For me, the winter's basebuilding is going to be all about fun training. The new year started out pretty good. Great Surfing session (I think that's a good substitution for a swim, right?) on New Year's day followed by a great ski tour (definitely a good substitution for a run), a fun day at Kirkwood (a halfway decent quad workout), and a "not-so-great but at least we got a work out in" ski tour, where we decided to start a bit too low and there really wasn't enough snow. But then I got sick and essentially missed the entire next week of doing anything at all. Being sick did help me realize why I sign up for things like this Ironman - each day of not working out made me more and more grumpy. Luckily, I'm back in a better health (and mood) this weekend, and I got a solid weekend of workouts in - 2 more days surfing, a solid night time trail run on the coast and beach, a quick ab workout, and a "warm-up" swim session at the local pool. We moved recently and discovered 2 public pools (and an ocean!) with great hours within a 10 minute drive from our new location - so that was a great find - no excuses for not getting swimming now! On top of all that, the Pats won a fantastic game against the Ravens and are onto the AFC championship! Not a bad weekend at all.
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Glad to hear you're feeling better! Track this week?? Also, what pools did you find? I'm always looking for other options... - Chen
ReplyDeleteGlad you're feeling better! I didn't realize you have been surfing again. It definitely kind of maybe sort of counts as swimming :) But isn't it freezing? Also... yeah Pats!!!!!!!!
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