Good/Bad

Monday I started off the week well. I ran 4 miles in 31:22 minutes. It was a great run! Last night I didn't get to the gym because I had a lot of house cleaning to do. Tonight I am planning on swimming and maybe doing weights. We will see!

Good Week So Far

I haven't written about my training for this week yet but I have done some.

Monday-I did some sprint swimming. I have a little routine of swimming 5 laps at a moderate pace and then sprinting 10 laps. I did this 4 times for a total of 64 laps (I swam 4 extra laps at the end).

Tuesday-I ran 3.75 miles in 28:30 minutes. I didn't realize until now that it was a pace of a 7:36 mile. Fantastic!

Wednesday-I swam 66 laps in 31:10 minutes. I swam two extra laps by accident. My muscles feel pretty sore but I think that is because of the lunges I have been doing also.

I am awesome!

Last night was a great workout. I made sure I would have enough energy to finish the night, which I tend to neglect sometimes. I started out with a 2 mile run. I ran it in 15:40 minutes. After that, I went to a spin class. After class the instructor told me that I did my sprints perfectly. She didn't want to embarrass me in front of the class, but she said she wanted to tell everyone to watch me during sprints. I like doing them. She paints the scenario of us racing to the front of a pack of riders. I can really visualize it. So far this week I have made it four times to the gym. Hopefully I will be going tonight and/or tomorrow morning!

Good so far

Tuesday I ran a total of 3.3 miles. My pace was about 8:00 minute/mile. I had to take a bathroom break at about 2.5 miles. That was lame. After, I did about 15-20 minutes of weights and then my yoga class. Wednesday I swam. I didn't feel like I got a great swim in. I swam a total of about 60 laps. I didn't time my laps...just swam some fast and some slow. I must have swam hard because today I am a little sore. Tonight I will be going to a cycle class and hopefully some running/other cardio before.

Yeah!

Last night I swam 64 laps in 29:10 minutes. That's a pretty good time. Tonight I am planning on running and cycling. My foot has been feeling better, but this morning I stepped on it wrong and it hurts a little bit now. Hopefully it will continue to heal because I am in full training mode.

Blah

I did not work out from Wednesday until Saturday morning. I felt pretty lazy last week. Saturday morning I ran about 2 1/2 miles around Orange. It was a gorgeous day outside. It felt great!

Getting better

Monday I swam for about 30 minutes. I did some drills. I swam 250m fast then 150m at a moderate pace. My fastest pace was 26.7 second/lap. I know drills are important, but I like the endurance swimming better. I will be swimming again tonight. Last night I did a long workout. First, I ran 2 miles in 16 minutes. Then jogged for 2:30 minutes. Then I finished with another 1/2 mile run. Next, I did some weightlifting for about 25 minutes. Last, I did my one-hour yoga class. This morning I woke up sore. I love that feeling.

Hmmmm

Well, I did my spin class on Thursday. I did ok. My foot just seems to hurt after periods of inactivity, like when I get up in the morning. Saturday I decided it would be ok to snowboard. I did fine for most of the day, but after about 4 hours my foot was done. I am going to try to stop babying my foot and just do stuff. Not doing anything sure didn't seem to help. I am not willing to let this stop me from doing the things I love. Anyways, tonight I will swim.

I have been inspired to start eating better and I am going to do that by 1) eating 5 or 6 small meals a day and 2) eating out a lot less. I can control what I eat at home. Today is day one and I have had two meals so far. I am going to eat a meal every 3 hours.

Awwww!

After reading my Triathlete magazine yesterday, I got super pumped to start training for real. But I still can't run and I am so frustrated. I will never take running for granted again, I promise. So yesterday I did the eliptical machine for 15 minutes and then some weights and then my yoga class. Tonight I will take off for family dinner but tomorrow I am going to try cycling.

Good but Bad

Yesterday I swam 80 laps in 38 minutes. That's not a bad time and I feel like I got a good workout. The bummer part is that my foot injury is still here and I can't run. I really want to run again. I hope my foot heals soon.

