Slow & Steady Wins the Race :-)

A midnight run (DC time) after a hectic travel day, getting here almost late, presenting the poster, and a huge late dinner.  Every second of the 23 minutes and 45 seconds it took for me to run these 2 miles on the treadmill (you read that time right!) was torture.  My quads still majorly majorly MAJORLY hate me and going down stairs is impossible.  This is definitely in the top 3 sorest I've ever been of all time.  Up there with my 2003 half marathon I didn't train at all for (and I wasn't a runner then!) and my one sole full marathon.  HORRIBLE.  Please let me feel better tomorrow?

Day 1 of attempting to train for my first triathlon (a sprint).  850 yards of swimming in the hotel pool (which is actually nice and 25 yards long but is kind of murky and doesn't have lanes or lines on the bottom so I go all over the place, which I guess simulates open-water running?). 

Swimming is hard.  Did the first 10 laps (500 yd) without stopping in about 11 minutes.  Total swimming time of 18:36.  Have a ways to go on this.

So tired from getting up at 6:30 (3:30 pacific time!) after not being able to fall asleep until after 1am.  But its so nice and hot and humid here! 

Hopefully I'll get some other sort of workout in later, we'll see how it goes.  In other, soreness news, I have progressed to being able to take the stairs regularly, versus my one-step-at-a-time method of the past 2 days.  So that is progress!

Early morning run on the beautiful trail by the hotel on the Potomac. I wish I had my bike!  My legs still feel like lead but the run has progressed to constant discomfort from constant torturous agony, so that's definitely progress!

Got back and swam 12 laps (without stopping!) for 600 yards in 13:19.  Garmin is having battery issues again as it died after 15 mins even though I just charged it, but total was around 38 minutes. I ran sloow so it might be less than 3.8.

Can't wait to sleep in my own bed tonight and be back on Pacific time, I am exhausted!

I'm back home!  Yay.  4 loops around the neighborhood with Cooper, light rain the whole time.  My legs feel more back to normal today - still feeling very heavy and sluggish, but no real pain, besides my knee hurting.  Not the IT band pain though, this feels like runner's knee or something related to the quad pain and the downhill running.  Hopefully it will go away.  Forgot to change it back to automatic split so no splits.

TT: 60:00   AP: 9:45

Its our 4 year anniversary and my husband is a saint so I think we're headed to see Eclipse tonight.  :-)  The 4-year present is fruit/flowers so he also got me some more flowers to round out my raised bed I built last week. 

I was supposed to do a long run today... whoops.  Mix-up with the timing of golfing so ended up going to breakfast with friends (Biscuits - yum!) and then golfed 13 holes with J & J's dad.  Walked it without a bag, played bad.  I'm having golfing issues lately.  

Later went miniature golfing with Jordan and Rachael, I lost that too!