Speed Kills.
Saturday - June 7
Uhmmmmmm.... I won my age group!? I set a 5K PR by like 4 minutes?! I was third woman off the bike and onto the run course until the turn around?!
WHO AM I!??!? I'm confused.
But happy. You know. I'm happy. And I won a giant cannister of HEED.
bib number: | 1091 |
age: | 38 |
gender: | F |
location: | Crystal Lake, IL |
overall place: | 48 out of 92 |
division place: | 1 out of 3 |
gender place: | 6 out of 19 |
time: | 1:20:02 |
pace: | 0: |
swim: | 8:47 |
trans 1: | 1:41 |
bike: | 40:53 |
trans 2: | 1:07 |
run: | 27:37 |
penalty: | 0: |
Not too bad. I am still in shock over that 5K time. Seriously.
Take Heed. I'm getting faster. (Oh, I slay me)
- Health data: Hours slept: 7.5
- RACE DAY: Rockman sprint triathlon
Friday - June 6
200 swim
200 kick
200 pull with paddles
200 drill
200 IM (2 x 100)
200 swim
8 x 50
1) :20
2) :15
3) :10
4) :10
5) :05 (x2)
2 x 400 @ 85% (:15)
100 easy
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2500
Short swimmy. Swam it outside. Wonderful. VEEEEEEERRRRRYYYY windy, though, and it kept looking like it was going to storm. Never did. Not til I got out of the pool... :)
Sun is shining again, though and I bet I can find a rainbow if I look. It's been raining and sunny all day long. Humid. Like living in a terrarium, but the rainbows are cool.
6:37 AM: So... I meant to get up early and swim this morning... and I actually did get up early... I just didn't swim. I went back to bed. Early AM txt msg from dumpster saying he was going to sleep... an assessment of how I felt... and the knowledge that I should be getting out of work a bit early today... all led me to jump back into bed and pull the covers up over my head. Racing tomorrow. EEEEEK! I might just swim the short set tonight. 2400-2500. That should be enough.
Now, I'm going to make good use of my time and gather all my stuff together for the race. I don't want to forget some essential item (like, say, my bike... ) because I'm rushing around in a last minute frantic frenzy.
Speaking of swimming:
It appears as though I've never stopped. Notice everyone else is wearing clothes, and standing fashionably around the pool. I obviously just crawled out.
11:09AM: Just spoke with the other facilitator for today's BUSINESS WRITING BASICS class. She has a migraine and took off abruptly from my desk to go vomit in the bathroom. Ummmmm. OK. I imagine this session will go even faster than originally planned. I might be in the pool swimming by 4!
- Health data: Hours slept: 8
Thursday - June 5
Hmmmm, thought this would be faster. HOT! HUMID! HEADWIND! But at least it was flat.
:)

Have a splendid day, everyone!
5:08 PM Home a smidge early. Will be able to do my 2:10 ride and still have time to relax a bit and be human afterwards. Hoooray! Since I'm not at my desk and I don't have the photo flipper available, I'm going to scan in a real wiener... The date was 1994... presumably June. My sister's HS graduation. That's me, my sister and my Dad... Don't we all look enthused? I look constipated.
Wednesday - June 4
Lap 1: 10m 00s, 0.89 miles, 11m 11s /mile, Max HR 146, Avg HR 134
Lap 2: 10m 00s, 0.70 miles, 14m 14s /mile, Max HR 144, Avg HR 129
Lap 3: 00m 30s, 0.06 miles, 08m 53s /mile, Max HR 140, Avg HR 121
Lap 4: 01m 00s, 0.05 miles, 19m 20s /mile, Max HR 144, Avg HR 131
Lap 5: 00m 30s, 0.06 miles, 07m 50s /mile, Max HR 144, Avg HR 126
Lap 6: 01m 00s, 0.05 miles, 18m 59s /mile, Max HR 150, Avg HR 139
Lap 7: 00m 30s, 0.06 miles, 07m 43s /mile, Max HR 150, Avg HR 133
Lap 8: 01m 00s, 0.05 miles, 19m 28s /mile, Max HR 153, Avg HR 140
Lap 9: 00m 30s, 0.06 miles, 08m 04s /mile, Max HR 149, Avg HR 134
Lap 10: 01m 00s, 0.05 miles, 19m 53s /mile, Max HR 153, Avg HR 142
Lap 11: 09m 24s, 1.00 miles, 09m 24s /mile, Max HR 169, Avg HR 159
Lap 12: 10m 00s, 0.77 miles, 13m /mile, Max HR 167, Avg HR 145
A new mile PR for me. Although I wanted to DIE right there in the forest preserve. I don't know how people are able to MOVE faster than that. Really.
Corework
2 x 15 hip lifts off edge of steps
4 x 25 fitness ball situps
3 x 15 around the world on balance plate
4 x 20 vertical leg situps w/ weights
2 x 10 Statue of Liberty
A run on the sked today. And I've already done my corework. I'm oh-so-efficient and such. A slight risk of severe storms this afternoon... hopefully I won't have to run in them.
Will spend the bulk of the day today preparing for a BUSINESS WRITING BASICS class that I'm teaching on Friday. I still have to create the PPT presentation and figure out what I'm going to say. Last minute Laura. That's my name. Don't wear it out.
Oh Lookie: Here's a gem in the photo flipper today. This was my ((now defunct)) wedding shower. The date was 3/11/2002. I was experimenting with hair color right before my ((now defunct)) wedding. This was a reddish brown. Meh, notsomuch. With me, of course, is the ever adorable BFF Rachael. I had several glasses of wine. I suspect I was trying to look sultry. Jury's out.
12:13 PM: I just signed up for the ROCKMAN sprint on Saturday. Yippee. Just for fun. Just to race before July. No pressure. No expectations. No nothing.

