April 14 - 20

Another week already? jeez...

Monday

A brief swimming session, followed by weights (endurance). We've moved up to 30 reps now. While swimming was short, I think Charlie got something out of it. He's been having trouble breathing, and I didn't know what to tell him, so I asked the swim coach to help him out. I think that was useful.

Tuesday

crappy run, 3-4 miles. also biked around some, maybe that counts for something.

Wednesday

30 min swim, weights (strength)

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April 7 -13

Monday

30 min swim. did weights (endurance) either this day or tuesday

Tuesday

30 min swim

Wednesday

rest.

Thursday

30 min run, 30 min swim, 1 hr weights (strength). We moved up on weight for this workout. Tired! Also made sweet potato biscuits, which were delicious.

Friday

I don't really remember what happened today. I remember eating chinese takeout for dinner, which is a good indication of laziness.

Saturday

30 min tempo to 9:15, then about half an hour hitting up the various machines in the weight room. After doing all those free weights, it sometimes feels nice to just concentrate on the big strong muscles.

Sunday

Felt bleh, so I didn't do anything today. bike is done now, which is great because that means no more walking to the gym. Disposed of a respectable amount of PBR.

March 31 - April 6

Monday

30 min. swim.

Tuesday

8x100 on the track, followed by weights (strength). Tired.

Wednesday

Was going to do some sort of cardio, but I screwed up my legs yesterday. The top sides of my thighs ( Rectus femoris according to wikipedia) which hurt mildly yesterday, were full of knots and just generally in terrible shape. Heat, massage, rest...

Thursday

30 min swim and weights (endurance). Legs seem okay, though still healing. Probably be fine to go on a run tomorrow.

Friday

laziness. no workout.

Saturday

I ran for about an hour and Charlie did sprints. Then we did a free weights workout (strength). Both of us are feeling pretty good, so I think we'll start moving up on weight and reps on the strength and endurance days, respectively.

It's been a month since the marathon, and I'm lamenting my loss of running skill/strength/endurance/etc. I think a better plan than these long, meandering hour long runs is to do shorter, more controlled runs where I concentrate on running well.

Sunday

3 mile run. Felt pretty good.

Spring Break (March 24-30)

In TX Sunday through Friday.

Monday

At my parents' house. Went for an easy jog around the neighborhood, maybe 30-45 min? Flat, windy, sunny... plenty of space. I think Texans generally don't like other states because they feel claustrophobic.

In german club in high school, some friends and I made a video for a German Club competition. I looked for the tape when I was home, but couldn't find it. However, I did find the original video camera footage so I put that on my computer. I've started to re-edit it and I plan to put it on youtube eventually.

Also saw my uncle for the first time in a while (wanderlust on his part), which was very cool.

Tuesday

Went to Bally's with my dad and had a great workout! I finally felt on top of things again, I guess I'm over the whole finals week/jetlag stuff (assuming I believe in jetlag). Did a tempo workout on the treadmill and then random free weights for another half an hour.

Went to Babe's for dinner--the Carrollton location. It was about the same as Roanoke, except the waitresses were way too perky and not as fun, and the biscuits were lame. Not that I'm complaining, though--the chicken fried steak hit the spot like always.

Wednesday

I took this day off ate all of my little sister's Easter candy.

Thursday

Crappy run. I went around noon, and it was hot hot hot and super windy. I didn't believe that the wind could have a significant effect, but I was wrong... ended up taking a detour through some neighborhood streets to try to avoid the south wind. Allergies killing me, like the rest of the week. Oh well.

Friday

Flew home, then went to the gym. 20 min on bike to warm up, then free weights for about 45 min to an hour. Had BBQ for lunch on the way to the airport. The place was called Bone Daddy's (http://www.bonedaddys.com/) and was basically a Hooter's except with good food. I think I was the only female there, other than the waitresses. Not that that kind of ratio is unusual for me....

Saturday

Easy jog down to lacy and back, about 5 mi. DDR later in the day.

Sunday

About 30 min of swimming, then weights (endurance).

Finished the german club video. Let me know if you'd like to see it!

Transition Week 2 (March 10-16)

Monday

Ran around aimlessly for about 30 min. Legs were fine, but apparently I ran too soon after eating dinner because I was plagued by digestive issues. lame.

UPDATE: I have the best friends ever.

Tuesday

Ran down to the gym, then 10 min on row machine for warm up. Weights (strength). Felt good; finished almost all of it (a few reps on curls/shoulder). Legs feel great! I think I'll try a longer run this weekend (7-9 or so) just to see how they're doing endurance-wise.

Wednesday

The idea was to go play some DDR after my library shift, but there were people there already and we didn't want to have to take turns. So we walked to the gym and played some racquetball. Charlie seems to have aggravated his lower back, which he may have strained during weights yesterday? It's not good.. came home and iced, then laid down. Pain bending over, getting up from sitting position, etc.

For my part, I was tired and grouchy most of the day. Going to sleep in somewhat and then go back to the dentist tomorrow.

Thursday

Dentist sucked. Charlton's definitely not in good shape. On KB's advice, went to the trainer, who gave some advice and showed him some stretches. Busy, no workout.

Friday

Busy, no workout. Muscle relaxants for Charlie's back; able to move around reasonably well with support belt but still in some pain.

Saturday

My plan for today was to get out early and go down to Arroyo park, maybe a 7-9 mile run. This was a complete failure... about a mile into it I felt terrible, legs were really tight and I couldn't seem to loosen them up. I kept going for about another half a mile, then gave up and jogged/walked home. This type of thing tends to happen when I'm busy and stressed out, and while I got a lot of sleep last night (10+ hrs), I hardly got any last week. So while this was disappointing I have to accept the fact that my workouts are just going to suck during finals week and I can't do anything even remotely ambitious. I'm just going to try to fit in some short runs here and there so I can sleep at night and I'm not too grouchy.

Sunday

Went to the gym and did 45 min on the bike and about 25 min in the weight room afterwards. Feeling much better than yesterday, though it still feels like my legs have... I dunno, all this bad "humor" in them.. you know, in the medieval sense of the word. I think the bike ride help relieve some of this--a bloodletting of sorts. I know this is a weird analogy but that's what came to mind when I was on the bike. Charlie was feeling up to going to the gym and almost came with me (to do the bike, not weights), but thought he should probably wait one more day to be safe. Probably a good idea.

Transition Week 1

Monday

Rest day. Fairly sore, but not too bad. Only problem area is lower left leg (compensating for right hip during the run?) which has a few knots. Spend about half an hour massaging/stretching. Drinking tons of water.

Tuesday

Rest day. Feeling pretty good, actually. Sore getting out of bed, but after that I'm fine. More massage in the evening.

Wednesday

Went to the gym to get our 5 rep max numbers, which are on the right under "Weight Training". Charlie seems to be coming down with a cold. =(

Thursday

Crazy weights (strength). Finished everything but the squats and lunges--quads started to cramp up (!) I'm going to blame this on energy-depleted muscles (dehydrated and didn't eat anything all day except some pasta right before) rather than marathon fatigue. Going to be careful though... no reason to get injured.

By the way, dentist + hangover = arrrrrghghhh

Friday

Played a little DDR, but otherwise just chilled out today. Was ridiculously tired and sore, so I decided to take a break.

Saturday

Endurance day at the gym. After biking down there, I had a quick, easy jog down to lacy park and back. Legs definitely still work, though obviously not 100%. Knot in right AT. Endurance weights weren't that bad, though I feel funny doing ballet squats.

Sunday

Rest day. Groggy. Made bread.