Weekend workout recap:
On Saturday, I swam 1000 yards in 20 minutes. Either I’ve just gotten faster somehow, or the pool is short. I dunno. Breakdown was 300 yards warmup, 10×50 with 10 seconds recovery, and 200 yards cooldown. Lap swim hours on the weekend are limited — 5:00 – 6:00 — but I was the only one there at 5. One other woman came in halfway through my swim. They have open swim hours earlier in the afternoon; I’ll have to check it out and see if lap swimming is doable during those hours.
I drove home, changed, and immediately jumped on the treadmill for 4 miles in 48:00. Must’ve looked like I was extremely sweaty, since my hair was all wet! I wore the running skirt I got at Luke’s Locker last weekend before the half marathon; it was my first run with the skirt. I had some doubts about how well it would work, since the shorts underneath were not very long and, as previously mentioned, I don’t have particularly skinny thighs. I even took a pair of shorts just in case I needed to change mid-run, but I’m happy to report that the skirt felt surprisingly good! Not sure I’d do a long run in it, but for shorter runs, sure. So the biggest problem in the run turned out to be not the skirt, but the sketchy treadmill in my apartment complex gym. I can’t explain it, but it just felt weird.
Today I was supposed to bike 30 miles, and I had plenty of time to do that — but only before 11 a.m. since I had committments from then until after dark. Alas, the weather was still bleak, cold, and wet and I couldn’t bike! Argh! Of course the weather was finally looking good (sun, oh glorious sun!) at 5:30 when I got home — with not enough time before dark to do a bike ride. So at the suggestion of Steeeve, I substituted a 6-mile run with a pickup towards the end. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to the sketchy treadmill, so I did 12+ mind-numbing laps of my apartment complex. (When I buy a house, I am SO making sure that it has access to at least a 3-mile route.) Anyway, one lap of my apartment is ever-so-close to a half mile — it’s 0.49 miles. So what I really did is 6 x 0.98 miles, plus a little bit at the end to make it an even 6 miles. Splits for the 0.98 mile repeats were 10:33, 10:41, 10:43, 10:22, 9:32, and 10:17, with 1:10 for an additional 0.12 at the very end. Good run, and the laps actually weren’t quite as annoying as I thought they’d be.
Weekend non-workout recap coming later…