Tuesday - June 3
300 Warm up
6 x 50 Misc drill
200 Free
8 x 25 Back
100 Free
3 x(50,100,150,200)(:10)
1) Pull
2) Kick
3) Swim
10 x 50 fast. (:05)
100 Easy
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3200
A little chatty today since Jana was back... so that delayed getting into the pool... and getting out. :)
Katie and I wore our matching suits today. Why? Why not?
10' Z1
4 x 200 stride + 200 recovery
1) 7:53/149
2) 7:55/154
3) 7:17/153
4) 7:52/154
Not sure what happened with #3 there... it didn't feel any faster than the other 3. Might be a Garmin mistake?
10' Z1
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30'
In the photo flipper today...the date was 10/4/1998. Me and my friend Jeanne. I'm giving a big old THUMBS UP. We were at my friend Sharon's daughter's birthday party. These are the same girls from the photo flipper a couple of days ago. I swear, this thing is random! But people show up in spurts. Like when your iPod is on "Shuffle" but it keeps hitting on the same artist...
12:12 PM: Somewhere Over the Rainbow is on the radio right now. That new version with the Ukelele. I love it. I just love it.

5:19 PM: Funky-Town by Lipps, INC is on the radio. I'm having a roller rink flashback. I was a rink rat from age 10-14. Does that make me cool? Or maybe notsomuch? I had a red T-shirt that said "ROLLER DERBY" in glitter iron-on... and my name in green felt letters on the back. All the letters eventually fell off, just leaving the middle "R". Poo.
7:11 PM: Home! Leaving now to go run. A short one. Back in a flash.
- Health data: Hours slept: 8
Monday - June 2
Recovery Day! And OMG I need it. Am looking forward to doing nothing involving exercise today. I think I may get a pedicure, though... As long as they don't make me move too much. Am recovering. I want to execute this recovery day perfectly. Thankyouverymuch.
I do have ART tonight after work. Will have Dr. Fager look at both knees and finish up the neck/upperback area. That's almost totally better now.
In the photo flipper today:
My dear **DAD** spectating Jim's (my brother in law's) first Ironman, in Madison. They got seats in the bleachers by the finishing line. I didn't go to any of Jim's races because he raced before I knew what triathlon was all about. Before I knew how important having support was. Plus, I had my own deal going on at the time and didn't have much support to give. I needed support myself, in a different way.
I still regret not seeing him race, and am hopeful he'll race again sometime soon! He's talented and quite fast.
10:10 AM: I'm craving fried eggs. The yolks specifically. Hmmmm. Methinks I have some sort of protein deficiency.
4:53 PM: Pedicure done! My toes look much better. Tonight I will trim my own hair and deep condition it, too. A Laura-maintenance day. This is what happens in the summer when there's no time for anything. I cut my own hair. My stylist chick will have to fix it in October, when I have a free moment. Hair is so curly that if I cut it unevenly no one can ever tell. And even if they can... so what.

8:36 PM: Hair, DONE! We'll see what it looks like when it dries. I'm just hoping I got all the gnarly ends cut off. I think I cut off about 2 inches. Tried to give myself layers. We'll see how it looks after swimming tomorrow. *Sigh* Why does a proper haircut/highlight cost $179.00 and take 2.5 hours? WHYYYYY????
- Health data: Hours slept: 9.5
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