Whew! Let me dust thing off! It's been a while...Sorry for my abscense. It's a been a bit busy!
Not a tremendous amount new going on...
Still having a hard time getting out of bed, but I've always been like that. My workouts last week were lacking. We were super busy and we had our 3-day religious convention on F/S/Su. We also had things to do each night! We had company on Fri night, a baby shower to attend on Sat night and my brother and a few friends came over on Sunday night. He left for Mexico this past Monday so it was my last chance to see him for a while. They were over until 12:30 am!
So, this week I am supposed to be on Week 5 of the C25K. Well, last week I only got in Day 1 of Week 4 and yesterday was my first day back out there and I was pushed for time so I mostly walked and did a bit of jogging myself. I'm thinking I may just forget the C25K and start trying to do a R3/W2 for 30 min. When I start training for the half, this is what I will start out with, so I figure instead of completing the C25K with goal to be to run for 30 min, it may be better to start training my body to do this 3/2 interval. What do you think? I feel like this may better serve my needs to get me to the Half vs trying to run for 30 min straight. Maybe when I start training for my TRI (the run is only 2 miles) I'll try to work up to be able to run for that distance instead.
Matt and I are really loving our bikes. We bought a bike rack and hitch for the back of his car. We brought them up here to work today and I just took mine out for a ride to the bank. I never realized so much of it was up hill! Coming back to work was pretty fun though. The town of Cary is very bike friendly. One of the bike shops gave us a map of the "greenways" so we are going to go out for a ride after work. I just bought a pair of bike shorts. They having padding in them for your bum. It's almost like a bike seat in your shorts! I'll try them out this afternoon. Matt much prefers the biking to the running! So far we've only done 2 rides. One was 8.8 miles, the other was a bit over 7 miles. I hope to bike about twice a week. Mondays and Fridays. Maybe some on the weekends too...just for fun! For now, I'm only going to attempt to swim once a week and then run/walk 3 days.
I'm quite excited thinking about the Half Marathon and that weekend. I've made our ressies. We are doing a split stay. 2 nights at Coronado and 2 nights at the Poly!!! I pray a code comes out! I've also made our dinner ressies too. It will be a quick trip for us, but it will be fun anyway. I can't think about the training too much or those Long R/Ws get a bit overwhelming. My longest one will be 12 miles in the training. Whew!
Did I mention I am about 99% sure I will do the Danskin women's TRI next May at WDW. They won't release the date until January, but I'm expecting it to be around May 16/17. Maybe the 8/9...not sure yet. We'll see. It's a bit shorter than a Sprint distance. It's a 1/4 mile swim, 9 mile bike and 2 mile swim. I think it will be fun.
In school I was never the best at any particular sport, but I was half-way descent at most of them. This is why I think the TRI may be a good fit for me. I guess we'll find out.
So...I think that's about all for now!
Thanks for continuing to check in on me!!!
Stacie
We'll be cheering you on from Ohio!
I'll then try to bike or swim on Saturday instead.
