Spring Preview

It's spring! At least for the past few days it has been. I have decided that riding my bike outside is one of my favorite things in the world. I even did my first solo bike ride last week. I was pretty nervous about riding alone, but it turns out it's not so bad! I rode home with some "big girl" pride that day. Sunday I got out with Jill and Fi for 22 and took advantage of the beautiful day and daylight savings and rode another 12 by myself. Monday I started out by myself again but caught up to Susan and Margo and rode most of the 26 with them.

The only March goal I didn't meet last week was swimming. I figure that is the lesser of the three triathlon evils for me so it's ok. I'll try to get it in this week, but the pool is closed Thurs-Sun, so that means swimming 1:15 tonight. Don't know if that will happen.

This is a good time of year for me. Everything feels good and easy. It's getting warmer and I'm excited to ride/run outside. Hopefully this motivation stays with me over the summer. Swimming is the only thing that has been tough for me to be consistant with lately. Only a few months until I get to swim long course outside!

Hopefully in the next few weeks I can get out to the Gorge and do some long hikes and trail runs. And of course my favorite thing, camp! I LOVE spring!

March Goals

So I am back from my Bahama "business trip" and right back into the swing of things. I didn't train as much as I had hoped to out there, but I did run on the beach (so hard!), and swim in the freezing cold lap pool once. I've been pretty lazy about swimming lately and often talk Jeff out of our evening Tue/Thurs swim. But instead of swimming last night I did make eggplant parmesan with homemade tomato sauce. Sometimes a good meal is much better than exercising, right?

My goal for the rest of the month:
I'm going to put it in writing so I am more likely to do it. I want to try to become more structured in my training weeks. Training for my last three marathons I never missed one scheduled workout. But right now I don't have any "scheduled" training sessions written down and it is much easier for me to blow of what I should be doing. So here it is; for the rest of the month I am going to:

Ride (trainer or outside) > 5 hours a week
Run > 3 hours/week
Swim > 2 hours/week
Strength train > 30 min/week
Yoga/Stretch > 1 hour/week

I think it's completely manageable, and not really that much now that I am looking at it. We'll see how it goes!