Sunday, February 22, 2009

When Things Get Off Track BIG TIME

While I have not blogged about my exercise in over 10 days, this does not mean I have not exercised in 10 days. I have gone off track a bit, and this is due to having to balance biking and running together, along with the strength training videos, sometimes all in the same day.

This past week I have discovered some serious obstacles, as follows:

  1. There are days where I do am scheduled strength train, run and bike in the same day.
  2. The bikes at work (Johnson Gym) are limited to 30 minutes and I have yet to get more than 6 miles in that 30 minutes.
  3. As my running times increase (now 50 minutes during the week), I can’t do that at work/lunch breaks due to time limits, I do that in the mornings, therefore needing to find alternate times to do my strength videos.
  4. I worry that as I’m still trying to adjust to these schedules I could suffer from over training as I struggle to find rest days.

    This past week – I had no days to do the strength videos (that I recall) and did do three runs and two gym time bike rides – still five cardio workouts. I was seriously off track last week.

    I continue to work on a reasonable schedule and not let this get to me.

    Today is a new day – today I did a 21 mile easy bike ride. And will continue to strive to my goals of the half marathon April 18th (eight-weeks away) and the Santa Fe Century May 17th (12-weeks away).

Today’s accomplishments: Bike easy: 21.15 miles, 1 hour, 33:28 minutes, 4.25min/mile.

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