I can do it!

Ironman training begins in earnest today!  I'm also going to try to do 90 days of P90X.  So I started out the morning with Chest and Back, followed by ab-ripperX.  Then I went to the pool.  UGH!!!  I arrived at the pool without my favorite googles, swim cap, or ear plugs. Then they had switched the lanes to meters instead of yards. I got really dizzy everytime I stopped swimming, so it was a short swim. But I had some coaching, so it was good.  I'll have some new things to practice this week.  I quit at 40 lengths, which means I'll have to squeeze in an extra workout sometime this week.  I swam 1000 meters...how many yards is that?!?  :D

ben and I woke up this morning with the crazy idea of doing P90X Plyometrics.  What were we thinking?!?  Anyway, we made it through the first 30 minutes or so, then decided we'd better not kill ourselves off, so we went for a one-mile walk around the block.  Right after we arrived back home, it started dumping rain - yay!

Later this morning, the clouds parted for a minute, so we decided to pull out our mountain bikes and give it a go.  I was scheduled to do 25 miles, but the wind and the fact that I forgot to eat cut our ride short.  I was shaking like a leaf when I got off the bike, but I needed to get a run in, so I ran the mile to Subway and met Ben there for sandwiches....food has never tasted so good!!!  We spent 1:03:46 on the bike, and the run was nice and slow, at 9:47.  Actually, my legs felt pretty good, and I think I would have been able to do the full 30 minute run if I hadn't been in hypoglycemic shock.  Next time...  :D

This evening, we took the whole family to the pool and Ben and I swam some laps.  I had planned to do 1500 meters, but then I realized that if I did 4 more lengths, I could say I did a mile.  When I got to 64 lengths, I figured I might as well finish to 2000 meters...so I did.  This was the only workout today where I actually did MORE than I had planned to do instead of LESS - haha!

We started the morning with P90X Shoulders and Arms, followed by ab-ripperX.   This evening was supposed to be a lake day, but the weather didn't cooperate with us, so Ben and I went to the Rec Center for a multi-brick workout.  We did 5 minutes of hard spinning, followed by a 5 minute accelleration run, 5 minute bike, 5 minute run, 10 minute bike, 10 minute run, 10 minute bike, 10 minute run, then an additional 30 minutes on the bike.  So altogether, I did 30 minutes of treadmill running, logging a total of 3.5 miles, and 60 minutes on the bike, for a total of 18 miles.  It was in interesting and fun workout...I think we'll be doing more of that one!  :D

This morning was P90X Legs and Back. Later this morning, I forced myself to go for a bike ride...I had to return some items to the store, so I made a workout of it.  I took out my mountain bike, since the roads are still yucky from the storms, and logged 18 miles in 1:13:00.  :D

Today I got to sleep in - yay!  Later this morning, I joined some friends at the rec center for an hour of Zumba, followed by a half hour of yoga.  Then we all went to the buffet to refuel!  :D

This evening I was able to make it to the pool to finish my 2000 more yards of swimming that I needed to meet my goals for the week.  They still had the big pool roped off into meters, but the high school teams were using all the lanes, so I had to swim in the makeshift lanes they created in the kiddie pool.  The water was too warm, but I survived.  :)

This morning I joined the Tri Club for a ride towards Leeds, but unfortunately crazy circumstances and my own bike maintenance ignorance caused me to have to return home, and I missed their start by 3 minutes.  Luckily, my friends Joel and Chase waited for me, so we had a fantastic ride together, out to Leeds and back home.  I logged 49 miles in 3:06:09.  That doesn't count the stops I took to wait for the boys at the tops of the big hills...they nicknamed me "power legs."  :)

I had to do an easy 50 minute run immediately off the bike, so as soon as I got home, I switched shoes and hit the road.  I'm not accustomed to running mid-day on tired legs, so it was a hard "easy" run for me.  At mile 4 I felt like a headache was coming on, but I managed to finish the run without incident.  It was a slow run - it took me 48:21.  I decided that was close enough to 50 minutes, so I called it a day.

Later this evening, Ben wanted to do our P90X workout for the day - KempoX.  I made it about 15 minutes into the routine before I decided it was totally not worth risking injury, and I was way too tired to do it without hurting myself, so I called it quits.  I feel pretty good about that choice.  :D