Going With The Flow

AM - 5 miles on the Lakeshore Trail in Duluth. Beautiful morning! My hamstrings were super tight, but not painful. 

PM - 8ish mile bike ride, touring the area. Lots of walking around as well. 

AM - 4 miles in Minneapolis. I wasn't planning to run today, but I hate to travel without a little exercise so went out for a slow jog. We were planning to get into Salt Lake last night but a delayed flight had us stuck in Minneapolis until this morning. Jake used his amazing bargaining skills to get us each $300 worth of Delta dollars, as well as a hotel and $80+ worth of food vouchers. Totally worth getting into Salt Lake a day late. Luckily, my boss is super nice and is letting me make up the time the rest of the week instead of taking vacation.

Hamstrings are still super tight. I have a lot unilateral pains....left leg is definitely more sore than the right from the race. My right hip flexor and groin are very uncomfortably sore. Other random stuff...all compensation for my bum right hamstring, I'm sure. No serious damage, though, just emphasis that I need to do a lot of cross training work on my down time. My goal is to take 4-5 days off from running in the next two weeks with other days just short and easy. I can do that, as long as I can control my food intake :)

PM - 7.4 miles easy biking while Jake ran. 

AM - No running today. Had to get to work for an early meeting so only got in 15 minutes of the recumbent bike and yoga for 20 minutes.

PM1 - 30 minutes of step aerobics and 15 minutes of weights/hamstring exercises.

PM2 - 6.4 miles of biking, 40 minutes. I was running faster than that on Saturday!

AM - 7 miles cruising around Millcreek with the crew...probably needed 7+ more miles to get out all the Ragnar party-van stories, race recaps, trip reports, etc. Good times! Hamstrings achy by the end, but it felt so good to run this morning.

Let me know if you want to be on my team for the Wedding Bells Relay team. Right now it's me...and maybe Jake if he'll be seen on the same team as me. Not planning to break any records, I'm thinking about wearing one of my bridesmaids dresses for the occasion.

AM - Recumbent bike easy for 30 minutes, then 15 minutes of strengthening/weights. Hamstring still achy.

PM - 15 miles cycling with Amiee and Jake up to Little Mountain from the zoo and back. I was pleasantly surprised to realize the gradient wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I am a total wuss when it comes to downhill though...Amiee put about half a mile on me within 5 minutes :)

AM - Recumbent bike for 30 minutes, then hamstring exercises.

PM - Ran with Devra in the Dimple Dell gully...she's been out with achilles problems, so I'm glad she's better and I have my running buddy again! It was SO HOT, we stopped for water several times. Those trails are not easy! My hamstring tendon hurt after 5 miles.

I'm so excited for the weekend - lots of fun stuff going on. Watching the Olympic Trials, Wedding Bells 5K, hanging out at the pool, Allie's wedding, rollerblading the JRP, Pfeifferhorn hike?, etc. I have been traveling on the weekends for the last 5 weeks so it's a relief to get a weekend at home.

AM - Had so much fun this morning!!! The race was awesome...wrote up a blog here and Jake and Allie's blogs have lots more pictures/links. 

Afterwards did a few laps with Devra and Kevin. Sometimes it's nice to just do whatever I want and not worry about training. Got to talk with Bonnie and Dean, Carina, RAD, Kam, and Kelli for a while too :)

A few of us are hiking up to Pfeifferhorn tomorrow if anyone wants to join (I'm planning to stop at the lake while others go for the summit). Let me know - we'll probably meet around 9:30am or so.