Stroller pushin in Texas

1 hour spinning class

1 mile run, weights, another 1 mile run.

Leg is feeling better today, it's been 5 weeks.  I bought a bike, hopefully it comes today. 

Another spinning class.  Got my heart rate up to about 92%.  I love spinning classes. 

45 minutes of upper body strengthening. 

Spin class for an hour.  My new bike is coming today!  

spinning class, sweat puddles were on the floor.  mmmm delicious.

1 hour in the weight room

tonight I will be doing either another spin class or swim.  Maybe both?  I am crazy.

3 miles slow on the TM.

45 minutes of weights.  I suppose to go to spin class, but I couldn't put myself through that again today.  Went home and ran 3.4 miles around the block.  

Leg is feeling tight.  I can feel that there is still a snag feeling in the femur.  I had to run, I am now approaching 6 weeks with this injury. 

Went on a 6 mile hike....hmmm I am wiped out!

Went to the gym for a Zumba class!!!  Of my gosh, I just found a new love.  I am seriously thinking about becoming certified.  I didn't know you could shake your buns and get a great workout too!  So so so FUN!!!

I woke up sooooo sore!  That is okay, because I usually never get sore.  

I hour spinning class, speed intervals.  1 hour weights.  

9 miles this week!  Yippee!  I hope that I will be at in even more next week.  I'm going to give the injury the time it needs.  

30 minutes elliptical

10 minutes stairs

10 minutes bike

1 mile run

I went on a nice evening run.  It has been six weeks, and there still is pain.  I need to slow down my runs and not put mileage on very quickly.  This is going to be a process.  One plus about the run is that the big hill I ran up has never been so easy.  It was still hard, but I kept a nice consistent speed the whole way up.  I think that is due to spin workouts! 

This morning at the gym I did a "pyramid" spin workout.  (Speed intervals).  Then I did 45 minutes of upper body weights.  

Woke up with pain.  I feel like I am back at second base with this healing process, soooo FRUSTRATING!  I did not look at the time it took me last night to run my miles, but I think it was WAY too fast.  I felt so free and I wanted to run and run.  I over did myself :(  If I am not feeling it in two weeks, pretty sure my fall marathon will be off.  I am really sad, but that gives me more reason to train for a TRI.  I hope I can at least run 6 miles in 2 months relatively normal.  

Today I went to the gym lifted upper body for 45 minutes.

Spinning class:  Speed intervals again.  

20 minutes core strenghtening.

I will return later to the gym for more... (I have to compinsate for the running I don't do).  I returned for a 1 mile swim in the evening. 

NEW BIKE NEW BIKE NEW BIKE!!!!  I love it!  

spinning class 1 hour

1 hour on weights

2nd spinning class 1 hour

Leg is feeling better, but I am still not going to run on it.

5 am (really early) 1 hour spin class.  Really hard effort, I think the teacher wanted to show off!  I would too if I could spin that fast.  

1 hour pump class.  The teacher drove me crazy. 

More than a 1 mile swim in the evening.  I worked on breath.  I almost died.  No, not really. 

Spin class.  1 hour weights. 

Small bike ride.  

Saturday!!!  I have had so much fun reading everyone's blogs about the UVM.  Sounds like everyone did a fantastic job, congrats!

Today I did a spin class, followed by a fourty minute bike ride.  Oh my heavens, it is sooooo fun!!!  Going down hills is a little frightening, but so terrific!  I love passing tons of runners! 

I went to NUTTY PUTTY caves today with some friends.  Oh goodness, I look like a war-victim.  So many bruises and scrapes.  Way cool place though, can't wait to go back! 

Spinning class bright and early.  Saw Jeff L from the blog there!  

1 hour of strengthening.  I did 200 push-ups today!!!  4 sets of 25, and 10 sets of 10.  Pretty shakey by the end of the sets, my form was falling apart too.  At least I did them right?

9 mile bike ride.  Everyday I get more used to the bike. Lovin' it!

Evening bike ride.  About 11-12 miles

3 slow TM miles

Spinning class

3 slow TM miles

Pain was not there today, a little tight.  I think I will start easing back in with TM workouts. 

Evening tricep workout.  30 minutes of Zumba.  Leg pain was present :(

1 mile freestyle swim.

1 hour in the weight room.  

1 hour evening spin class

Spin class at 5 am.  That man didn't kick my trash as bad as last week.  But he did get on the floor half way through the class and do a 2 minutes series of push-ups.  Yeah, maybe Ill do that next week.

Followed by more than a mile swim. (Freestyle)

No spinning class teacher at the gym this morning!  I decided that I would do my own workout.  There were other ladies wondering what was going on, so I plugged my Ipod in, and we started pedaling away.  They all dropped out within 45 minutes.  I kept pedaling for another 45.  One hour and thirty minutes on the bike.

1 hour of chest and core strengthening. 

Bike ride up suncrest :).  Lovely morning.  

1 mile evening swim 34 min. :)

Spinning class: 1 hour, worked on hill efforts. 

6 miles on the TM.  No pain HOORAY!  I will wait for tonight, that is when the pain usually sets in. I was so happy to get those miles in today.  Xtraining is paying off.  I felt really good the whole 6 miles, and that was after sustaining my heart rate in the 170's in spinning.  

I got a new job today!!  I won't have to be teaching in Vernal anymore! 

This morning I did 1 hour strength training.  Shoulders were the area of focus.  I love how you focus on one area of the body to work and you think you will be so sore the next day, but you never are.  I don't know if that is a good or bad thing.

Arts conference all day.

2 hour bike ride.  Race up to Suncrest!  (I went faster than I did on Saturday).  Then I rode for another hour. 

TM 6 miles.  No pain, and I did not take one break.  50 minutes total.  I was proud.  

ARTS conference.  Dancing for 3 hours. Dancing makes me so tired.  I could feel the pain in my leg coming back after all of the jumping we were doing in the dance class.

1 mile swim, really slow. 

Tired today.  Hit up Skinny Danny's spinning class.  I think he was tired too, he didn't seem his usual "chipper" self.  Therefore, the class was at my level.

1 hour of strength training for the chest.  

I'm running a 5k on Saturday! (This might kill me). 

Rode the bike up Suncrest and came down the Draper side.  The wind was blowing me over on the way down and I got really scared.   I rode around the Point of the Mountain on the way back.  I am now freezing and covered in mud.  

Test run 3.5 at a 7:30 pace.  Hopefully I can pull 7's tomorrow.  

Yay for the 5k to be over and done with!  My quads are really tired for some reason.  Now that the cardiac arrest is over, I can try to relax for the rest of the day.  

It was a good race, I actually stopped and walked :).  My quads were not in running gear.  I don't know if it was because I haven't really run for 8 weeks, or if it was because of the mountain I climbed on my bike yesterday.

5k's are really challenging for me.  I still have the goal to do a 5k 20 mintues, or under.  I am planning to do a few more this summer because they send me into such a running shock.  Next time I will try to train for it.  Leg pain was at about a 1, but as the day goes on, I can feel the pain more.  

6 miles in the neighborhood at an 8:21 pace.

45 minutes of weights.  

Very tired today.

Evening yoga class.