if that's only like 7 blocks.

I was writing this post yesterday and my internet quit, and then, lo and behold, today my half-written entry was in blogger. It saved it!

So this is my post from Sunday:

Yesterday, Steve left for his race around 5:30 (in the morning) and I was so not even waking up for that. I intended to get up around 8 and go to Masters and then lift some.

BUT, when my alarm went off at 8 I was like, ok time to get up, I closed my eyes and woke up at 8:45. Which wasn't totally awful, because it actually stopped raining yesterday and was suppose to clear up more as the day went on. So I took my time and biked (the 5 miles) on the 'speed machine' to the gym and lifted then swam.

It seems like sleeping in has become a theme for me. But my figuring is 1. if I'm that tired I probably need the sleep, too many people try to get all hard-core and forgoe sleep for training, but aren't going to get the benefit of that training if they don't sleep, 2. i've still got a little bit of a sore throat, which finally started feeling better the last two days, but it's worth staying rested and 3. it's not like I lose anything by working out later

I lifted, in the muscle transition phase, which is suppose to be more wieght, fewer reps, slower, etc. And I finally figured out how to actually use the leg press!! (yay!). SO, I did some leg press, some hamstring curl, some pull-ups, some lat pull-downs, etc. And it was maybe a little too much weight, because my legs were shaking on the leg press and hurt like a mother now.

I swam an easy 2500y, kicking, pulling, drills. My legs and abs hurt quite a bit from running the day before (since running is still rough) and from all that lifting.

This is my pool, at the Natomas Racquet Club:



I like my pool. The capitol athletic club is good, and you might see the Governator, but the pool isn't as good and the program isn't as good. The Natomas pool isn't over-heated and doesn't get cramped when 5 people try to swim.

Swam again, easy 1500y, today. My soccer game was cancelled because of the rain all week. They don't want to waste the fields on us. So I wanted to do similar running to substitute, but it started raining again.

Ran 3 miles on the treadmill at 8 minute pace, picked up the middle mile and half down to just sub 7 minute pace. Turned bright red and everyone was looking at me. Then I swam nice and easy. I like swimming easy after running, because my legs just feel like jello.

Now, going to take this Monday-Friday easy(ish) and then be in the Bay Area on the weekend for a Z-team ride maybe and a test ride of the bearathlon course. Bearathlon is a great, if not little sadistic, race. I'm just not sure if I'm in a racing place right now. Going to give the course a test ride and then wait and see how the weather is, cause of course it's suppose to start raining again.