All it takes is all you've got

My quads are still thrashed from Saturday's mountain climb, so I cross trained on the elliptical for 30 minutes and lifted weights.  Gotta love that first hike/climb of the season when your quads get so sore that you cant even do stairs without putting 80% of your weight on the railing.  Reminds me of the first track workout of the season in college when my calves got so tight I could barely walk.  Speaking of track, I had a bunch of crazy dreams last night.  In one of them I was competing at some world class event in the 100 M dash but had forgotten how to start in starting blocks so everything felt really awkward.  As the gun went off it was as if I was in slow-motion and I had no fast-twitch muscles at all.  All the other black sprinters with huge strong hamstrings and gluts were 30 meters in front of me at the finish line. 

Happy Birthday to my little 3, now 4 yo!  For her birthday she got a Radio Flyer red wagon with a one year family membership to the Zoo attached.  We went to the Zoo today and enjoyed seeing the animals.  The lions were growling at each other.  It was exciting.

I didn't run today because my quads were still super sore.  But I'm hoping all the walking around at the zoo loosened 'em up a little. I also pulled all three kids in my bike trailer/toddler seat to the park by my son's school to play and drop Abe off at school.  Then pulled the girls back up the hill.  The weather was gorgeous today!  High 60s!  

5 miles around Countryside.  Quads starting to loosen up a bit, but downhills are still very painful.  Hip is okay, but not 100% yet.  We got new shingles on our roof today.  Lots of pounding and noise in the house, so I tried to stay out of the house most of the day.

Had no desire at all to work out today.  So I didn't. 

Snow.  Went to the gym and did 30 minutes pretty hard on the elliptical and ran 4 miles.  Then I did some core work, lifted weights and took a shower.  2 hours later....finally done.

Hip is feeling quite good now!  This is the first day all week I've actually felt motivated to work out.  I figured since I'm mentally dragging and my hip still isn't recovered fully anyway, it wouldn't hurt to just take an easy week.  I'm hoping to get my fire back soon and simultaneously feel 100% in my hip so I can get out there and get into great shape again.  Right now I'm still feeling like an injured, out of shape athlete.