Sunday:
I wanted to take my bike out for a long ride. When I got up in the morning, the temps outside were in the 40’s! Ack! The forecast had the highs being in the mid-70’s. So I figured it would be warming up. So I waitied for it warm up. Finally it started getting warmer. When it got up into the 50’s, I started getting my stuff together. By the time I was ready to leave, it was almost 60 degrees out. I did a 37 mile ride on my tri-bike. This was the first long ride since I got my bike fitting redone. The aerobars were more comfortable. I managed to stay down on the bars for most of the ride. I stopped at McDonalds at about 15 miles. Then I stopped at Subway at about 31 miles and got a couple subs to take home. I just shove then in my jersey pockets. I managed to do about 2000 feet of climbing over the ride. As always, my ride ended with a 300 foot climb as I live on a hill.
In the afternoon, I went and did 2 hours of karate class. Man, were my legs tired!

Monday:
Normally there are classes at the pool, and I have to wait till 7:30 before open swim starts. But due to Columbus Day, there were no classes, and it was open swim. So I hit the pool right after work and swam a mile. I could have swam more, but I had a running race the next day, and didn’t want to wear myself out. One of the lifeguards who had been seeing me since I started swimming, commented on my improvement.

Tuesday:
I ran a 3 mile race (actually it was close to 5k). I finished in 21:13 and tied for 1st place. Me and the other guy intentionally went for the tie. We finished 2 minutes ahead of the next finisher. I went to normal karate class after work.

Wednesday:
I rode my bike to the community center and swam for an hour. I swam 45 laps, or close to 1.3 miles. I alternated between front crawl (Freestyle), and back crawl (back stroke). Then I rode my bike home. The bike ride was only about 6 miles, but had about 600 feet of climbing.

Thursday:
Ran 6 miles: 1 easy mile (10:00 pace) and 5 miles at 7:30 pace.

Friday:
I normally go swimming after work, and before karate class. But I didn’t have time, since I stopped at the bike shop for a 30% off sale. I bought some new tires for my triathlon bike. Then I went to 2 hours of karate class.

Saturday:
I ran 13 miles. Then I spent most of the rest of the day resting, and working on repairing an old Schwinn bike.

Posted by Rob in Workout Logs on October 12th, 2008 |