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Bouldering, & races that are piling up

Friday, 05 August 2011 | 05:07 pm

…but not really! Well, sort of.

I just ran a 5k race last night (yes, my first midweek race; in the evening, even!) and I’m just adding that onto my schedule on my sidebar. Then I have to go to Athlinks and add that race (so it can be included in my Results archive). Which means I have another race report that I need to write! LOL

Don’t get me wrong, I love writing race reports, in fact, I need to write them down for posterity (and mostly for my reference), but now I have to finish writing the Redondo Beach Tri report, and start penning the Seattle 1/2 report before I move on to my 5K report. Did I mention I have a 10k in about a fortnight? If I can get these reports done by then, I’ll be squared away… :D

In other news, PALA week 3 is going well! This week, I did a combination of climbing (indoor bouldering at the Hangar 18 gym in Hawthorne, CA) and running (yesh! Other than my 5k, I did a Tuesday run. :) ). I think I might have overdone it, though because by Wednesday evening (hours after only a 30-minute indoor climbing session) I was so pooped and was sore all over! My body, I think, was letting me know to slow down and take it easy; not that I heeded its call, though (see: 5k race above). Still, I gave myself a much needed Epsom salt soak a few hours before the race and I was somewhat fresh by 6:15PM ready to (not) get a personal best :-P

But on that soreness note, I’m pondering whether I should skip the climbing sesh today and just do something nice and slow, like the P90x Stretching video. Hmmm… *ponder*

Anyway, have a wonderful weekend!

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Weekend Training (28 Aug)

Monday, 30 August 2010 | 11:42 pm

Saturday (August 28th)
Long run; 9mi. Walk 2mi. Gear used: VFF, compression calf sleeves, Amphipod belt. I guess my body was still recovering from whatever I had on Wednesday because I felt rather fatigued in the beginning of this run (and at the tail end). Then again, it could just be the mileage! This is the furthest I’ve gone wearing Vibram Five Fingers and so far, so good (except for getting tired, rather than feeling energized with my previous runs). Then again, I also hardly stop now (i.e., don’t do my regular run-walk intervals) so that could be it, too! LOL. So, let’s review this again: beginning of run, tired; mid-run, fine; end of run, tired. Yep, that makes loads of sense.

Sunday (August 29th)
Strength Training, 38 mins. Skipped the bike training ride and did some resistance training instead. Worked with 12lbs weights and did not finish the P90x Shoulders and Arms video! I need lighter dumbbells >_<

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Midweek Training Mashup

Saturday, 21 August 2010 | 07:30 pm

OK, I’m liking this mashup thing so I’ll do one post a week to my midweek training activities, and then another for my weekend training… until my schedule clears up a bit, anyway and I’ll have time to post here as often as I have in the past. :)

Monday (August 16th)
It was a rest day but I ended up running 3 miles with my sis @ our usual Beach route. It wasn’t a bad (barefoot) run, either — no recurrence of my right arch pain but there were some muscle creaks and niggles elsewhere that I didn’t expect.

Tuesday (August 17th)
Just as a precaution, I decided to skip the run and do a lap swim. Though I was only able to do one drill, I feel like I’m getting stronger swimming 100m with hardly any rest between laps. Workout was: 100m warm up, 5 x 50m drill, 100m kickboard, 100m cool down

Wednesday (August 18th)
Ugh. Another skipped workout day.

Thursday (August 19th)
This was the day I downloaded that cool app, MyFitnessPal and due to work, I ended up doing indoor cardio (spinning) for 35 minutes. It was a good one, too as I began sweating profusely five minutes into the workout (and until the end!)

Friday (August 20th)
Combined cardio and strength training by spinning for 15 minutes and then doing the P90x Back and Biceps routine for 23 minutes. I only did that much because my arms began to feel like jelly! In hindsight, I’m glad I only did that much because as I did my long run training today, my arms were so sore!

Anyway, despite the fact that I’m weeks behind my marathon (and triathlon) training, I think I’m progressing as far as building my fitness back up — it’s not a great improvement, but it’s better than my previous training regimen from three years ago (i.e., non-existent!) :)

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