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June 14, 2005
Gross Officemate (Me)
I am the worst triathlete EVER. Everything I read says you should spend the most time on your weakest sport which makes a lot of sense. (Note, that statement has to be altered to be plural and read weakest sportS-which for me would be swimming and biking.) However, I still continue to plan my workouts around running and quite honestly plan to continue to do so. I am never going to miss a day of running to do one of the other sports. It’s just not going to happen. This was just something I was thinking about as I tried to plan a workout schedule. There are some really cool brick workouts where you bike 3 miles, then run a mile, then repeat this cycle a few times. But I can’t run every day, and if I run as part of this weird brick workout I won’t get in my normal run. So what to do? We’ll see…but this really drives home the fact that you can’t train for everything at once without something suffering.
This morning I ran for 20 minutes. This was my first time running two days in a row in two months. I found some bouncy astro turf to run on so it was cushony AND flat for about 10 minutes of my run which was fabulous. Then I took my bike out for a leisurely 20 minute bike ride. Unfortunately, I was stressing too much about work to really take my time or get in a good bike ride so I finally decided to ease my mental stress by ditching the bike and just getting my butt into the office. At the last minute I threw some workout clothes into my bag in case I wanted to go to the gym after work.
It turns out the gym clothes were a good idea b/c I unexpectedly had an extra long lunch today. I speed lifted, did sit-ups, and foam rollered. AND, this is really gross, but I didn’t shower. It was actually sweating less in the air conditioned gym working out than I was when walking outside (which is how I spend a lot of my day). I was running out of time and I basically wear jeans and a t-shirt (and flip-flops or sneakers) to work so I decided to simply not shower. It’s the best decision I ever made since I was disgusting by the time I walked the 10 minutes back to my office. Going to gym probably HELPED my appearance and grossness b/c I had the chance to reapply deodorant and comb my hair!
Last note-my whole body is sore. I know I said I had “tightness” in my bad leg earlier this week-but I think I simply forgot what it is like to be sore from exercise! My other leg is too. I am not used to so many different kinds of exercises! I don’t think the swimming is making anything sore, but the bike riding on Saturday and these ab exercises we were doing in class with the medicine ball definitely did. Seriously though, I have to spend more time on the bike. Leilani pointed me towards a local tri training group so I might try one of their group rides Thursday morning just to see if I am doing anything weirdly wrong, and to see how fast I should be riding on days when I am just trying to get miles in.
Posted by Audrey at June 14, 2005 07:55 PM
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Eeeww, gross! That really isn't too bad. I've been known to go shopping after some long, sweaty, gross workouts and try things on, but not buy them. I seriously feel sorry for the people who end up buying them after I've tried them on in all my funky glory!
I don't know where "runner back" came from. Our group says it. We may have gotten it from shouting "car up" and "car back". I've also heard some of the bikers yell up to me "biker back". I dunno, maybe it's my area.
By the way, I've seen that your family is in NJ, what part?
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at June 14, 2005 09:40 PM
Ok, Blondie is really gross! :D
I'm pretty sure there's no way I could go back to work after working out if I didn't shower. I think I would be sent home. Hey, wait a minute...
Posted by: Jon in Michigan at June 15, 2005 06:49 AM