1/25/04

ditto here to...coldest day in ohio...1 deg...frosty eyebrow look.  44min run.  see log for the chilling details.

35 minutes on the bike on the trainer

weights: lower body & AB

Did a 2-10-2 sprint duathlon this a.m. The 3rd leg of this tri will be getting the kids to do their homework (tougher than the duathlon!), but they're in the home stretch and almost caught up!

Sharon

Training, work, lack of sleep caught up all at once today so I'm resting. Looking through Backpacker magazine's 2004 gear reviews. Yay gear! Feels like I drank last night.

so how was the du? Did you take it easy as planned? Inquiring minds want to know.

It is freezing cold here too, so I was off to the Y too. Swam 1400m - warmup, drills, 800m broken sets, cooldown. Leg weights as well. Phew!

I am looking into a new bike trainer, so that's exciting.

I ran 10 miles in 6F degree weather. Other than my exposed earlobe got cold, it was a comfortable condition. Snow wasn't slashy due to the cold weather - nice and firm. I successfully completed the 3rd week of 12-week-long half marathon training.

The next time I bitch and moan about a bad training session you guys all have permission to smack the crap out of me. I read numerous posts about the challenges of training while living in a climate with an average temperature of 7. I live in Sonoma CA, an hour north of San Francisco and today it's about 55 degrees, clear as a bell and stunningly gorgeous....so what did I do? I went to the Y to swim. What's funny is all of our weather reports are freaking out about this "COLD SNAP" we're having. I need to learn to take advantage more of the climate I live in and to quit cryballing when it dips below 60.

nt

crpadiem: I'm a warm climate person as well. Remember that in April or May (at least for me), they're going to be bitching and moaning about 70 degrees being too hot and we'll be dealing with low to mid 90's! IT WAS COLD THIS MORNING!

Trimom: In the du I really paid close attention to holding back on the first run and bike, and my legs kind of do what they want anyway on the second run. Thanks for asking!

Sharon

Freezing cold this morning, -25c, but got most of my long run in, 14km. It was so cold that my water bottle cap froze on and when I finally got it opened it was like eating ice pellets.

was nice and warm in the gym! to many people tho. Did 20 min on the bike and ran 20 min on the mill. felt good. then i shoveled snow for about 30 and now off to cook dinner and go to work for 13 hours and start over tomarrow! have a good one all! stay warm! ;-) Jack.

freezing my ass off here as well.
HEy bigpikle - I feel your pain I did the wine duatholon on Friday night and was hurting saturday. Hope you are drinking real ale - much better for ya!!!


Went to the Y today and swam.

A Rest Day today -- it is soooo hard for me to do this! I feel lazy on these days, but I know it is the thing to do ---- right?---- Once I made the decision to take a rest day you couldn't pay me to do an exercise! I think is the law about someone who is in inaction will stay in the mode of inaction!! Or some such law.

Actually, now that the day is more than half over, I am feeling good about it and think I will feel more rested for tomorrow's start of a new workout week.

Nancy

started out on bike before going to Disney and my hands were so cold they were almost feeling numb when got up to speed. It wasn't that cold, but couldn't handle it. At noon time at Disney it was in the 70's! Oh well, family time was more important anyways! Turned out my legs were still sore and 6 hours of walking today was enough anyways.