Much better workout today

Things were so much nicer today.  I did run on the treadmill (yuck), but the run went better (yeah!).

Today was an interval day.  I warmed up for 10 minutes at a nice easy pace then I did 6 rounds of intervals.  I did 2 minutes hard and 2 minutes easy.  Each of the hard intervals I descend with the last round being the fastest.  Then I did 10 minutes of warm down at an easy pace.  It felt so much better than yesterday.  Yesterday just was awful and I'm erasing it from my brain.

After my run I did weights.  Today I did upper body.  I'm getting stronger.  No only can I feel it, but I'm starting to see it in the tone of my arms.  Next week I have to increase the weight on about 3 exercises.  I'm happy about that.

When I got home I did a core workout, but it was really fun.  It's kind of like a drinking game, but with exercise.  Here is what I did.

So not only am I working out, but I get to rewatch the entire Buffy series!!!!!!!  Now some episodes will have more exercise than others.  Like today I started with episode 9 of season 1 since that's where I am in my rewatch.  I ended up doing only 5 squats and 50 jack knife sit-ups.  That's it.  There wasn't a lot of other stuff.  I think I may change the Giles glasses set to when he takes off his glasses.  He did that a lot, but he never cleaned them. While I was doing this, the dogs were in the playpen just watching me and laying on their bed.  They probably thought I was nuts.  Indy sat on the couch and when I was stretching, she would try to come get attention.  That's the other added benefit of this, I stretch while I'm watching.  That should really help as well.  I do stretch, but not as much as I should.

I've been watching the Olympic Trials every night.  It's exciting to see our swimmers do well.  I'm glad they are streaming it online.  It's fun to watch really fast swimming.  So far we've had swimmers make second swims each night.  I'm going to check the results from prelims this morning in a bit.  It's just so exciting!!!!!!!!

I'm off to buy new running shoes.  I want to have them broken in and ready to go for my 10K at the end of April so I need to get them today.  Tomorrow I have an easy 3-4 mile run and I'm doing legs.  I have to do it really early as we have the Victor Davis Meet starting tomorrow.  I'll be at the pool for 3 days so I really want to get tomorrow's workout in before the meet.  I don't know what I'll be able to do Saturday and Sunday.  Should be a fun weekend!

Enjoy your Thursday!

Inspiration Tuesday

Wow, it's hard to believe that this is the last week of March!  It seems like it just flew by.  Well, our warm weather is gone for now, but we are still well above the norms here so I can't complain too much.  The last two weeks just spoiled me.

I adjusted my training schedule for this week because I don't have to go into the University on Wednesday.  I made Monday my rest day.  I was at a Regional Learn to Train swim camp all weekend and Monday made more sense as a rest day.  Today I got up and went to the gym for my cross training day.  I did the recumbent bike for 45 minutes.  I also started reading a biography on Mark Spitz.  I thought it fitting since I just finished up one on Michael Phelps and Olympic Trials start today in Montreal.  I got about 2 chapters done, but so far so good!  I love reading biographies as the inspire me and I love being inspired.

Speaking of being inspired, today is Inspiration Tuesday!  Here is my inspiration for the week.

I am constantly trying to push myself further and harder.  I run and I set goals as I'm running.  Things like make it to the next stop sign in 30 seconds or run hard for 1:00 minute and see how far you go.  It breaks things up, but it also makes me realize that I can keep going.  Sometimes when I'm running I feel like my legs can't go anymore so I set a mini goal.  Once I get to that stop sign I see that I can keep going so I set another mini goal.  Pretty soon I'm done with my run when I thought I wouldn't make it through the last little bit.  It really helps me work on defying my limitations.

Tomorrow I will be using this as I have my long run.  I am coming to love those long runs, especially now that they are outside.  I love the fresh air and the sounds of nature.  It's been really nice.  I'll see in just over a week how all this training is helping me.  I have a 5k on Good Friday and I'm excited for it!  I hope my time is what I'm hoping it will be.

I'm off to watch Olympic Trials now.  They are streaming it online and the 400 IM prelims are this morning.  I love to watch the 400 IM, plus a lot of our swimmers are swimming!  Enjoy your day!