BIKE 45 mins indoors
RUN 20 mins 1.7 miles, ran about 0.6? Maybe more?
PT with JH
BIKE COMMUTE 3 miles (two trips to Fopa)
I used to do bricks on Tuesdays. That was my IM plan schedule -- a Tuesday brick. So it seemed natural to do one today. It was rainy and cold (cold because it was raining, really) so the ride was indoors, easy, a few pushes, but not a pain cave type session.
Then the run! I kept the bike shorts and added a long sleeve tech, hat but no gloves. And my phone with the new cadence app. I didn't want the app, I wanted the Believer song. I started off with a walk up the "hill" towards Compton, but thought I was kinda warmed up enough after the bike so I ran a little earlier in the session than usual. Or should. But it felt so good! I'd pick a stop sign or marker and run to it. I loop played Believer. Didn't like the tempo changes. Monitored how everything felt head to toe. I did two loops of the track at the school, and came back. And it felt so good.
I recharged the Garmin yesterday and after the change it locked up. I forgot to connect it to GPS to reset the time, so it didn't get updated until I started the Run program. I didn't know until the run was done that it logged the run as happening yesterday. And I didn't know until I linked up to Connect that it didn't get any interval data. So I don't know how many or how long my run intervals came in as.
In one way, it was nice to have a lack of data -- I just ran. In more ways, I kinda needed that data so I can gauge and monitor progress.
I met with JH later in the morning, and he asked about running, and I admitted to 20 mins and 1.7 miles....maybe 1/3rd of it running...? I must not have been convincing, and if I'm honest with myself I probably ran at least half of it. I said I could have run all morning. He pointed out that I need to "stay hungry" and "build the sandwich layer by layer". Not all at once. I said I was feeling the itch, thinking about race calendars. He said to avoid them. He really is like that "good" angel on my shoulder. The voice you should listen to, not the one spewing "run all morning" and "REGISTER"!
He's slowly building up my exercises. Same WU of adductor and abductor, same ball-between-the-knees and lift one leg, but adding on more reps and switching legs q1 instead of q3. Same feet-on-the-yoga-ball with lifting each leg also more reps. And the hamstring "pull-the-belly-button" up which I just love for the shaking leg feeling. Last session he added in going out only halfway extension instead of near-straight leg, and I loved that. Today when he took the ball I mentioned "no halves?!" and he said no, just resting. (The 4 letter word!). I did get my half-sies and and I got EXTRA of them!! WHOOP!
There was another athlete working out near my, doing grapevines and skips and the like. I was jealous, he was bouncing and moving upright and back and forth, while I felt leagues behind doing floor work. JH stopped him twice -- once to admonish on a missed workout (followed by a private comment to me about putting the phone away and focusing) and again to tell him to really do the excercises not just the motions. Again, JEALOUS. I love the whip crack, would I like it as much cracked on me? Or do I just want the challenge of keeping it from cracking one me?
Comments and thoughts and answers from run:
Q I felt like my landing food was "stomping" the ground instead of bouncing
A I might be landing too far forward and braking through the leg
Q I lost form when I slowed down, like to approach an intersection
A Distraction from form, and see above
Q When I felt like I was twisting and running "ducky", I focused on my knee pulling up and through from behind me
A Focus instead on the big toe, flexing the foot, and this will encourage the proper landing too.
I love that he answers and tolerates all my questions :)
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