Friday: Legs & Back, Abs
Saturday: Kenpo, swim 1200 y in ~40 mins, 1hr easy spin on trainer
Sunday: sore, tired, not feeling great
The L&B DVD took a toll on me, and I didn't realize how much until Saturday morning. Sure, it hurt while I was doing the workout, but that didn't really set in until the next day. It hurt to sit, walk, climb stairs, and as I found out--running! The entire set of butt, hammie, and inner thigh muscles were too pained to do much of anything! My quads didn't hurt, but I don't know if that was because they got their share of workouts with trail running or if because they weren't targeting in the L&B workout.
And while I thought a 3rd round of Abs in just 5 days would be a killer, my abs aren't bothering me that much.
I woke up Saturday with my big plans for a bike ride (outdoors!) dashed by steady rain. I planned then to run, but once the day got rolling I lost all momentum after a too heavy brekkie and a somewhat forced Kenpo. For once I put the swim ahead of the run and talked myself into going to the pool. I really had to talk myself into it!
And once I got there, it wasn't so bad. I watched the last few minutes of a young girl's swim lesson, saw RM, chatted lack of swim training with him a few minutes (he at least has a race to train for...jealous), then did 6x200 sets. My swim form was shot by 1000y, but I did learn a few things I need to work on: my pull, my breath control, and my focus. Patience! And practice!
The bike was a pure guilty-feeling, energy-burn, sit-and-spin late in the evening. I had fully intended an outdoor ride followed by a run if my legs improved the next morning.
They didn't. And adding to the song of soreness was my back. It wasn't even comfortable to stand up straight. Or sit. Or lean. Or anything. It was like I could feel every muscle, connection, and bone moving against each other and wanting to sag.
The whole day seemed a loss. I moved, thought, and made it ever so slowly through the day. I again got sick feeling after brekkie (again think I ate too much, or maybe too fast) and this lingered the entire day! I felt almost as if I would be sick, almost like a pre-flu feeling without the fevers. To make it worse, I drank too much tea late in the afternoon and started burping up a little.
Ugh. Why was I so tired!? I'm three weeks out from the race, I have a lot of disconnect regarding this. It feels like it has been MONTHS. So I need to be patient with myself. Yet it's discouraging to realize that such a hard race can knock be back so hard. What does that mean for plans later this year and early the next, when I want to stack long races into the year?
And I need to be nice to my body as it adapts to P90X! I'm dismayed with my mental summary of 1200y swimming, 6.6 miles running, and 31 miles biking. But I'm not remembering the 5 HOURS of NEW STRENGTH training I'm putting on myself!! Duh! I had to look at trainingpeaks to figure that out--8:15 of training last week, the majority of it a new activity!
So give it some time, don't get frustrated, and get off your duff in the morning to keep the momentum up.
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