Swim on Wednesday morning

JP tells me I should try to get out to one more swim during the week, so I have chosen Wednesday mornings. It is a long course swim which is okay because it marginally feels like open water swimming...especially when I get run over by GP as he trys to pass someone in his own lane...shoulder checks are critical when trying to do that....just a tip. Anyway, didn't really matter as I did not have a good swim. I was tired and just could not get any get up and go. But I was there, got in about 2400 meters...watched the kids in the Goldfins finish their workout. Wow...I do not remember being that small!! One gal looked like she was doing 200m Fly sets...holy god!! Off for a bike workout tonight.

Tuesday morning run

Got up at at it this morning and got my 55 minute run in. It was minus 17 degrees out today. I tried to take a picture of myself after the run all frosted up, but they were a bit goofy and by the time I had found the memory card, pulled the camera out, got set up, most of the ice had melted off my face and head. The run felt good, okay, not the first 10 minutes, but after I found the groove, went pretty good. This was the only run on my schedule this week. Going to try to get out for a swim tomorrow am and I have my cycling class tomorrow evening. Then a cycle on Friday and a cycling mini-camp on Saturday for 2 hours...I think I may take a barf bucket to that one. The schedule says an hour on the trainer, then some work on the track at the field house, then some of my fave...core work. And I am thinking, dinner and drinks afterwards!! I'm telling you, if I do not have abs of friggin steel by spring/summer after all of this, I will be seriously pissed. Someone asked me last week if I wanted to just look good or have a good race...my answer (sarcastically) was that I wanted to look good, of course!! DUH!!?? Kind of like The Universe said the other day...when you walk by with confidence, others will see you and think "...just like that". Or something like that, can't remember exactly what it was...

Week Deux

Here I am faced with my second week of the Carmichael via Justin training plan. Week one went pretty good. Everytime I post about a workout, JP has also asked me to do a Core Workout. 15 minutes. I have to ask him if he is kidding (but I doubt it) because I can only hold those poses for about 15 seconds!! He says when I have "mastered the excercises" he will give me more. Seriously, the entire thing takes me about 7 minutes....my core sucks. BUT when I was at the pool yesterday, my guts felt tight and stronger than ever before, so I will work my way up to the 15 minutes I am supposed to be doing. I need to go bikini shopping again to keep my motivation keen on this one!!
And I jumped onto the scale yesterday at the pool. I do not own a scale because I know I am the type of person that will get onto it every day and then be dissappointed when the number is not what I had hoped. I try to remember to get onto it every week after my swim. So here is MY number....gulp....stagger....hesitate....spit....159.5 Let's see where it goes after all this training is done!!

3400 meters at the pool today

But that is not the story from today. I came up on an embarrassing situation at the pool this morning. I showed up just a few minutes late and while getting my cap and goggles on, I was absently staring off into space as I had been up most of the night with a sick kid, and one of the guys in the group was in the water near the end of the pool. I was looking down, but not really AT him, and he yanked his swim trunks out to adjust the drawstring and...well...I...ummm....saw "the junk"!! AHHHH!! It was one of those moments, I quickly looked away and around to see if anyone else was looking at me because I am sure the look on my face once my brain registered what was happening was an odd one. He does not often show up for swimming and I don't know him at all, so I was horrified that this had happened!! Not that I would have felt any better seeing some of "the junk" of the guys I have gotten to know...but you know what I am saying, right? Anyway, the swim overall was good. The main set was 5 x 400 with some drill and pull stuck in the middle. It turned out to be mostly a straight swim for me for each 400 as I was having trouble keeping up with being so tired.

Saturday morning bike workout

Up and at it today and onto the bike. I need a name for my bike. Seems like everyone has a name for their bike, so far I call mine "The Yellow Cervelo". The workout called for 3 sets of the Muscle Tension Drill and 3 sets of the Fast Pedal Drill. I can hear my dad's voice..."always do more than they ask" So I did 4 sets of each. Not because I think I am any kind of cyclist but I get on the bike most times out of pure terror as I do not want to embarrass myself in July! I am starting to lose that fear a wee bit after speaking to Justin. Yesterday I asked him why I am not running much as I have that Hypo Half coming up. He says "You can run a half marathon. I am not worried about that. Just wait, because you are going to run a fast one in May. This one is for fun." Who would have EVER thought I would run a half marathon FOR FUN!!! Kind of puts a new perspective on things for me. And of course"fast" is relative. I told him I wanted to go under 2 hours in May. I was close once (and three months pregnant) so with some help now, and no baby on the way, maybe this will be the year!!