rest day thursday

Today? Rest Day.

I made it to a rest day!! Yey! I slept so hard last night that when I woke up this morning, my arms were above my head and I could not feel them cause they were asleep. It was really weird and freaky. You know how you come out of a really deep sleep and you are trying to remember what day it is? do I work today? am I supposed to run? bike? swim? But then I could not feel my arms! I was telling my fingers to move but could not feel them. I thought this may be what a person with no arms feels like. Then the tingling started as all the blood was making its way back. I am telling you, it was really weird!!!

And I dug out my juicer last night. I bought a kick ass juicer about 12 years ago. Have used it on and off but not for a few years now. I actually thought it was broken but then I remembered I did get it fixed and was annoyed I hadn't dug it out long ago!! But today I juiced two apples, a huge carrot and a beet. SO GOOD!! And so good for you. Luke drank a good bunch as well... I am going to try to juice a few times a week. Everyday is just too much for me as the thing is a b*tch to clean.

I was reading a blog yesterday about a gal that did not buy any new clothes for 3 months. Oh...my...god... How is this possible? I buy a new something about once a week!! A purse or a skirt or a sweater or a piece of jewellery....I also heard on the radio today that one of the new things for 2009 is to by fashions for cheap. Wha? This is new? As my dear husband puts it "Just cause you find it on sale, does not mean you need it..." Ta!!

far from 3000 meters

The showers are awesome at the YWCA.
And that is the only positive thing I am taking away from this morning's swim! Got up in good time, got to the pool ready to roll as I really wanted to get in my 3000 meters. The pool? A FRIGGING BATH TUB!!! Omg it was SO warm! It is normally warm but it was stupidly warm today. Did my warm up...300 swim easy; 300 pull easy; 300 kick; 200 swim.
The main set was 5 x 200 on 10 seconds rest. I alternated freestyle and IM just for kicks. Got that done and did a 200 meter warm down and was outta there. Slightly disappointed but I was getting a head ache from working sorta hard in that water. Called her quits (but 2200 meters in about 45 minutes...or so....) and enjoyed a very long HOT shower and listened to two older ladies describe a friend's heart surgery, the drugs they are on and how best to color in their eye brows....

let's do some...

...fartlek intervals!!
Today's workout was some steady running and then 5 sets of 1 minute fartlek intervals with 2 minutes easy jogging in between. I asked if I could do them on the treadmill (cause it is still too cold out for me to do this outside) and this was the response:

• The easy/moderate part of your running should be comfortable the "intervals" should be easy to ramp up the speed until you are running faster than normally and just on the edge of control and good form. If your form falls off, you are running too fast. In between, return back to that comfortable pace and try to catch your breath to get ready for the next effort. I like to think of these as surges in pace. The nice thing about the treadmill is that you can see your progress as you will know exactly how fast you are running the efforts, so you can build on prior workouts and try to have a slow but steady increase in your interval pace....

The funny thing is that during one of the intervals I was running super hard (in my opinion), on the "edge of control", I look in the mirror to check out my form....and I just...looked...so...slow! And a bit dorky in my super old Huskies shirt (circa 1994) and my adidas shorts with the hem completely gone...maybe I should invest in some cool workout clothes then I will feel cool? Felt fast, looked slow. Aw well, they are done and in the bank so that's what counts! Next up is a swim tomorrow. The workout he sent me is some crazy meters in the pool...3000 meters in one hour. Think I can do it? Should be able to as the main set is a bunch of 200s. But NO chatting tomorrow!!

the last few days

I totally forgot to log/blog about my suckmill run on Friday. Too excited about my new ride!! It was minus 8000 out with the wind so I printed off a week pass for one of the local gyms up the street and went in for an hour run on their suckmill. I am so not a gym person. I do however love to people watch and I just don't know how some of them get a workout in by standing around for the majority of the hour!! I guess it is their social time but I don't have that option so I do my workout and get outta there. And I have been spoiled at my little office gym...with the huge tv cause the little tv's hung up above the treadmills were...well...really little!!

On the schedule yesterday was a bike ride. I waited and I waited and got a ton of stuff done around the house and several errands done throughout the day and had intended to get on the bike after supper. My buddy called in a very low state (the one who recently found out her date of many years has been fooling around on the side...) and we talked for a good 90 minutes. Wow. We have all been there and I want to tell her she will be fine, but she just doesn't want to hear about it right now. She just needs a listening ear and I'm good at that so we talked and cried and laughed and swore for the hour and a half. I think she felt better as another friend of ours has invited her to Mexico for a week and I encouraged her to go. She couldn't give me any solid reasons as to why she shouldn't go. Get some plans together, get out of town, try not to sit at home...this was my advice...it's what I did when I got dumped flat on my ass many, many years ago. But not without my Dad picking me up first. So it's my turn to help someone else up off their butt. And I totally stole Jenna's quote "when you pick these pieces up and try to put them back together, they won't fit like they did before...but you have to pick them up, put one foot in front of the other and get moving." Thanks Jenna for being so wise!!!!

So back to me. I ended up getting the ride in this morning before my swim. Was a good bike workout and an even better swim. I jumped in with the top lane and struggled to keep up, but managed. All said about 3000 meters.

On the plan this week is all sorts of stuff. Coach Justin had e-mailed me last week to let me know my January was up so I called him all excited about the new year and new goals and getting started on things...he says "Have you really looked at the workouts?" I say "Well, no. I am just excited!" Justin says "Get your head in the battle cause the next two weeks are going to hurt."

Gulp.

let's start it out right...

With a NEW CAR!!!!
Whoop!! Whoop!!
That's right, super excited to introduce my new-to-me Subaru Tribeca! (it's silver...how cool is THAT...?)
Loaded.
Power everything.
Heated seats.
Sunroof.
Tinted windows.
Room, room and more room!!
WARRANTY!!!!
Let's put it into perspective...I currently drive a 1995 Chev Cavalier...two doors...it is only the second car I have every owned, I have NEVER had a car payment (gulp)...I don't trust it anymore (sigh)....it was just time.
BUT The Cav has a new career....ICE RACING!!!!!!!! Shaun wants to put a roll cage on it, some studded tires and zoom zoom...he has himself an ice racing bullet!!!
Only in Saskatchewan.