Since I’m stepping up the biking and swimming aspects of my training, I have spent significantly less time on running. Only 4 runs this month so far for ~24 miles. Even though I know it is not true, it somehow makes me feel like I am accomplishing less. I think that may be because a good swim or bike ride makes me very sore right now. It will be slow going the next few weeks while I get my body used to a different kind of pounding.
Since the last time I blogged, I got in a good swim and bike workouts. On Saturday I lifted weights at the gym and then went to the pool. As sad as it may be, I love going on Saturday nights because the gym is empty! The pool I use is 20 yards long and I have been doing nine 40 yard repetitions. On this last workout, I again did nine repititions, but two of them were for 60 yards rather than 40. It may not seem like much, but I can see small improvements each time out, which makes me happy.
Then, yesterday afternoon, I went for a 16 mile bike ride across to the west side and up the hudson river bike path to 135th St – see map here, generated on my iPhone. There are no hills so it was not a very strenuous workout from that perspective, but it was windy, a bit cold, and only my 2nd workout of the year, so it felt hard. I’ll try to get a short run in tonight.
Next up for me is a business trip to Miami tomorrow through Thursday. I’m excited to get two warm weather runs in, although the run workouts in my last trip to Miami in December (here and here) were a total disaster.
