I can do it!

I woke up this morning with a very sore foot.  But I went to spin class anyway, and Ben and Craig suggested that maybe I should NOT run until I knew what was wrong with it, so after doing 20.3 miles in an hour on the spin bike, I did 15 minutes of ab work and then tried out the elliptical for 11 minutes (1 mile).  The elliptical was probably a bad idea, because when I arrived home I realized my foot was all swollen and I had to hobble around the rest of the day.  I managed to make it through an hour of yoga this evening anyway.  :D

It was supposed to be hills this morning, but since I am not supposed to run, I did a quad/hamstring workout instead with weights.  Later on, I went to the pool and did a 3000 yard workout in about 61 minutes.

I'm feeling a little bit like a slacker because I can't run.  But today I had an xray of my foot taken, to rule out the possibility of a break.  The doc thinks its probably just a good case of tendonitis, possibly brought on by the pine cone incident of a month ago.  He thought it might heal up in a couple of weeks, if I'm careful and rest it.  I plan to try water-running until then.  All I did today was 18 miles on a spin bike in 50:34.

I went to the pool and did a 4000 yard swim workout for my long-swim day today.  It took me about 83 minutes to finish the intervals.  Later on, I went back and did 45 minutes of water-running, and then followed it up with an hour of yoga.

I only needed 1000 yards of swimming to reach my goal for the week, so when we got up early to go to the pool, I started with 40 minutes of water-running, then followed it up with the 1000 yard swim in about 19 minutes.  I had planned to cycle today, but the day got away from me and I never got to it.

Today we cycled from Sand Hollow Reservoir through Ivins and the Veyo Loop...it was basically the first 68 miles of the Ironman Course.  I had decided that with my injury, I should just take it really easy to try not to distress my tendons, so that's what I did.  I felt a little bit frustrated when on the first big hill, everybody else got ahead of me so quickly.  I really never saw anyone again for the rest of the ride.  But I tried to put it from my mind, and just focus on slow and steady.  I was really surprised to discover that after riding the 68 miles at my "easy" pace, I was still able to average a 15 mph pace!  I may not be able to keep up with the experienced riders, but 15 mph is good enough to easily make the IM cut-offs!  Today's ride really helped boost my confidence for Ironman.  We were supposed to run 13 miles of the course after the ride, but since I can't run, I rode straight to the pool and did an hour of water-running.  I had planned to do 2 hours, but when I was already in the water I realized that I had forgotten my fuel for the run.  I ate what I had on hand - an extra zone bar - then called it a day.  I am not sure if the water-running is going to give me the same benefit as actual running does for a transition run...it felt WAY too easy without the impact.  I sure hope this foot heals soon.