Last Week

Tuesday I attempted to run. I ran 3 whole miles and felt ok, but the next day my foot was hurting again, so I think I am going to lay off the running for another week or so. Oh, I ran 3.1 miles in 24:50 minutes. Wednesday I swam, but I was having a hard time with it. I felt like I was swimming really slow. Maybe it was because there were a lot of people in the pool and the water was slooshing a lot. I swam 64 laps in 30:15 minutes. No gym for the rest of the week because Skyler and I went to Las Vegas. I did do a lot of walking. I probably walked about 6 miles.

Swimming again

Last night I swam again. I swam 64 laps in 29:50 minutes. It went ok. I want to see progress, especially since this is the only exercise I have been doing for two weeks. My doctor said that cycling would be ok, but I don't want to push it. Argh!

Better

Monday night I swam 64 laps in 29:20 minutes. My time is getting better. Well, it better be because I have only been swimming lately. Tuesday night I attempted yoga. It was ok but I couldn't do a lot of stuff on both feet so my right leg is getting even more stronger than my left leg. Yesterday I went to the doctor and I have metatarsalgia which is a pain of the metatarsa bones. He said to stay off my foot as much as possible so I guess that means I will be swimming tonight.

This sucks

I injured my foot somehow while snowboarding last weekend. I am going to get it checked out next week. So in terms of training, I can only swim. Yesterday I swam 70 laps in 33:20 minutes. It was a little slower than I swam on Monday, but I am ok with it. I will be swimming again tonight. Hopefully I can get some weight lifting in also.

Swim Week

Last weekend we went snowboarding at Mammoth. It was definitely a great workout for my legs. Well, I think I pulled a tendon or something in my foot because I am having a hard time walking on it. So yesterday I swam because I didn't want to put pressure on my foot. I swam 64 laps in 29:40 minutes. That is a better time. My foot is still feeling weird today so I think I should stick to swimming this week.

Go Elise!

I have made it to the gym three days this week! I am having a great start. Last night I went to a new spin class at my new gym. I really liked the instructor (Heather B). I did 8 minutes of the eliptical machine before class. Wednesday night I ran 3.3 miles in 26 minutes. Then I did some weights for about 15 minutes. This weekend I am going snowboarding so that will work my muscles a lot!

Wow! Long lost friend!

I went swimming tonight at the gym. It was wonderful. I looked back at my old posts and discovered that I hadn't swam in a month...since January 7. I was actually a little scared to begin swimming again because I knew it had been a while, but once I started swimming everything came back to me. It felt so good. I swam 50 laps in 23:47. Then I did the stair machine for 20 minutes. This was a good start to my training. Tomorrow I will ran and do weights. Today I weighed 109.

Yeah, I did it!

I made it to the gym two times this week. I guess that is not too bad for a start. But the bummer part is that I feel like I have to work my way up to where I was just a few weeks ago. Running three miles is so hard now. I can do it though. Saturday I ran 3 miles in 24:18 minutes. Then I did the stair machine for 5 minutes. This week I will start kicking butt again. Speaking of swimming and biking, I haven't done those things for about a month. It will be hard to get back into those again. I can do it though. I am ready to look great. I told Skyler that I will be down to 105 in two months, if my muscle doesn't weight too much.

Not as bad as I thought

Well, I think I forgot to mention that I have been pigging out for the past two weeks, along with not working out. I expected to gain about 4 pounds. But last night I weighed myself at the gym and the damage isn't too bad. I would say that I gained about 2-1/2 pounds. The bummer part about that is that I probably gained more than that and lost muscle too. Anyways, I finally made it back to the gym last night. I ran 3.1 miles in 24:40 minutes and then did the eliptical machine for 6 more minutes. That's a good start. Tonight I am hoping to go to a spin class. Good luck to me!

Big Time Slacker

We have been so busy with the holidays and moving that I have not had the time to get to the gym in two weeks! I can't believe that it has been that long! I am planning on going tonight. I will probably run. I need to start my triathlon training. Ok, I think my plan will be to use two weeks to get back into the swing of things, and then I will start my training. I will be training for each event twice a week and going to the gym 5 days a week. One of the days will be a double event day. Good luck to me! My goal is three triathlons this year, with improvement on all repeat events.