Finally something that felt like a "big weekend"

Tuesday BIKE 45 mins trainer, short COMMUTE, and PT
Wednesday BIKE COMMUTE 9.4 miles
Thursday BIKE COMMUTE 9.4 miles
                WALK/RUN with 7 1-minute intervals
Friday Rested
Saturday SWIM 60 mins and 2700 yards
             BIKE 60 mins indoors
             WALK total of 4.8 miles in 4 sessions
Sunday BIKE 60 mins indoors
             WALK/RUN with 4 or 5 short intervals, two walks and total of 5.7 miles

There's a lot of numbers going on this week, I'm happy to report NUMERICS below.

Quick Summary. The indoor bikes are super easy, move-the-hip, burn-some-energy sessions. I'm guessing not many miles and not really counting them. Yet.

The Thursday run was supposed to be a swim day too, instead I moved the swim to Friday and squeezed in what was going to be a 30 min walk-with-run in the afternoon. I ended up doing 60 mins! Thought I'd do 5 intervals, thought I'd ended up with 6, surprised to find 7 in the Garmin. HR was great at 128-130, cadence low 170's, and the pace 8:45m/m. Another surprise. The next day my back was tired, but the hip OK.

Friday I skipped the swim. LayZee.

Saturday I made up for it by getting a FULL HOUR of swim in! TH had a swim meet, I was in a lane with two other steady long distance swimmers, and so I was motivated. The female swimmer was slightly slower than me so I got a rest at each wall. I just took it slow and for the first time this year followed a plan from my Triathletes swim book. And this was the first swim with the fins, my left ankle felt it first, gotta build that up.

Sunday I did two long walks, the second one I brought the dog as sort of a brake on myself. I knew she wouldn't last more a few intervals, and sure enough that's all I got out of her. And she got me to not speed walk the entire thing. I'm only a few sessions into running and I've already outpaced her. The intervals I did felt OK, my lower back is still tired is all. The hip -- doing OK. I'm logging it as "barely noted" in my symptoms log.

After the bike on Sunday (in the evening) I pulled out my 2015 and 2017 blog books to see what I was doing back then. In 2015 I was undergoing tests for the compression fractures in my back and running 50-65 miles a week. In 2017 I was preparing for tests with Dr L for the hip, running maybe 20-25 miles a week.

I found instances of hip popping in 2015. I'll never know when  or how it all started I guess. But I also found that my last real "run" was around April 1st, so I'm coming up one year. This coming weekend is a Blue Moon on the 31st, it will be Easter weekend, I'll be home with family, great time to start being a runner again.

NUMERICS!
SWIM 4250 yards, including at T-test and a 1 hour swim
BIKE (indoors) 39 miles
RUN 1.0 mile, in 1 minute intervals
BIKE COMMUTE 22.8 miles
WALKING 26.1 (ugh so close to marathon)