Fitness blah-g
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threadwalkerLabor of sanity .
Last Monday (3/10): run 4 mi at lunch
Tuesday (3/11): Downhill ski all day
Wherein there is a big gap due to Life. And my serenity starts to slip. I need my workouts - they keep me sane.
Sunday Night (3/16)
Run: 5.5 mi in 50 min. (New distance; new duration; found lactic threshold... Oh my! (1))
Weight Lift 45 min (bench press, pull overs, hammer curl, lat-pull downs, cable row, 4 different ab exercises)
Monday (3/17)
Swim: 25 - 30 min (finally back in the pool. Upper body sore from Sunday night and echoed achiness while swimming)
Yoga: 1 hr (it was more like "speed" yoga. bleck. AND it focused on shoulders and arms.. color me unthrilled and in lots of pain)
(1) Lactic threshold. I did some reading in my new Tri-book, which discusses this at length. The goal is to find it and then increase it so that you can perform endurance sports at higher levels (or longer times) without hurting your self or your muscles. I think I correctly identified my lactic threshold with my labored breathing, hammering heart, and pain in my legs as I pulled off the sprint at the end of the run. I was sort of easing into that threshold zone when it was time to crank up the speed and sprint.
My self-brag is that I ran for a full 50 minutes and increased my pace for 25 of that. Plus I did a 2 min cool down jog. Woot Woot! And I sprinted in at the end. I had the treadmill cranked up to 9mph for a minute and I felt like I was flying; I was using ALL the muscles in my legs and hips to make that pace and it felt great. When I was done, I was totally relieved, too. I held back nothing. Yeah!
And Boy, Hum, baby! I got off the treadmill all wobbly and fully fatigued. I wobbled over to the rental lockers to get my shirt and I'm SURE my rolling gait made it look like I was strutting my stuff. I definitely was getting "looks" from the Junior college homies back there. Probably along the lines, "WTF is she strutting her stuff for? Old broads are so crazy," or, "Dang! I didn't know you could get so RED in the face." hahaha!
Today, ... right NOW, my legs are jello. I took a little rest when walking back from across the site. Swimming was tough - 200 yrds of just kicking during warm-ups to remind me that my legs worked hard last night. Then at lunch the speed yoga class from hell was torture; when we weren't holding our arms out and twisting, reaching and squeezing shoulders, we were zipping through poses at (IMO) a very un-yoga-like speed. Between the arm/shoulder work out and the legs, I just want to find a big sun-beam somewhere and take a nice looooong nap. mmmmm ... naps...
Oh - and sewing happened this weekend. Now I have about 100 eyelets to hand sew. Color me thrilled.
Last Monday (3/10): run 4 mi at lunch
Tuesday (3/11): Downhill ski all day
Wherein there is a big gap due to Life. And my serenity starts to slip. I need my workouts - they keep me sane.
Sunday Night (3/16)
Run: 5.5 mi in 50 min. (New distance; new duration; found lactic threshold... Oh my! (1))
Weight Lift 45 min (bench press, pull overs, hammer curl, lat-pull downs, cable row, 4 different ab exercises)
Monday (3/17)
Swim: 25 - 30 min (finally back in the pool. Upper body sore from Sunday night and echoed achiness while swimming)
Yoga: 1 hr (it was more like "speed" yoga. bleck. AND it focused on shoulders and arms.. color me unthrilled and in lots of pain)
(1) Lactic threshold. I did some reading in my new Tri-book, which discusses this at length. The goal is to find it and then increase it so that you can perform endurance sports at higher levels (or longer times) without hurting your self or your muscles. I think I correctly identified my lactic threshold with my labored breathing, hammering heart, and pain in my legs as I pulled off the sprint at the end of the run. I was sort of easing into that threshold zone when it was time to crank up the speed and sprint.
My self-brag is that I ran for a full 50 minutes and increased my pace for 25 of that. Plus I did a 2 min cool down jog. Woot Woot! And I sprinted in at the end. I had the treadmill cranked up to 9mph for a minute and I felt like I was flying; I was using ALL the muscles in my legs and hips to make that pace and it felt great. When I was done, I was totally relieved, too. I held back nothing. Yeah!
And Boy, Hum, baby! I got off the treadmill all wobbly and fully fatigued. I wobbled over to the rental lockers to get my shirt and I'm SURE my rolling gait made it look like I was strutting my stuff. I definitely was getting "looks" from the Junior college homies back there. Probably along the lines, "WTF is she strutting her stuff for? Old broads are so crazy," or, "Dang! I didn't know you could get so RED in the face." hahaha!
Today, ... right NOW, my legs are jello. I took a little rest when walking back from across the site. Swimming was tough - 200 yrds of just kicking during warm-ups to remind me that my legs worked hard last night. Then at lunch the speed yoga class from hell was torture; when we weren't holding our arms out and twisting, reaching and squeezing shoulders, we were zipping through poses at (IMO) a very un-yoga-like speed. Between the arm/shoulder work out and the legs, I just want to find a big sun-beam somewhere and take a nice looooong nap. mmmmm ... naps...
Oh - and sewing happened this weekend. Now I have about 100 eyelets to hand sew. Color me thrilled.
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Date: 2008-03-18 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-18 03:15 pm (UTC)Why... does that seem like a lot?
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Date: 2008-03-19 05:26 am (UTC)eyelets
Date: 2008-03-19 06:55 pm (UTC)But even if it was heavy wool and linen, I'd be setting my eyelets 1/2 inch - 3/8 inch apart. I have frequently found that if I don't space stuff close, you get that accordian effect when you tighten the laces. In addition to avoiding the accordian-effect (or scrunching), I have found that close lacing more exactly replicates what it would look like if it were sewn shut, which (to my eye) provides a smoother fit in the torso. And in my mind, garments that are laced shut shouldn't gap or bulge or scrunch - it should look as though all the seams are sewn shut, so the trick is to get the closures to also lay as though it were sewn and not laced. The closer set eyelets help me meet that goal. Even with that, I'm plagued by guilt when I set them 3/8 and not 1/2 inch.
I wonder if I'm being a little OCD about this... but there it is.