Rhett

I felt terrible yesterday all day, tired and warn down.  After work I stopped by the gym, hoping that a good work out would get me feeling better.  I did some hard upper body lifting working all the major muscles groups and some ab work and still felt bad, so I called it a day and went home.  I feel much better today, but I need to figure out when I'm going to get my workout in.  I am booked most the day at work and am doing splits with the missionaries tonight.  Maybe I can squeak it in during lunch today or maybe after going out with the missionaries tonight.

I finally got around to my workout last night after going out with the missionaries.  The good news was the acr trainer was up and running again.  The bad news was I had no energy.  I was supposed to simulate 3 x 1 mile repeats with 1 min rest.  I was going to do 3 x 8 mins very hard with 1 min rests.  I did the first repeat with the 1 min rest and on the second one I only made it a couple mins and then was no longer able to sustain the hard pace.  I just took it easy for the rest of the work out.  Did about an hour total.  I really need to start running again.  Cross training is good, but it doesn't do the same thing for me as running.

Weight training, heavy lower body, light upper body, followed by recumbant bike for 30 mins.

Upper body weight lifting.  Gotta look good for the beach this weekend.  I'm so excited about running tomorrow morning with Doone.  I hope my foot feels ok.  I'm off to Glendora, a little town outside of LA, in a couple hours.  Everyone have a great 4th!  And good luck on any holiday races you're running.

Running with Doone was one of the highlights of my trip.  It is just great to be out with your sweetie on a cool summer morning and running and talking.  She is training for a 1/2 over Labor Day and had an 8 miler planned.  I let her set the pace.  It was nice and easy averaging around 9:30 minutes, so it was perfect for me not to push the foot.  I figured I'd run as long as I could and then stop and let her go on.  We really had a good time running a chatting around the turnaround point I started feeling a slight discomfort in my foot soon it started to increase, so I stopped and told her to go on.  As I walked the pain increased to a pretty intense level.  How wondered how in the world I ever ran a full marathon on that thing.  She finally came back in the car and rescued me.  For the next few days my pain level was very high, a few time almost bringing me to my knees when I stepped wrong.  I am going to call the doc today and get it looked at again.  I figure he'll just tell me to wear my boot and rest it longer, but I better let him look at it.  It doesn't look like I'll be doing TOU.  What a disappointment.