So Saturday I did 2:15 on the trainer, and I rode pretty hard. I surprised myself because I didn't sleep well Friday night for some reason. I just got into the pain, though, and as soon as I finished, I decided to do 200 crunches and 200 air squats, what the hell. That was interesting! I wondered if I would feel at all sore from that the next day, but nope. Which proves that my abs and quads can take a pretty good beating.
Saturday night I went to a dinner party which was tons of fun, especially watching people watch me polish off 2 desserts and I wanted the last one, but someone snatched it up before I could get to it! I drank some wine (I forget how much) and had a beer with dinner, and figured I'd probably have a little hangover on Sunday.
Which I did. Not like this would be the first time I've ever gone riding with one. I was determined yesterday to ride while it was warm out, so I packed up LGL in the car and drove to Fermilab. Unfortunately, it never quite got very warm even though I didn't start riding until 11:15, and the entire time of my 3-hour tour I was wearing tights and a jacket. But it was still nice to be out in the sunshine. It was pretty windy, too, and I was humbled by the wind. It was my first 3-hour stint outdoors this year, and my "outdoor riding" muscles could tell. Whole lot different riding outside than on the trainer. My power was off where it should have been, but considering how I was feeling and how cold I was, I just didn't care.
The fun part would be running off the bike. I hadn't really taken in enough calories while riding, but I was plenty caffeinated, since I'd used my Infinit Money Shot (tm) formula that is pretty insanely loaded with caffeine. I can even remember having some really fun thoughts while I was on the bike because it was almost like I was high!
Anyway, I changed out of the tights into shorts but left my Trashy Cat arm warmers on. That was the first time I'd used them, and I love them! They were just perfect for the cooler temps. As soon as I started running, I was thankful for the flatness of Fermilab, but I did experience immediate brick suck. I knew I would, so too bad. The last few weeks, whenever I feel like crap (tired or otherwise), I just tell myself, "It's going to feel much worse during TTT so HFTU you lazy-ass!" And then I do whatever I need to do. So while my stomach was none too happy, I just took short steps and felt like I was running through concrete, but I'm pretty sure I had a halfway decent pace (for me). I ran out for 20 minutes knowing full well that on my way in I was going right into the east headwind, which of course didn't feel that bad while running. I made it back in the same amount of time, which I was happy for.
Since I knew I was underfed, I decided to pull into the McDonald's which is right outside of Fermilab, and I got a cheeseburger and small fries, and they disappeared pretty quickly while I drove home. I was also drinking some Endurox R4, and all I could think was fuck, I'm tired!
When I got home, I showered and put PJ's on because I was cold and knew I'd stay cold for awhile, downed a beer, prepared some meatloaf and put it in the microwave, and got down and stretched a good 1/2 hour. I thought, oh shit, am I going to be toast tomorrow, but whatever.
I ate a little of the meatloaf and should have had some salad but just didn't want any. I ended up deciding I really didn't want too much meatloaf, either, but that I wanted CAKE! So I cut a thin slice and ate that. It was so good, I cut another slice, but a little thicker. Still hungry, so I had slice #3 and then I decided I still wanted another serving of meatloaf, so I had that and that finally did it for me!
I did some reading in bed, and it took awhile to fall asleep because of all the caffeine I'd ingested, but I think I still ended up getting 8 hours of sleep. When I awoke this morning, I thought oh my fucking God I'm totally shelled, but I suited up to go swim and do some other crap and figured I'd just see how it went.
I wanted to fall asleep while I was laying on the exercise mat at the Y doing crunches, but I still managed to knock out 15 chinups, 120 crunches and 60 pushups, then I chased it with 7 minutes of jump rope. I had brought more coffee with me for this effort, and then I headed into the pool.
The pool was so fucking nice today! I think it was maybe 81. Well, I couldn't leak out on a good swim workout with a cold pool, could I? Hell no. So I finished the called-for 3,050 yard workout and thought maybe I could skip my run today?
But here I sit about to suit up and go get that run done, even though it means driving back to the Y to run on the dreadmill because it's rainy and shitty outside. Later today I get a massage and a haircut, so a little pampering for me! Now if somebody would just come and feed me while I am laying down, I'd be all set!
This week my long run goes up to 2 hours and maybe if it warms up this weekend I'll do a longer ride (70-ish miles) on Sunday. I am happy that I have already done some training today, considering I was seriously considering a rest day! But I'll save that up for when I feel much worse than I do now.
Here are the happy totals for the week:
| Weekly Workout Totals | 04/06/2009-04/12/2009 This week's totals are sponsored by Harden the Fuck Up |
| Swim: | 10000 yards (5.68 miles) in 3.47 hours; 20% of weekly workout time; approx. 1215 calories burned Canadian: 9144 meters |
| Bike: | Approx. 133.18 miles in 7.03 hours; 42% of weekly workout time; approx. 4106 calories burned; Total TSS=477 Canadian: 214.33 kilometers |
| Run: | Approx. 34.09 miles in 5.15 hours; 30% of weekly workout time; approx. 2335 calories burned Canadian: 54.86 kilometers |
| Strength: | 1.28 hours; 8% of weekly workout time; approx. 320 calories burned |
| All Sports: | Approx. 172.95 miles in 16.93 hours; approx. 7976 calories burned Canadian: 278.34 kilometers |
| Sleep: | 7.64 hours avg./night |
| Stretching: | 2.35 hours. Massage: 1 hours |
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