I rode my bike home from work today. I may not be the wisest choice. We’re heading out of town this weekend, and I want to leave in the mid-afternoon tomorrow — I could have spent the extra time getting ready. But I haven’t ridden in a few weeks, and it was the warmest day we’ve had this spring, and there wasn’t much wind. I had to ride! Continue reading →

Tomorrow is the end of my “no strenuous activity for seven days” purgatory. It’s sucked. Continue reading →

First Pity Party of This Week:

We were transporting a rescue dog; he bit me. He didn’t do anything wrong, and I don’t think I did anything wrong, either. (Sometimes the transport itself is very stressful, because the dog is being handed off from one stranger to another, repeatedly.) Continue reading →

I ran Badger Mountain on Friday. I had an 8-mile run scheduled for Saturday, but with the weekend The Hubs and I had laid out, I wanted to get the run out of the way so my workout wouldn’t interrupt our plans. I haven’t run Badger in about a month; I think running it once a month is enough to gauge my fitness progress. Continue reading →

I’d devoted so much effort the preparing for the Richland Half Marathon and the St Patrick’s Day 10K that I hadn’t spent any time looking ahead. I have several other races already on the calendar scattered throughout the summer and early fall, but I hadn’t set up a training schedule. Continue reading →

Today’s 10K was a personal record for me. It was my first 10K race, so, um, no matter what the result, it would have been a PR.

I didn’t have a specific goal for this race. That isn’t really a good idea. I think most coaches will tell you it’s a terrible idea. Why put a race on your calendar if you don’t know why you’re running it? As I mentioned in my last post, doing a 10K two weeks after a half marathon was not a great idea. It isn’t enough time to recover from the HM and start training for the 10K. Continue reading →

I can be frightfully inconsistent over a season. From weeks when I don’t miss a single or shorten a single workout and my nutrition is pretty dialed in, to weeks when I skip a few workouts, or I half-ass workouts, and I can’t seem to stop eating EVERYTHING IN SIGHT, they’re all a part of me. Continue reading →

Although it was breezy, Saturday was a great day to get some yard work done. The Hubs tilled the main garden bed. I weeded most of our front walkway, cleaned up the sedum in that walkway, weeded part of another bed, transplanted a bay laurel shrub, and put beet, kohlrabi, pea, lettuce, and spinach seeds in the ground. Continue reading →

I haven’t come up with a formal training schedule to replace the half-marathon training. My next event is a 10K on March 12th. I have a 5K in April, and then Bloomsday is the first Sunday in May. Although this is a very run-focused spring, I’m trying not lose my edge (if one can call it that) in triathlon. Continue reading →

Done!

I was going a little nuts the last few days. I ate waaaaay too much. On the plus side, it wasn’t junk food, but it was still too much. I need to learn how to survive tapers. Continue reading →