Gym
Run – 15 mins on "injury trail"
Today's run felt fabulous. Whereas before things felt like they were kinda breaking down at the end, I felt strong for the whole 15 mins. Didn't feel anything at all in the right knee and would put the left at 90%. It took an incredible amount of will power not to take on an extra few minutes and make it a solid twenty minutes. I've been in a wonderful mood today all due to 15 short minutes of pain free running.
I've been looking into triathlons and I don't know if I've explained my reasoning in switching from Marathon to Triathlon yet. Obviously a marathon involves mass quantities of running, including at least a 16-18 mile run. Considering I'm joyous about a mere 2 miles this morning, that's a rather daunting task. If I do a Sprint tri, the running portion is only a 5K, meaning I can run mileage in the 30-40 range, which is probably a good idea. Also, I'm learning to swim anyways, and the extra activity doesn't seem to bother my knee. I have to add in biking, but I'm pretty sure even that is a better on my body as I'm trying to both build up and recover from injury. So while Tri training is typically a more intense experience (not that I know this from the million of Tris I've done (i.e. 0)) I can spread out my training between three sports, and since I'm planning on doing a Sprint Tri, that's a quarter mile swim, 9 mile bike ride, and 3.1 mile run, all manageable distances on their own. We'll see what happens when I throw 'em all together. So, if my body holds up I may give a whirl at a half marathon (possibly Seattle Rock and Roll with Mer).
The Tri I'm currently looking at is in May, so I'll have to see how my training goes to see if that's plausible or not. 3 months?
On a side note it's raining. And I realize I might not be able to swim tomorrow if its raining. And as I type that I'm sure there are people out there being like, why can't you swim? You're wet all ready! I don’t know if people swim in the rain. I guess it makes sense. I run in the rain no problem. Somehow that just seems like it would really suck. It's like the water is already trying to take me down from the depths of the pool. It doesn't seem right that I should be bludgeoned from the sky as well. Seems like a lose/lose situation to me.
Hopefully it just stops raining.
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Hi Julie,
I did a sprint tri the summer before my freshman year at Brown because I had a stress fracture (of course) and was basically already doing the training. It was a lot of fun and made all the cross training much more fun. My sister has also done a few and she loves them. So you should totally do one. Plus it sounds pretty hard core.
Hey Julie,
Long time, hope you're doing well. I took up swimming this fall and can relate to your struggles. I thought I was going to drown every swim until one day at the pool I suddenly felt pretty comfortable in the water. Feel like a real athlete having to use my arms for exercise for a change!
Take care
man. i need to catch up on your posts. you're such a good blogger.
by the way - hair is SUPER cute. i liked your discussion on boys noticing. . . . it is hilarious.
can't wait to hang out this weekend!
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