Thoughtful Thursdays

I borrowed the title from discombobulatedrunning.blogspot.com.

Thursdays are really mostly really good days for me.  Most weeks I get to work from home on Thursday.  That means that I am able to relax (lounge) all day and really only get dressed to go work out. 

Thursdays are also good because I have a brick workout scheduled.  I get off the bike and go for a quick run.  Unfortunately Thursdays also means yoga (yuk). 

My normal Thursday routine is to get up early (5 am) do yoga for 90 minutes and then work until around 11:30 and go ride and run.  This morning, yoga just didn't happen.  I just couldn't get moving.  So I think I can still do it tonight no big deal.  So I finally get my lazy butt up at 6:30, make breakfast and start work. 

I check out Facebook and notice that there will be a group ride locally tonight.  25 miles - 17-19 mph pace.  Score.  Sign me up.  I can do that. 

My lunch run today was AWESOME.  It hadn't quite got hot yet so it was georgeous out.  Well it wasn't 5 - 6 am nice but nice all the same.  The run it self was really good.  Nice pace.  I had to work but I didn't work to hard.  It was great.  It was a 5 mile run.  I planned for a uphill start and then a uphill finish.  I know doesn't make a lot of sense but it was meant to be a little challenging and that it was. 

Now to relax, finish the workday and get ready for tonights ride.  We will try to get yoga in some other time. 

Welcome Wednesday

I am beginning to feel like a failure at blogging.  It was exciting when I was doing tri or races.  There was something to talk about.  Talking about my normal workouts sounds too much like whining and that is just not something I want to publish.  I do plenty of it but I do not want the world to know how big a baby I am.


I am looking forward to a long ride this weekend with Second Wind.  I love long group rides.  They are always fun. 

July Stats

As readers of this blog know all to well, I have been working on P90X instead of specifically training for triathlons. My rationale has been, I am taking a break it improve my swimming.  Well in the month of July I spent very very little time in the pool.  I know, I know, I can't improve by just thinking about it or wishing it.

I have been reading books and watching videos and even watching videos of myself floundering in the pool.  So I have been "working on it".


So now that I have 2 weeks left on this round of P90X, I have decided to not only stop just visualizing swimming but actually get back to doing it consistently.  Follow the plan.  So I am going to just do it.

My training stats for July were:

Bike:        19h 22m 55s  - 333.37 Mi Run:         13h 35m 30s  - 106.55 Mi Strength:  16h 15m

This does not include the little swimming I did.  So this month I will be adding about 5 - 6 hours of  swimming to these totals.  It may sound a little aggressive but I have to do it if I want to improve and I do want to improve.

I also will be seeing a nutritionist next week.  I have a motor that just doesn't stop but I think I am starving it of needed nutrition.  Lets hope that I will actually eat the foods they recommend.  I am totally stubborn like that.