February 2nd, Friday
Today was a strange Training Day. It was scheduled to be a swim day. After having had a nice bike ride yesterday and a solid running workout on Wednesday, I was determined to put in a solid swim session today in the heated pool. However, when I woke up this morning the weather was not pleasant. The sky had a heavy overcast, the temperature was in the upper 50s and the wind was humming pretty steadily. My quadriceps were quite tight and sore from yesterday’s bike workout. Wednesday and Thursday had seen the two most aggressive workouts I had done in sometime. I could feel myself sinking slowly into the wimp stage. But I sucked it up, dressed quite warm and headed out to do a very slow run. It was a struggle at first, but I spent the first 15 minutes doing extended warm up. I threw in some leg swings some karaoke and a few squats and lunges. I managed to push through three pretty slow miles with achy quadriceps that did improve as time went on. The entire workout was about 56 minutes with 50 minutes of warm up and 3 miles in about 40 minutes. By the time I got back the sun was out, the temperature had risen and the skies had cleared. So I sucked it up once more and headed to the pool a little while nervous about how I would feel in water. In the pool I did a few more exercises and then swim 20 laps 250. All in all I got more done than I thought I was going to get done early in the morning and I’m pretty happy with the whole day. We will see how my legs respond in the morning.
Stats-
I-Mad and I-Mid = 1/2
Weight = #153 😊
Workout = NOT WHIMPY 56 MINUTES