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It's been an interesting week for me, workout schedule all over the place, 4:30 and 5:05 wakeup this week so my sleep schedule is way off. Tuesday I didn't eat lunch had a small meal on the way home, and bonked on the stationary after 30 minutes.  I never bonked ever! it was sucky and scary.  Yesterday, 4:30 am wakeup, work... pool doesn't open until 8:30Pm, In the water at 8:45, I don't know how I'm still awake at this point let alone in the water. 

 It all ended with my best swim session ever- 4 sets 5X50 (45-50 pace) 30 sec rest, 2M between sets. I know not steller times or distances but still the first time I ever swam that long. I realize that I am still suffering from the same problem my football called me out on in 2nd grade " miller you think too much, stop it!" so i stope thinking relaxed and slowed down and felt really comfortable in the water. Tonight swim lessons at 9! Coach troy when i get home. 

I used to back right off when full of the cold but over the last couple of years, have found that the exercise really helps move the infection along.  I back off a little bit and don't push it if finding it tough.

Today was supposed to be a 5 mile "race pace" run.  It was also 4 degrees.  I decided to use my last free day of my trial gym membership to do the run on the treadmill.  I haven't run on a 'mill in years - its still boring. 

If its over 10 tomorrow, I'm running outdoors.

so finally got out and put my bike and run together with a T2, had to find out if i could finish both, although my bike was 12 mi instead of 10, finished in 1:03:20,  actual run time was 21:35,  was hard to finish, tried to cramp at 2.5 miles, but slowed for a bit and was able to pick up the last short distance to finish...  just felt good to put it together for once

oh and to answer your question walt, the swim will be lake swim, and my 400 was y, race supposed to be meters, but your prolly right about inaccuracies in measuring the distances

i keep wishing for colder weather, but when yall keep talking about 4 and 12 degrees, im not so sure i want what i wish for... lol

Put the treadmill at 3 degrees and right around 8:45/mi.  Was a little slow so I popped the speed up a bit.  I did fine until about 1/2 through when I started playing numbers games and playing with the incline.  At the end I probably could have gone another 1/2 mile or so with no issues and no incline.

One good thing about the 'mill - if your mind wanders, your pace keeps up.  Every once in a while I find myself running at 10/mi and thinking about who-knows-what.

Six miles outside tomorrow, I hope

Put the treadmill at 3 degrees and right around 8:45/mi.  Was a little slow so I popped the speed up a bit.  I did fine until about 1/2 through when I started playing numbers games and playing with the incline.  At the end I probably could have gone another 1/2 mile or so with no issues and no incline.

One good thing about the 'mill - if your mind wanders, your pace keeps up.  Every once in a while I find myself running at 10/mi and thinking about who-knows-what.

Six miles outside tomorrow, I hope

Greasy hashbrowns.  Yum.  Now off to the gym to make up for yesterday's bad behavior.

Whew!  What a week.  that was not one I want to repeat ever again.  Monday it snowed and we got the car stuck in the yard.  Yes, the yard.  I slid off the driveway into a snow bank.  Took 3 hours to get it out and then we had to pull it with the tractor.  The rope we used to pull it then was frozen and stuck to the tow ring.  Tuesday I drove around with a rope hanging off my car. 

Tuesday was a mess and I had to shovel off the ROAD at our intersection in order to get to work.  Then I found that I had pulled something in my leg, probably while crawling under the car to shovel it out the night before.  Tuesday night our oldest horse came in with a 3" gash over his eye.  Of course it needed stitches.  On one of the coldest nights in 14 years, we waited for the vet.  5 stitches, 3 shots of tranq and 1 very drunk horse.  We were up most of the night with that. 

I took Wednesday off.  I had left detailed sub plans and figured that my students wouldn't mind.  Then we got the cold snap that closed school for 2 days.  Yes, they close schools here in MN for cold.  Seems that -20* (without wind) is the cut point for closing school. 

Of course I did no training while I was sitting at home.  Now it's snowing, again.  Cabin fever anyone?

Surgery went well.  The pain is already going down a little (although I am still pretty drugged up) and my shoulder already feels more stable.  Now the incision hurts instead of the actual bone/break site and my shoulder no longer droops several inches!! Now its time for a week off of sleep and movie watching... I'm already bored.

Keep up the great training everyone.

 How awful, can't really get my head around how cold that is, it once got down to 0.5C here and it was on the front page of the newspaper.  Hope your horse has sobered up and is doing well.

 glad things are going well - enjoy the break (no pun intended).