Mish-Mosh

Still battling....

The URI (upper respiratory infection).

MAD FACE!

Last week, I started the week feeling SIGNIFICANTLY better!

So, I hit my workouts hard, since I slacked  "rested" over the weekend.

Endurance hill ride


Then straight to the gym for interval swim:

400easy warm up
10x50 level 4 15s rest in between
4x75 level 4 20s rest
4x100 level 4 25s rest
100 easy cool down

Wednesday,  I felt like I had razor blades in my throat!!! Additionally, my right ear felt "full" and my cough got worse. So, I went to Physical Therapy but did NOT go to the gym after to run.

Thursday was a loooooong day in clinic. My throat was still killing me so again and I had one of the docs look into my ear. There wasn't a lump of ear wax or a bug in there... but there was a bunch of fluid behind the TM (tympanic membrane). He said it didn't look infected, but could easily get there.

I went home instead of the gym after clinic. Was thinking it would not be very nice to get into the pool and get all my germs in there.

Friday, not a whole lot better.  I planned to head to the gym to at least get on the elliptical and maybe even swim. Didn't happen. Went to bed early.

Saturday morning; one hour 30min run.....

Since the duathalon, I've been doing my "run" workouts on the elliptical/aqua jogging.

To put it plainly, I FELT HORRIBLE running. I couldn't keep my heart rate where I needed to and my body hurt all over.

Not going to get into Saturday day.....

I will say, I had a fantastic time at the Giants-Reds Spring Training game and went to bed before 8pm.

Sunday, rested most of the morning (watched basketball, VCU!!!!!! Then Big 10 Championship).

Around 3pm, we headed out for a 3 hour bike ride. Felt Ok. Coughed a lot near the end and was exhausted after.

This week is a "rest" week before the Havasu Olympic Tri so workouts are reduced.

Still have a cough and can't hear out of my right ear. But my throat is definitely better!!

Additionally, we are supposed to do some time trials. They help when planning future workouts with regards to pace and HR.

Today, I did a bike TT.

15min warm up; 30min as hard and fast as possible; 10-15 cool down. Supposed to report distance and avg HR for the 30min. Below are my splits for the entire workout. I went about 9.6 miles and average HR of 159 in the 30min (16.75miles total in 1hr 3min).

 I don't think the TT outcome was GREAT, but considering how sick I've been, I just wanted to do it and see how it went.....we'll see what my coach says.

I'm going to do my swim TT tomorrow and will likely not do a run TT given the HORRIBLE condition of my current running state.

 Now for REALLY FUN stuff. Simon and I started a little project a couple months ago.

A POTTED GARDEN!!!

 We finally have things growing well enough to show :-)

Kale, cilantro is next to it

these poor guys got a little frost a few weeks ago.....

There is cilantro in the pot with the parsley, kale and spinach,  as well as two kinds of thyme......but for some reason the pictures is not showing up to allow me to post here....

Simon at the first strawberry yesterday and we used some cilantro for breakfast today.

I'm going to make one of Simon's favorites for supper and use some parsley and thyme.

I will probably wait to post again until after the Havasu Tri.

HOORAY FOR MARCH MADNESS!!!!! Love this time of year!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous week!

Desert Classic Duathalon 3/3/13

WINNING.

It was a TOUGH race!!

Race details:

Run 3.5 mi (trail run)
Bike 24 mi (road)
Run 3.6 mi (same trail run course)

The run map doesn't do it justice, but here's the bike map..........yes, the red bumpy line is showing HILLS...........

Needless to say, my second run was A LOT slower than my first, my legs were TIIIIIIIRED :-(

I felt good on the bike. Running continues to be my nemesis.

This race brought out some hard core racers.... so it was great competition.

And, there were NOT only 3 women in my age group, so placing was pretty great!

I got hit by some sort of illness Wednesday afternoon/evening that hit me the hardest yesterday and today, so this week's workouts have been tough.

Monday: 1500m swim (400 easy, 4x50 drills 15s rest in between, 3x400m level 3 then 100 cool down)

Tuesday: 1hr tempo ride (15m level 1-2, 35m level 3, 10m level 1-2)

Wednesday: I was not feeling so great during the night so I didn't get up before clinic to run...which always turns out to be a bad choice.... I had PT after clinic at 5 then went to the gym 7-8 and did 1hr tempo run (on the elliptical) (15m level 1, 35m level 3 and 10m level 1).

Thursday: NO WORKOUT DONE..... had a meeting at 6:30am downtown (left the house at 5:45 since we are house/dog sitting for my parents), clinic from 9-5 and I was COMPLETELY exhausted (chills, sweats, headache, chest ache, cough, runny nose....) I was supposed to do a swim, but decided it would be best to keep the gallons of snot from my head out of the community pool......

Friday: still resting. Had work meetings all morning.

 Was planning on swimming and running (swim: 400m easy, 10x50 level 4, 4x75 level 4, 4x100 level 4, 100 easy. Run: 1hr tempo). Might still make it, but have pretty much lost my voice and cough anytime I breath too deeply so, it's probably better to rest.

Saturday: 3hr bike
Sunday: 1h30m run

It's supposed to get sunny tomorrow so planning on the bike and run.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!!

 P.S. Simon placed 1st in his age group....he did the off road race: 3.5m run (same route as us) 15m off road bike and 3.6m run. GREAT JOB SIMON!!! 

Next race on the schedule: March 23:

Havasu Triathalon (Olympic Distance)