R Week 3 Days 4,5,6

Well, my workouts took a detour to Saint George, Utah last week!  Instead of the scheduled daily sessions, I went down and mountain biked until I couldn't mountain bike anymore!  What a blast!  We spent Thursday after school driving down and reached St. George at about midnight.  Friday morning we were up and out for breakfast early before heading over to Hurricane and ultimately driving up to Gooseberry Mesa for one FULL day of riding!  The route was quite technical and I was challenged BIG TIME the whole day.  Needless to say, I wrecked more often than I would like to have wrecked!  No injuries, so I'll call it a success.  Ok, the index finger on my right hand got jammed.  No biggie! 

Saturday was really, really cold!  We biked all day in 40 degree weather.  It even snowed on us!  This ride was just to the west of I-15, close to Hurricane.  It was a trail called "Guacamole."  Not nearly as technical, but a lot faster!  I had an absolute blast on this trail.  At sundown we decided that we had better hit the road so that we could get home before midnight.

All in all, I had a wonderful time!  I missed my wife and kids though.  I find it hard to leave them for any period of time. 

Tough Spin Class

Yow!  Spin class today was HARD!!  Our instructor's favorite phrase was, "Take it to a 9! A 9!"  She decided to do long 5-minute intervals with a 2-minute "break".  Really, the break was taking it back to a 6 or 7.  We started with a seated climb for 5 minutes at a 9, had a 2-minute break, then did it again.  The same pattern repeated with a standing climb, then sprints.  Oh, man, those sprints hurt bad!  I've never sweat so much in my life!  My shirt was almost completely soaked.  During the sprints I kept chanting to myself 1:08! 1:08!

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Took it easy on my run this morning....still feeling shaky and out of sorts.  Ran 4 miles in 40 minutes.  Scheduled the cardiologist for Friday at 2:30.

Woman of Steel Goal

I did some analysis the other day on the Woman of Steel for what it would take to place better next year.  Figured I'd put up the numbers here so I don't lose it on my little scrap of paper.  :)

This is how I did in my age group last year (out of 140 participants):
Final - 29th - 1:20:44
Swim - 15th - 6:24
T1 - 61st - 3:08
Bike - 59th - 45:43
T2 - 55th - 2:05
Run - 21st - 23:21

Fastest person in each category:
Final - 1:08
Swim - 4:59
T1 - 1:39
Bike - 37:10
T2 - 1:11
Run - 19:49

Lady who won:
Final - 1:08:59
Swim - 6:18
T1 - 1:39
Bike - 38:38
T2 - 1:42
Run - 20:41

I've got some major work to do on the bike (which I'm confident all these spin classes will help) and transitions!  Now that I have some awesome tri outfits so I don't have to change clothes and I can clip my pedals on my bike, I'm planning on being lightning fast!  Let's see, to get a 1:10, I've gotta drop 6 minutes on the bike to get into the 30s, shave 3 minutes from transitions, shave a minute off the swim, huh, that gets me there without doing better on the run and I know I'm gonna shave 2 minutes off that.  Then I'll be at 1:08!

Camilla and Camilla at Woman of Steel last year!  Woot! Woot!

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Spin class this morning!  In honor of election day, the instructor let us vote on different parts of the workout.  We did 5-minute sets of different things.  My favorite set was the speed ladder.  Started at 80rpm, then upped the rpms by 5 every 20 seconds until we got to 100 which we held for 45, then went back down to 80.  We did three sets.  It was tough!  But felt really good.

Tuesdays are exhausting for me, though.  I get up at 4:30, to the gym by 5, workout til 6:15, then home, shower, feed kids before 7:45 when my piano student comes, teach til 8:15, kids off to school at 8:20, leave for work 8:30, off work at 5, home 5:30, fix dinner, clean up dinner, homework 7, kids to bed 8, and then I had to run!  Was not feeling good about it, but knew I should put in the workout so I grudgingly got dressed and went out to run.  However, 14 minutes in, my heart misfired again.  Had to sit down to let it calm and then walked home.  Felt shaky and out of sorts the rest of the night.  So frustrated!!  I'm so sick of it! Calling the cardiologist today. :(

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Started Monday morning with a great 5.5 mile run with my running buddy.  She is getting to be a really good friend and I look forward to our runs together.

 Monday night we took the kids to the pool so I could do my swim workout.  Not a great idea.....ended up being really frustrated.  The pool only has one lane open for lap swim during leisure hours (and it's a huge pool!).  There were 8 people in the lane when I arrived and if it hadn't been for Travis pushing me, I would not have joined them.  I went over and jumped in and started to attempt to swim.  The first 500 was hard to get anywhere because I was swimming with people who had their heads out of the water and were dog paddling.  Second and third 500 were better because it dwindled down to only 4 of us.  I still had to pass in the middle but I worked through it.  I started suffering from charlie horses in my foot and calf.  That wasn't very fun.  The last 500 was a joke.  These two girls got in and pretended to swim laps.  They would swim three strokes, then stop in the lane and do a deep-water bob, swim in the middle of the lane, not stop at the wall to let me pass, etc.  I was really frustrated!  Almost cut the workout short, but just decided to breast stroke and let it be.  Grrrr......

R- week 3 day 2

Got the hour on the bike and the half hour run done...kinda. My body is exhausted.  Should I be counting the almost two hours of wrestling I did as well?  Haha! Going to bed now.  Good night!