I can do it!

I slept in today...for real!  It was so nice.  Then I puttered around all day, and totally neglected my workout.  So this evening, I had a half hour rehearsal out at Tuacahn, so I decided I'd make it worth going out there by riding my bike.  I had just over an hour to kill, so I rode for 1:06:15, and covered 16.09 miles.  Then I sang for awhile at rehearsal, and hopped back on the bike to ride to the pool.  Ben had met me there, so we did another 7.45 miles in 24:02.  We did an interval workout at the pool, swimming a total of 2500 meters, and then jumped back on our bikes to head home.  That was another 9:06 miles in 31:33, giving me a grand total of 32.6 miles in 2:01:50.  Not too bad for a recovery workout, says I.  :D

I got to teach my first Bootcamp today - it was so fun!  But since I was teaching, I wasn't working out.  Heehee!

I made up for it tonight at the lake.  I did a half-mile swim (actually it was more like a half-mile near-drowning!) and then hopped on the bike for the 15 mile out-n-back on those horrible rollers and steep grades.  Oh, how my body needs rest!  I celebrated with Ben afterwards at Del Taco Taco Tuesday, and then topped it off with a bowl of ice cream.  I think I'll go to sleep now....

Nothing but a lousy 2.5 miles this morning with my daughter. We ran it in 24:03. I feel like such a slacker...

I got up this morning thinking I would try a HIIT seesion on the treadmill, but I guess it's too soon after the marathon. My legs were NOT wanting to go!  So I did a warm-up run for 15 minutes, increasing in tempo from 5.0 MPH to 8.0 MPH, then I walked for a minute, and then did a short interval starting at 6.5 MPH and increasing to 9.5 MPH.  Then I jogged for a minute to cool down.  I ended up doing 2.33 miles in 21:00.  I may have done more, but I ran out of time, and had to be at bootcamp.

So for bootcamp this morning, Stephany taught plyometrics.  I was trying not to do too much, but I think I still did, anyway.  My body is really tired.  Stupid recovery!!!  How long is this going to take?!?  :D

I had this brilliant idea to do my "long run" today instead of tomorrow, since we're thinking about riding the Gunlock loop on our bikes tomorrow.  My regular training schedule has me doing eight miles tomorrow, but it doesn't take into account the fact that I just ran a marathon and am supposed to be in recovery.  So I decided I would just run the 6 miles up to bootcamp this morning, and call it good.  I talked Britnee into joining me, and we left an hour before bootcamp was supposed to start.  Well, first I forgot to close the front door when I left, so we had to go back and close it...which cost us an extra .55 mile.  Then I realized that my legs were SO tired, I couldn't make them go faster than a 9 minute pace!  Plus, the entire way there is uphill, with a STEEP hill at the end of the run.  I could barely walk it by the time I got there.  And it was a tiny bit farther than I had anticipated.  So in the end, we ran 7.35 miles, and it took us 1:22:49....WAY longer than I had planned.  I have no idea how I'm going to pull off a 50-mile bike ride tomorrow.  :(

Whew!  That wasn't anywhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be!  Ben and I got up at 5:00 this morning, and were out the door on our bikes by 5:50 AM.  We met up with a group of friends and proceeded to do part of the IM bike course...including the Gunlock loop and the dreaded "wall" into Veyo.  I was pretty scared about the whole thing, but gave myself permission to call home if I couldn't make it all the way.  Little did I realize that I couldn't get any reception on my cell phone, or I may not have gone - hahaha!  Anyway, I really took it easy on the ride, because Ben had warned me that the hardest part about doing the wall is all the rollers before you get there, that tire out your leg muscles so you have nothing left to climb with.  What a surprise when I reached the wall...it wasn't the monstrosity that I had always imagined it would be!  In fact, except for the last couple hundred feet, it was a relatively easy climb.  Now I never have to be afraid of that silly thing again!  :D

I ended up doing about 60 miles total, in about four hours, not including stops.  I was a little negligent with my garmin, but that's my closest estimate.  When I got home, I decided to try out a transition run, so I immediately put on my running shoes and headed out to try my legs.  I did a 5K run in 29:05 - surprisingly not too bad considering I had just finished 60 miles on the bike!  I feel much more confident about doing the triathlon next month.  Now if I could just conquer the swim....