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September 8
- 20m
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Easy 20 minutes with some 20 second sprints thrown in as planned. Legs feel fresh as a daisy!
September 7
- 21m 33s
- 2.00 miles
- 10m 46s /Mi
Easy 2 miles with Steve.
- 25m
- 1000.00 yards
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Well, the word last weekend was that we'd hear from the new kittens' foster mom today about when they can come home with us, but so far we haven't heard anything. Which could be just as well--we wouldn't be able to bring them home until after the race on Sunday, and we will probably be pretty darn tired (*ahem*) at that point. We'll see.
Nice, easy swim. Did a few 50s sprint, but mostly just wanted to loosen up.
TWO DAYS.
Swimming at lunch today, running in the evening.
September 6
- Health data: Sleep: 2 Hours slept: 5.5
September 5
- 49m 28s
- 13.54 miles
- 16.42 Mi/hr
Home > Work > Home.
It is starting to sink in that my HIM is really this weekend. Gah. If I plotted my heart rate throughout the day you could tell when I was thinking about the race by looking at the spikes in the graph. I know I CAN finish, and barring injury or catastrophic mechanical failure I know I WILL. But I also know that there are major holes (okay, craters) in my training that seriously undermine my preparedness. At this point, I figure the best thing for me to do is focus on the following:
- Do my remaining workouts as planned.
- Get some sleep these next few nights.
- Eat right and don't be shy with the salt.
- Hydrate hydrate hydrate.
- Make lists of everything I need on race day (lists calm me down--I'm type A like that).
- Write out my nutrition & hydration plan (it's in my head, but it helps to have it written down).
- Don't waste time or energy stressing about how prepared I am or am not.
- If I'm going to think about the race, make it positive visualizations.
Biked to work this morning. Knee felt fine! Fresh legs are great. Pushed it a bit on a small hill, but mostly just spun them out. Felt great to be back on the bike. :) At one point I got stuck behind two slowpokes on mountain bikes (with slicks, but still) tooling along at 15 mph without a care in the world. The shoulder, while very nice, was not wide enough to accommodate three abreast, so I had to wait for a break in the traffic to pass them. And it being morning rush hour, that took a while. Thought about saying something to, *ahem*, alert them to my presence, but chickened out. Eventually I got a break, yelled "on your left!" a little more pointedly than usual, and blew by them.
September 4
- 30m
- 1000.00 yards
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Afternoon swim. Took it very slow & easy, especially as the shoulder was feeling tired. Bagging the run this evening... might go tomorrow if my knee is feeling better. Hoping to bike to work tomorrow! Meanwhile, it's time to fire up the grill for dinner this evening: locally raised, grass-fed, extra-lean longhorn steaks from the farmer's market; grilled zucchini, red bell pepper, and mushroom; corn; and some good bread. Yum.
Now this is what I'm talking about: a weekend touring Sonoma County (wine country and the coast) by bike. Hell yeah, sign me up! There's one the weekend after my birthday... Happy birthday to me??? :)
Knee was not feeling good first thing this morning. On tap for this afternoon is an easy swim (hang in there, shoulder, just six more days!) and theoretically a short run. I'm going to see how the knee feels. Might run, might not.
- Health data: Sleep: 3 Fatigue: 4 Hours slept: 6
September 3
- Home Improvement
- 2h 00m
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I DID IT! I am a HALF IRON(WO)MAN!!!
RR to come. Final time: 6h 20 min and change. I'll take it. It wasn't <6, but it was <6:30, which I felt was a more realistic goal given my spotty training. I am SO RELIEVED. I've been insanely stressed about this race, and after so much anticipation and anxiousness, it's hard to believe it's over--and that I did it!