Lulu's Challenge... rise from the ashes

Ran early am. Can I tell you how much better my running feels now that I had my SI injected??!!

SI injection on right side.

Pliometrics and core work in pm:

2 X 50m exaggerated skipping with medicine ball

2 X 50m bounding with medicine ball

2 X 50m lunges with medicine ball

3 X 20 squats with medicine ball

3 X 20 crunches with medicine ball

3 X 20 reverse crunches with medicine ball

3 X 30 reverse obliques with medicine ball (upper body steady against floor; legs swinging from side to side with medicine ball between knees)

3 X 40 twists with medicine ball holding core tight

3 X 10 pushups

3 planks

3 X 20 triceps with medicine ball

200m run in indoor track with Nike Frees (plan to work up barefoot - got to start somewhere) 

All done while Bubbles was at gymnastics. I love having access to the indoor track and a place to do all this stuff that is not in the sun. It is actually air conditioned but I get pretty sweaty. Only draw back is I did less bounding today because two moms were talking to me while I was resting and I didn't want to be rude. It is just as well considering the SI injection this morning and the addition of exercises and the addition of the medicine ball during the skipping and bounding. My legs felt pretty trashed aftern the lunges and the swats. 

Six miles. After yesterdays workout and SI procedure, it felt surprising good. First five miles I felt like I was gliding. Last mile, I was "driving." Got tired the last 200m so I judged it right today. Yea!

Life is getting better. Got asked to write two more World BooK Encyclopedia articles! This might be a good opportunity for me to switch careers. Planning to do a bang-up job and see how I can leverage these articles into another career -- science books for kids.

I will talk with my brother. He wrote a children's book a number of years ago. It is awesome, but self published.

Swam 3000m. 500m warm up with drills. 3X500m swim with 1min rest in between. 1x500 pull with paddles and bouy. 3x100 on 2:00. 200 cool down.

Five miles easy

This one was weird. I wasn't sure I was going to run all 8 as planned. Went out with no watch and paid no attention to my pace. I just ran. I told myself, I would figure out how far I would go at mile 5 and then again at 7. I had no problem with 8. I felt good the whole time. When I was done, I ran it about 1 min per mile faster than I thought I was going. This was even faster than most of my mid-week runs. Bizarre. I did wear the SI belt which I don't do for short runs.

SBD-1 Day 1