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Monday - June 11

Planted 150 flowers and unloaded/spread 1 1/2 yards of mulch. Plus did some pruning of one of our pine trees. My body worked hard today, but I feel funny logging anything so I won't. Last two days I have done quite a bit of physical work around the farm. Good cross training I hope. My back feels suprisingly good after two days of shoveling, bending, stooping, etc.

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Sunday - June 10

Full day of housework and yardwork. No tri related training, but I did work up a sweat working outside. :)

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Saturday - June 9

Bike

2h 14m 18s
30.65 miles
13.69 Mi/hr

9:30am Nice morning ride. All I wanted to accomplish today was an easy ride with more miles than I have been doing. Mission accomplished. I actually made three brief stops along the way. One at 7 miles to check out the strawberries at a local farm. Two at 12 miles to say a quick hello to a friend and confirm that the route I chose was all on paved roads. Three at 25 miles to pick up a couple packages of smoked pork chops at the local smokehouse.

The cold front came through last night so temps were in the 60's and bright blue skies. The only down side was a gusty north wind. The majority of the first 17 miles was directly into the wind.

Sport

Stretching
30m

My back isn't bad, but I have had a slight increase in soreness the past two days. I feel pretty darn good on the bike as long as I am not pedaling too hard. So since I can't bike at the intensity level that I want to, I decided to utilize the red border on my mini calendar to highlight days like today.

Health data: Sick: 2

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Friday - June 8

Sport #1

Stretching
20m

6am walk 4 miles, 13:54 pace. Pleasantly surprised that I kept the pace under 14:00.

Sport #2

Walking
55m 37s

6am walk 4 miles, 13:54 pace. Pleasantly surprised that I kept the pace under 14:00.

I don't know if it was the lawn mowing yesterday evening or standing at the kitchen counter baking late last night, but my back started bothering me just a tad. Whatever, I thought it best to not run today so I just did a brisk 4 mile walk instead. Now I have to keep my hands off the chocolate chip cookies and the blueberry muffins that I baked last night for my Relay for Life team's bake sale.

Health data: Sick: 2

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Thursday - June 7

Bike

1h 36m 34s
23.63 miles
14.68 Mi/hr

a.m. commute. 18.0 miles, 1:11:52, 15.0mph average. Finally able to arrange my schedule to take the longer route into work this morning. First 5 miles mostly uphill and into the wind. That was ugly. The tailwind sections were grand! Warm front on its way so it was quite breezy this morning. Other than the wind, a beautiful morning for a ride into work.

p.m. commute. 5.63 miles, 24:42, 13.7 mph average. Hot and windy. No, I mean HOT AND WINDY. Wind on the way home was all headwind or crosswind. The crosswinds were strong enough to push me sideways a bit. Just took it easy and spun my way home.

How can I have a nice filling breakfast of an egg and cheese on whole grain english muffin and a large glass of OJ and then ride my bike to work and all I can think about is devouring a large pizza? Then when I left work I wasn't hungry at all, but during the bike ride, I kept thinking about that pizza again! yeesh! :)

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Wednesday - June 6

Run

36m 32s
3.75 miles
09m 44s /Mi

6am Had to pull the tights out of the closet this morning as temps were in the 40's. Near perfect conditions for a run! I love walking out the door at 10 minutes to 6 and it is light outside. Still enjoying the wildflowers. Saw my first wild indigo blooming today. Still don't quite get why the flowers are yellow (although someone once explained it to me, but I have since forgotten).

Sport #1

Stretching
15m

Warm up: walk 1 mile, 16:40
Cool down: walk 1 mile, 15:10

Sport #2

Walking
31m 50s

Warm up: walk 1 mile, 16:40
Cool down: walk 1 mile, 15:10

So swimming was changed from Tuesday to Monday and biking from Monday to Wednesday and running from Wednesday to Tuesday, but I was lazy Tuesday so running was changed from Tuesday to Wednesday and biking changed from Wednesday to Thursday. :) :) :) :)

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Tuesday - June 5

Not good. 2nd missed workout in 3 days. Woke up this morning and was going to run, but the rain and wind howling outside made me stay in bed. Yep, it MADE me do it! ;) Then work ran late as usual on Tuesdays. I HAD to start making a little headway on the mowing before dark. So now it's 9pm and I'm eating because I'm starving. Will try again tomorrow to get back on track.