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January 12, 2005
Back in the Saddle
I'm quite happy because we resolved a crisis at work early this morning and my run went well. Since it was still warm and daylight, I decided to run outside. I was going to play it by ear...if I still felt congested or burning, I would run an easy hour, but if I wasn't coughing too bad, I would do a tempo run. I ended up doing the latter. I warmed up for 15 minutes, then did 5 sets of 2 minutes on/off, 1 minute on/off, and 30 seconds on/off. At first, my legs felt heavy, but they woke up once I got going. The hardest part was making myself run easy on the 2 minute breaks because I was anticipating the next fast segment. I felt a tad slower but very strong. I finished up with a 15 minute cool down for a total of 66 minutes.
When I got home, I drank water and ate some Frosted Mini-Wheats to regain some energy before setting up my bike on our trainer. I rode for 45 minutes, intermittently hard and easy, while I checked out a Crate and Barrel catalog and watched American Justice on A&E. Now I'm getting ready to eat dinner, since my honey just got home!
Posted by Leilani at January 12, 2005 08:53 PM
Comments
Glad to hear you got to do tempo today! That must mean you're much-improved from that cold. Good!
Take care and keep on recovering!
Meghan
Posted by: Meghan at January 12, 2005 09:37 PM