This week was a sort of test! I had a full week of travel. Work trip then personal trip to Nashville. Could I fit in all the workouts on the road with full days of facilitation and full afternoons of hanging out with friends, drinking a few and listening to live music???. Spoiler alert! Yes, I could!
Sunday – Bike the Drive! My first time.
I rode north on the lakefront path approximately 20 minutes to meet Amy. Then we got on the drive! I rode approximately 2 hours and 5 minutes with Amy, down and back the drive.
This was cool! It was fun to be on the road without the cars. And, it was not as crowded as I thought it might be. Fun!
Would love to do this with the whole family next year.
About a 20-minute ride home. = 165 minutes
Monday – Got up at 6:30am on the holiday to get a swim and bike in before leaving on a work trip. Swim session, didn’t really want to do it. I just moved forward. No need to think about it. Just keep going.
Wu – 5 x 75m; Main – 2 x 1000m (27:35 & 27:33) Did the second one 50% bilateral!; Cd – 250m – all bilateral! Totaled 2625m = 1 hour, 20 minutes
Biked 90 minutes. One hour of it overlapped with a cycling class. Felt good on flats and hills. Any kind of sprints were awful. At least in the first half of class, legs were dogging it.
My cycling instructor asked me if the long days were getting tough. Phew, it’s more the “day after day after day” that’s getting tough. You do a long ride then you turn the corner and it’s time for a long swim!
Right now the left side of my neck and left shoulder are sore. It’s probably all the swimming piled up in the second half of last week, and then biking and looking over my left shoulder doesn’t help. Hope and intend for this to loosen up over the next couple days. = 170 minutes
Tuesday – Met my co-facilitators at 7:30 a.m., was onsite all day, and debriefed with co-facilitators at end of day. I got back to hotel about 6:30 p.m. Ran outside from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., some hills. Good to get this training on the hills! One hour run with strides every 5 minutes. It was over 80 degrees, so I went slow. Seems like most of the strides ended up on uphills. Although it was probably pretty evenly distributed. Biked in the fitness center from just after 8pm to just after 10pm. (So you know, worked out all night). Called home, called my sister, called my Mom, reviewed facilitation prep for next day and ordered dinner from the bike. Ate and went to bed. = 120 minutes
Wednesday – Off. Front loaded the week.
Thursday – Got home last night from North Carolina and now traveling this morning to Nashville. I planned to get up at 5:00 a.m. to swim from 5:30 – 6:45, to be back to take the kids to Before School with my husband. I woke up with the alarm and felt stuffy and thought I’d be likely to make myself sick if I got up and did it. So I set the alarm for 1.5 hours later, yet didn’t sleep much more. Oh well, just choose your attitude, here we go.
My current plan for skipping this workout is to do it Sunday instead of a 30-minute continuous easy swim workout. Workable – certainly – yet I’ll miss not having that easy session! And it might be tough energizing myself to go swim (and run!) after traveling home from Nashville and driving out to western burbs to pick up the kids.
It’s the new name of the game – just go work out.
We can also see if I can fit it in in Nashville. I’ll fit in at least one swim session at the Y while I’m there.
Today I already need to do a 100-minute run when we arrive, so I likely don’t want to ask my husband to wait another 1.5 – 2 hours for me to complete a swim as well.
Integrating life!
Did the 1 hour, 40-minute run shortly after arriving in Nashville. Hot. Hot. Very hot. Went slow, listened to my body.
Hot, my face was so hot. Found a park I’d been to on my last visit to Nashville and at 60 minutes, went in a building, drank, fueled, tried to cool off a bit. Tough finish. And finish I did. Average 10:43. Hot! (did I mention that??) = 100 minutes
Friday – Packed up to go down to the fitness center to bike 3 hours. It was hot in there, so I asked the folks at the front desk to cool it off. Went back and saw NO BIKES! What? A fitness center with no bikes! I stood there stunned, and then regrouped.
Ok, back up to the room packed up for the YMCA. Nice welcome there, and I was shown to the cycling room. Set up my nest and started peddling. And was working. I was handling logistics around my husband’s hip surgery. (That’s a whole other story.) Hip surgery, non-weight bearing for 2 to 3 weeks, no driving for 4 weeks. We had to schedule it soon and I have work trips every week so we’re moving him and the kids to his parents – where he can live on one floor – for 2.5 weeks. I thought I was already buried in logistics (and guilt about being gone) = MORE!
Back to the cycling studio: Approximately 1 hour, 15 minutes into my ride, people started showing up. A class was starting in 15 minutes! Alright! Won’t be able to work and chip away at these logistics, but 45 minutes will go by and challenge me some. Yay!
It was an hour class – even better – finished last 40 minutes on my own.
Then upstairs for 30 minutes on the treadmill. = 210 minutes
Saturday – Swim session at the Nashville Y. Deceiving, the wider lanes made it seem shorter than 25m, but it was 25m. (Checked with two people and the timing of my laps matched up.)
Wu = 6 x 50m; Main = 2 x 1500m (42:08 and 43:40) 1st felt good, 2nd my head hurt by last 400, ugh! Cd = 4 x 50m
Wasn’t able to do new trick of putting a little conditioner under cap. = 105 minutes
TOTAL = 870 minutes = 14.5 hours
- Swim – 185 minutes = 21%
- Bike – 525 minutes = 60%
- Run – 160 minutes = 19%
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