Week summary, trip home for all the birthdays

Weds NOTHING! Icy, drove in
Thursday RUN 54 mins and 6.3 mi, no HR data
                BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles
Friday SWIM 48 mins and 2000y
Saturday RUN 70 mins and 7.1 miles, ave HR 132
Sunday RUN 80 mins and 8 miles, ave HR 129
Monday nothing

Another ketch-up post.
The weather finally turned more favorable on Thursday, I was able to bike in and Puppy was happy. For the run, I wore the HR strap but it slipped down my torso early and after a mile of trying to fix it I gave up. Cadence lock.

Friday was one of those almost-didn't-happens. I woke up to rain and when walking the dog there was thunder. This means the pool was probably going to be closed. So I changed my plans, dropped the dog off first then went to Target for some bday shopping. The whole time, I was looking ahead to the drive north to home, waiting for my overfilled tummy to settle, and thinking about the swim. Would I, or wouldn't I? I left Target and headed east on Chippewa....came to the Macklind intersection...turned left!...and went to the pool!! Joke of the day on the dry erase board -- something about a grape wining about not achieving grapeness, haha! My swim was a WU then 6x150 alternating hard/easy/hard and easy/hard/easy. I did the latter with the pool buoy. True to the Suit Up, Show Up, Something Will Happen I ran into SamM finishing her swim as I was starting :)   The swim felt good, not sure the 'hard' was fast but it was 'harder'. And my meditation goal for the day was water. Fitting, with the rain, the swim, and then as a topper I noted that three of the pool exercise balls stacked in the rack near the deep and were arranged as a water molecule.  Two red hydrogens and one yellow oxygen!

Saturday was one of those runs in which there was a stiff, cold, western wind. Meaning that if I ran up the road I'd have 22 mins of tailwind, 20-ish mins of cross wind, then 22 mins of headwind. Yuck. And my stomach was blurby from eating too much of sis's cabbage last night! So I decided to map this run to make me happy. Usually I tell myself to Suck It Up and Embrace The Suck. But this time I ran out a mile, turned back, and did a total of 3 such loops. Warm, cold, warm, cold, warm, cold, with many threatening and gassy blurps. I started in the dark but eventually the sun came up, meaning that a bad blurp could lead to an exposed....ah....GI dump? Thankfully I didn't have to do that. I was able to have my dump (a T6) after stretching. Yay.

Sunday I waited later in the morning and there was only a mild SSE wind. Part way in I got a text but ignored it. Did the full "T" to get 8 miles. Got home, saw the text was invitation to join Jess at church. HURRY!

Both runs felt great, kept them purposefully EASY. And the HR reflects it.

As for my left hip, time to call for an eval. It hurt to run, to sit, to drive, to lie down.  Ugh.

NUMERICS
Swim 3600 yards
Bike commute 9.2 miles
Run 27.4 miles