3 Capital F's

Feeling F_ing Fantastic. What a difference a day makes.
Group swim today - ended up at 3000 yds, but the best thing was one of the drills, at the very end of the main set was 6x50s kick on 1:30 and I passed people in my lane even after being 3rd in the lane to start - got to attribute that to stronger legs as a result of all these circuits. Overall the swim felt great, I felt super strong today.

Day 5 on Paleo and things are starting to gel.

Tabata on tap for later today - already know my time - ☺

Spring can't come soon enough

On tap for today was a 30k bike - the good news is I had a good night sleep, but w/out getting too personal, I have some hormone issues that I choose not to treat w/meds, so about every 3rd month, I get a bad case of vertigo and today that got in my way on my bike. (Guys have it so much easier!) I ended up finishing the bike at 15mph and my true goal for today was to try and maintain a 90 cadence, but came in short at 86.

I have also hit the 'I can't get enough food' - day 4 of Paleo - my stomach feels completely empty and I keep eating.

Backsquats on tap for much later tonight. - 85/85/95, then tried 115, could not do one, 95/95 - either I need to get the gym next time for these or buy a few more 10 and 5lb plates for my barbell. I had nothing to try an inbetween 85 and 115.

First Pass on a WOD

Not sure what is going on, but had another bad night - could be a result of the switch in eating, could be 'womens hormone crap' (yes, creeping up on that magic age) or a combo - but feel like I am in a detox, stomach hurts, sweaty, just not my usual self. Have a 4x800m run, 100% effort, 4 minutes rest in between, but think I will listen to my body and take a pass. Also need to get to my son's last home hockey game at 5. I will just have to get over the guilty feeling.

And after reading Christina's blog, I totally f_up'd that torture bike ride last night. I guess the rest was supposed to be the amt of time in distance, i.e. 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, not total time it took me to ride the mileage - I knew something was not quite right. I will just laugh that one off.

Eating, AMRAP and Bike

First let me start by saying I started eating like a caveman yesterday (Paleo)- long story short, I made a recipe from one of the books, chicken veggie soup - did not think about possible affects of cabbage to ones system - I found that out at 1:00 am last night. Otherwise, day 2 and so far so good. I have been 'zoning' for just over a year and I must say it was nice to eat a banana and carrots without worrying about using up so many carb blocks for so little quantity.

WOD#1 - AMRAP in 20 minutes: 5 burpees, 10 pushups, 500m row - I was 10 meters shy of completing 6 rounds. HR got up to 165, avg 153. I must say I really liked this one.

WOD#2 - Bike 1 mile, rest mile time, 2 miles, rest mile time, up to 5 and back. I must say this was the worst task thus far. Unless the goal was to make you feel totally beat up and deteriorate before your very eyes, then I totally rocked the workout. I was all over the place with gears, big ring, little ring back and forth. I also cut the rest times after mile 5 - this was long process total time 2:54 and that was w/reduced rests towards the end. Several times I wanted to quit - now I am thinking I probably did it wrong, but it is done, can't go back.
Times:
1 mile 3:30 17.4 mph 93 cadence
2 miles 7:00 17.4 90
3 miles 11:05 16.1 87
4 miles 15:47 15.2 84 (starting to see the rapid decline)
5 miles 20:10 14.9 85
4 miles 16:07 14.9 85
3 miles 12:16 14.7 85
2 miles 8:00 14.8 86
1 mile 3:54 15.5 86

yuck

FRAN & Swim

2 WOD: 1st up was FRAN (21, 15, 9) thrusters, pullups. I did this circuit last on January 30th in a time of 5:03, but I used 25#, 10#, 25# for the 3 thruster sets. Today I did all the thrusters with a 45# barbell. Total time today was 6:20, which includes stair time to get from basement to pullup bar - given the increased in poundage, I am happy with that improvement and even my legs were shaking a bit.

2nd: 1000yd swim TT - time was 19:48 and I think I swam 50yds over - my last 1000 swim was on January 13th and I did it in 19:11 and I felt better and stronger today, hmmm. If there is anything I am consistent in, it is the swim - the endurance felt good today.

Anything to avoid the treadmill - Run and pushups on tap

For the past 3 days I have been struggling over the fact that today had a 5 mile run on tap. I haven't run this distance since late May 2009. So when today's weather came in, I spent all day at work stressing over the fact that I would had to put myself thru the treadmill torture for this run (I have never run 5 miles on a treadmill). At 3:15 pm I told myself I had to give outside a try and like Ariel, I took on the nasty weather and did the 5 miles outside. My mind was working the entire run - from thinking about my running lesson and trying to not try and run on my heels, to looking down to avoid the very slippery slush and big puddles and remembering to look ahead to make sure the cars saw me. Again, like Ariel, not so thrilled with the time, which came in at 47:16, it definitely was not a TT - I would have wiped out on the slippery streets. But the run served a purpose, I did the distance, the foot did not feel all that bad, and I definitely will be doing my running drills to get off of my heavy heel running. It will take time.

100 Pushups, even on your knees is hard- did 20 regular and then down to the knees - time was 3:54

Circuit and Swim and REST day tomorrow - yippeeeee

Circuit today was: 50 step ups, 20 box jumps, 30 situps, 20 pushups, 10 burpees, 2x thru. Total time 11:21. I used a higher step for the steps - 20 inches vs. 14. Knees have been a bit sore, and left knee on step ups felt a bit off - I did my first set of box jumps on my 14" box, but second time thru, stayed on the higher step and did an additional 20 step ups in lieu of the box jumps. If your not totally focused, I find box jumps to be extremely hard and often times end up just staring at the step. I also had a goal to do all my pushups, even w/burpees as a 'real' push ups and not knee pushups, which I managed to do.

Group swim today - 2600 yds.

Running lesson later in the day - learned alot and there is alot for me to absorb. Baby steps.

Thank goodness for a rest day - haven't seen on in about a month.