Four Days Left

This week was probably the toughest with the holidays and traveling to get in the runs but they are done, some better than the others but I am very happy with where my running has come since the first of December. I have built a good base and actually started to enjoy running a bit more since are breakup post Ironman. We have four more days left and really it does not seem like that much of big deal as I am off all week and will have no trouble getting them completed.

Christmas day was by far the worst of the month, not that it was Christmas, I was at my in-laws in Dubuque with no treadmill available, it was sleeting, slick and hilly a great combination for me ending up on my on my ass. I did feel quite a bit of an accomplishment when I got back as I was glad to be done and it was a bit of a challenge.

Since Rick and I really have nothing else to do we decided to have a little challenge for January as well. We find it fun, motivating and a bit of a personal challenge as well as holding each other accountable. So for January we are going to swim 50,000 yards. I have added the counter on the right side of the blog to keep track.

Today was another solid day, had to do Computrainer class today as I was out of town yesterday, followed that up with a 6.5 mile run and had masters class this afternoon where I was able to get in 3850 yards. Not bad for a Sunday in December in my opinion.

At masters I was really annoyed as the coach was giving me static for comparing her workouts to what we were doing last year with one of the coaches that she coaches with. She was actually quite defensive which was strange as I wasn't criticizing just saying that it was nice to get in a couple hard longer sets. I like doing some harder sets a couple of times a month. I know folks say you shouldn't go hard this time of year as you will burn out, I disagree I think you should concentrate on form and technique in all three sports during this time of year but you need to go hard every once in awhile to remind yourself what is like to push yourself. That is why it is good to throw in some 5K's in your run plan this time of year, you push yourself but in a much shorter distance. Just my opinion and really that is all that matters as this my blog!