Wednesday, April 23, 2008

mid-week leg hangover..

Well its mid week and I have done some short swimming, easy spinning and some running yesterday, all which seem to have told me I have not recovered from the RAGE. My legs still feel heavy on the bike and the run turn over and actually still feel sore while running, mostly my ankles and Achilles/calf tendon areas. I added some core work back in to the mix this week as I have been slacking in that department.

Work has been extremely busy and stressful so that is not helping either and for some reason I find myself not able to get to sleep before 10pm the last couple of days. That actually started last week but it was because I wanted to stay up a little and just read a magazine, no TV, no music, just read and now I guess I tricked my body into staying up just a little later which this week kind of sucks because I’m tired.

Training the rest of this week will be fun as there is a long run on the books and some biking. I have been wondering about my overall swim time at RAGE as I was not able to get a good reading on what my swim pace really was due to the long run from the water’s edge and the included time of the T1. This is a little worry some as I do have a set swim pace/time I would like to hit for CdA just like everyone else out there so it looks like I will have to do some sort of a swim time trial.

Time to work…

Rockon’

5 comments:

S. Baboo said...

dead legs aren't much of a surprise considering the race, you'll probably be back by the end of the week.

Molly said...

Glad to know that I am not the only one getting in bed at 10!
I know you will get those legs back and the swimming down too!
Take Care!

Bigun said...

CdA swim for JT: 1) get in water. 2) Start swimming. 3) Go until you reach the swim exit. 4) Important - Don't kick Bigun in the head!

triguyjt said...

read your race report on previous post...congrats on that first half...

old school is cool...i go back to the days when race fields were so small..that you just shouted out your number when you went through tranny's... no chips..

cool to you guys out there that seem to have alot of fun racing and training...

the best

teacherwoman said...

Oh boy. I have been struggling with a lack of sleep this week too... just so much going on at work and it consumes the mind... Does no good for training.

I hope your weekend was good! :)