10.9.17 Monday Morning!

Stretch
Core work

(off day for me)

Later today I plan to go through the marathon course map for next Sunday and visualize the course. I spent time yesterday marking up a copy of the course map with landmarks that I'm familiar with, to make it easier to visualize all of it. There are some areas I don't know as well, but if I at least have something familiar coming up, I can keep myself on track mentally and remain strong.

At this point I think I would run in any weather.....if I could run pain-free! Hope your back and ankle are feeling better.

Kind of a "make it up as you go along" type workout here:

AM: 48 minutes of biking on the stationary in the hotel fitness room. Mostly Z2 with a little Z3 (high-cadence pickups). The fitness room is actually quite nice but there's only one bike and it's a recumbent. The new position wasn't making my butt muscles too happy so I cut it short a bit.

Then 25 minutes of strength stuff. They didn't have 6 kg weights, which was kind of a mess. 4 kg is too light for a lot of things, and 8 too heavy. (I know, I am a creampuff.) Quite sweaty as a Korean dude came in, insisted on turning off the AC, then did a very intense interval workout on the treadmill. Training for a hot race, I guess.

PM: Went to the "beach" at Sentosa and swam for 30-ish minutes. The surf was kind of high and there's one stretch that's not sheltered like the rest of the bay (which is blocked by an island) so I got some "roller coaster" practice.

Honestly, I think the shopping wore me out more than the workouts! New goggles, fitted bed sheets (crazy expensive in Saigon--cheaper here), KT tape, jeans, some winter tops for Mom, and a pair of winter PJ's for home. There is a chain here (and elsewhere in Asia but not Vietnam--in the US only a few stores in the Bay Area) where I can always find things that fit, unlike anywhere in Saigon or the US, so pretty much everything that's not tailor-made or from some market is from there. I'm reliably size M. Thank you, Uniqlo!

I need the PJ's for the hotel--fierce room AC and it can't be adjusted! I guess this is what all the "winter" stuff in the stores now is for.

Edited by Hot Runner 2017-10-09 7:18 PM