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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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Swim Training (1000m Wed; 450m Fri)

Friday, 16 April 2010 | 12:01 pm

I went to do my lunchtime workout on Wednesday — 1000m swim! I was particularly encouraged to workout by my “new” virtual training buddy Sheryl! Yesh, we have a shareable Google calendar and each entered our training timetables into it. It’s one of the better ideas that either of us had had (yet)! LOL. Anyway we’re hoping that this will help us get back to fitness and obtain the “personal records” we crave for this year: me for the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon and Sheryl for the California Int’l Marathon. I think that by being accountable to someone else’s training, you’ll find renewed vigour to your own daily schedule and you definitely won’t feel so alone when doing it! Plus, if either of you skip a workout, it’s METAL SPATULA (1:09) time! ;)

Unfortunately, that being said, I skipped my scheduled “Strength and Stretch: P90X” workout last night. Eek. But I have two good excuses:

  1. Sisy was hungry and I had to make her and my little bro supper
  2. Sisy wanted to go swim at 6:30AM on Friday (today)

So what does a good li’l sis do? Comply. Resistance was futile. ;) Checkout the delicious (yet easy) meal I made for them last night:

Marinated chicken over tortilla strips

Marinated chicken over tortilla strips

I was literally about to begin the P90X workout when my sis came home and forget to grab some take out. >_< Thank goodness that I had just gone to the market to buy food; otherwise, we would’ve been eating my “nuked salmon” dish.

In any case, since I was able to go swim with her at six-friggin-thirty this morning, I guess missing my workout last night wasn’t so bad. It turned out great that we were there when the pool just opened as there were only a handful of (senior citizen) swimmers and I got my *own* lane! At the same time, I hadn’t swam that early in the morning (and was still too sleepy!) and the fact that I have my long run training tomorroz (17 miles!), I ended up doing some sort of mini-workout with 100m drill and some paddle-board exercises (450m total for nearly 25 minutes).

Overall, a great workout week. Two and a half stars on my calendar and one big star will be slapped (for sure) after my long run tomorrow.

TGIF!

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