Day 64 - Rested

I'm up, Upperbody+ and either a run or ride today. Took the weekend off to let the calf heal. Spent some time at the pool with the kids and sweated my butt off doing some yard work. Feel good today.

Met up with the Mighty Tim and rode the entire Tobacco Trail today, 17.5 miles in 85 minutes. Bike computer said it was 105, all I know is that it was HOT.

Day 61

I'm up. Going to knock out Upper body+ from yesterday out then see how the right calf responds to the legs workout.

Upperbody: GO
Legs: NO GO

Going to hit the pool at lunch, may try legs again this afternoon.

Day 60

Running late this morning, lots of sleep interruptions last night and I'm feeling foggy on top of tired and sore. Should make for an interesting day.
On Deck: 3 Mile run, 13+ Mile Cycle at lunch, and Upper body+ workout sometime today. Oh and it's supposed to be 99 here. Good times.

Got the run done, went ahead and did 3.2 (5K) since I was feeling good. Time was 27:51.

It was pretty hot on the tobacco trail today, the Mighty Tim and I rode at a pretty quick pace and I ended up doing 15 miles in about 70 minutes. At the very end of the ride I went to make the turn off back to my car and the bike went out from underneath me. Fair amount of road rash, ribs and shoulder are sore and I pulled my right calf muscle pretty bad. Hope nothing is torn.

I'm not sure at this point if I'm going to attempt Upper Body+ today or not.

Day 59

6:30. I am sore. Plyo and swimming on the schedule for today. Have a good one!

Oh man, Plyo the day after Legs is not pretty. Good workout though, not as sore as I was when I got up. Hoping to hit the pool at lunch.

The pool was a success. I swapped up the breath to stroke ratio from 4:1 to 3:1. This has me taking a breath on both sides which felt unnatural to me, but I started it on the 5th lap and was able to do another 20 using that technique. I felt like I had a lot more air in my lungs and wasn't as fatigued at the end of each lap.

So. 1250 meters today. I'll take it.

Day 58

I'm up. That's all I have to say about that.

Morning workout became morning work, got to the pool at lunch and did 800 meters. Swimming is harder the day after upper body+, but doable. Still sweating the swim portion of the Tri.

Legs for an afternoon workout, good times. I think I like the original P90X workouts better than the plus ones. Maybe I haven't spent enough time with them yet.

Peas out!

Day 57

Well, it's 6:15 instead of 5:30 but I'm up and going for run. Good morning to you.

2 mile run/walk in 18:24, when I was running I was hauling booty! About 3/4 of the way through mile one I got this weird pain in my right hip, walk/run seemed to alleviate it and its mostly gone now. Guess I need to stretch better.

Upper body went well, I'm tired.

Day 56 - Oy

P180X+ has taken a hit over the last couple of weeks. I've got to do better than this. Tomorrow starts phase 3 and it looks to be more intense so maybe it'll hold my attention a little better. Yesterday morning was a hike with the family after which I hit the pool and swam a 1000 meters before mowing the grass. Today I'm feeling pretty weary. Maybe I'll be better after some coffee.

Well, got all motivated and decided to do the cycle and run portions of the Tri back to back. It was 92 degrees and windy as a chihuahua after a 3 bean burritos binge. By the time I got back to the house (15.4 miles in 56 minutes) I wasn't running anywhere. Had myself a nice lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling fan session instead.

It's clear that I have my work cut out for me and I haven't respected this event as much as I should have. And yet, why oh why do I keep watching this and thinking "The swim is only 6 times the distance I'm already having to do... It's only 112 mile bike ride, I've done that before..."

I'm pretty sure there's something very wrong with me.