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Today
Patchy rain nearby High 84FLow 62F
  • Temp: 88F
  • Hum: 36%
  • W: 13mph SSW
THURSDAY
Patchy rain nearby
High 75F
Low 54F
FRIDAY
Partly Cloudy
High 54F
Low 28F
SATURDAY
Sunny
High 55F
Low 35F
SUNDAY
Sunny
High 55F
Low 33F

April 4

Bike
  • 58m 06s
  • 15.00 miles
  • 15.49 Mi/hr

Night time trainer ride.

Flew on the corporate jet to NYC in the morning and spent the whole day in Manhattan for a seminar.  Arrived back in Corning in the evening.  Starting reading the Total Immersion book while on the 45 minute plane ride.  Need to start doing the TI drills in earnest to fight this balance and resistance issue.

April 3

Swim
  • 20m 10s
  • 500.00 yards
  • 04m 02s /100 yards

10x50

The harsh reality of life with out the pull buoy kicked me squarely in the teeth today. After swimming 1500 yards nonstop with the pull buoy last week, I found myself not being able to go more than 50 yards without it today, and needing lots of rest between sets. It seems that I can totally throw out the last 6 weeks or so of swim training where I built up to 1500 yds at one shot with the pull buoy, as I am no better off now than I was 6 weeks ago. I will break out the Total Immersion book again and will work exclusively on the balance and floating drills my next time in the pool. This has got to get easier at some point in time...

Race report is up.

April 2

Strength
  • 15m

  • EXERCISE

    Sets
    Min
    reps
    Max
    reps
    Min
    wt.(lb)
    Max
    wt.(lb)
  • ABS - Crunch, Twisting
    2
    15
    15
    0
    0
  • ABS - Crunches
    2
    15
    15
    0
    0
  • ABS - Crunches, Jackknife
    2
    15
    15
    0
    0
  • ABS - Crunches, Reverse
    2
    15
    15
    0
    0
My legs are overall quite sore from yesterdays's hilly race. My quads are sore, in addition to my hamstring. Of course, the quads are a different kind of sore (DOMS), and they'll be back to normal in a day or two. We'll see on the hammy. I had a swim on tap for today, but just didn't seem to be in the mood for it, so I made it a rest day, doing only a core workout before bed. Tomorrow I'll get in the pool without the pull buoy...

April 1

Run
  • 1h 43m 37s
  • 13.17 miles
  • 07m 54s /Mi
With the hamstring flaring up and not healing quickly enough, I said before that common sense told me I should skip this half marathon and not risk more serious injury. Of course I ran it anyway. Well this lack of common sense saw me shatter my modest goal of 1:50, and handily surpass my pie in the sky goal of 1:45, with a time of 1:43:38! Needless to say I'm quite pleased, but the next few days will really tell how pleased I am, depending on how the hamstring recuperates. All the details will be in the race report which I'll post tomorrow.

March 31

Strength
  • 25m

  • EXERCISE

    Sets
    Min
    reps
    Max
    reps
    Min
    wt.(lb)
    Max
    wt.(lb)
  • BICEPS - Bent Bar Standing
    2
    8
    8
    65
    65
  • BICEPS - DB Curls Alternating
    3
    12
    12
    25
    30
  • TRICEPS - DB Overhead Extension
    2
    12
    12
    25
    25
  • TRICEPS - French Curls
    2
    8
    8
    70
    70

March 30

After running easy yesterday, the hamstring seemed to tighten up on me, and I can still feel it today.  As it stands now, common sense would tell me that I probably should not race on Sunday.  However, I guess I'm lacking common sense.  Obviously there will be no running unitil Sunday, and I'll reassess at that time.  I had hoped to get a 1650 yard swim in today, but work is intervening and it doesn't look like I can get to the pool for lunch.

March 29

Run
  • 1h 16m 16s
  • 8.00 miles
  • 09m 31s /Mi

Time ~ 0545-0700
Weather - 26�F at the start; dark, clear and starry. 28�F at the finish; clear and bright.

Ran at an easy pace as I did not want to test the hamstring too much with any fast running. I did want to do a little bit of distance, however, and ran in my newly purchased compression shorts. I was aware of the hamstring while running, but it didn't really bother me. I won't run again until Sunday's race. This 8 mile run gives me 100 running miles for the month.

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