I've got legs . . .
. . . but I'm not sure I know how to use them.
It's been a quiet week so far, which is exactly what I've been needing. Yesterday as I was walking down the stairs out of the apartment, something was different. It took me a couple of steps to figure it out, but the difference was that my legs were no longer complaining as I bent them for each step. Thighs, hamstrings, calves, ankles, arches, knees - they all have been achy over the month or so. Monday was a rest day, and I think that the rest was a very good thing.
On Tuesday morning I dragged myself out of bed early to swing by Redwood City to feed Brandon and Lisa's cat on the way up through Huddart Park to King's Mountain road. I think this is becoming one of my favorite rides - it has a nice hill to wake me up a bit, and it has many scenic vistas ... and I'm all about the scenic vistas. Maybe that's why I have such a non-thing for swimming; no vistas whatsoever are to be had in the pool - nothing to see but lane markers and all of those forbidden air-bubbles generated by my less-than-stellar arm strokes. I need to get one of those swiMP3 players, maybe with an audiobook or something, to keep me better entertained. And running: sure, maybe more vistas, but they go by too slowly to completely disengage my brain from the knowledge that running for more than five miles or so is, well, not really that fun, yet - maybe it will be sometime in the future.
Hmm...this is sounding a bit whiny? No, I'm really having a good time, and looking forward to the days when I actually look forward to swimming and running as much as I do biking. Because people do, right? Yes, crazy people.
We had a fun/not-fun workout today at the track. The best/worst was a drill titled "Wolves and Camels" - you see, wolves run in packs, and camels have humps. Makes perfect sense, right? We divided ourselves into groups of five, roughly based on speed. Somehow I found myself in the supposed 2nd-fastest group ... which ended up running further, I think, than the speedy people, maybe. Big mistake/good choice. The drill is this - you run in a line for 2 easy minutes followed by a hard minute, the first person in line gets to set the pace for the group, and the group has to stay together. This drill definitely got me out of my comfort zone - it was very tough to keep up on some of the "hard" minutes, but I was able to, mostly, until the last set, when I got dropped pretty badly. It was worst/best because it was pretty tough, but I could also see how this type of work could maybe, someday, result in me getting a bit faster ... just have to be willing to push a bit harder, I guess.
Thanks for reading, and thanks also for all of those donations to a great cause!
It's been a quiet week so far, which is exactly what I've been needing. Yesterday as I was walking down the stairs out of the apartment, something was different. It took me a couple of steps to figure it out, but the difference was that my legs were no longer complaining as I bent them for each step. Thighs, hamstrings, calves, ankles, arches, knees - they all have been achy over the month or so. Monday was a rest day, and I think that the rest was a very good thing.
On Tuesday morning I dragged myself out of bed early to swing by Redwood City to feed Brandon and Lisa's cat on the way up through Huddart Park to King's Mountain road. I think this is becoming one of my favorite rides - it has a nice hill to wake me up a bit, and it has many scenic vistas ... and I'm all about the scenic vistas. Maybe that's why I have such a non-thing for swimming; no vistas whatsoever are to be had in the pool - nothing to see but lane markers and all of those forbidden air-bubbles generated by my less-than-stellar arm strokes. I need to get one of those swiMP3 players, maybe with an audiobook or something, to keep me better entertained. And running: sure, maybe more vistas, but they go by too slowly to completely disengage my brain from the knowledge that running for more than five miles or so is, well, not really that fun, yet - maybe it will be sometime in the future.
Hmm...this is sounding a bit whiny? No, I'm really having a good time, and looking forward to the days when I actually look forward to swimming and running as much as I do biking. Because people do, right? Yes, crazy people.
We had a fun/not-fun workout today at the track. The best/worst was a drill titled "Wolves and Camels" - you see, wolves run in packs, and camels have humps. Makes perfect sense, right? We divided ourselves into groups of five, roughly based on speed. Somehow I found myself in the supposed 2nd-fastest group ... which ended up running further, I think, than the speedy people, maybe. Big mistake/good choice. The drill is this - you run in a line for 2 easy minutes followed by a hard minute, the first person in line gets to set the pace for the group, and the group has to stay together. This drill definitely got me out of my comfort zone - it was very tough to keep up on some of the "hard" minutes, but I was able to, mostly, until the last set, when I got dropped pretty badly. It was worst/best because it was pretty tough, but I could also see how this type of work could maybe, someday, result in me getting a bit faster ... just have to be willing to push a bit harder, I guess.
Thanks for reading, and thanks also for all of those donations to a great cause!
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