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This week...
Swim: M-Th at the very least.
DONE I will be in Seattle Fri/Sat for the Joint Mathematics Meetings (this is the biggest maths conference in the world!)
Bike: 3x
only did once, and it was on the recumbent bike at the hotel Run: take at least one day off
done, 5 runs; keep up w/ easy days easy and fast days fast (I ran a good speed workout this AM after not having run yesterday, and my legs were fresh Saturday after not having run Friday!)
I am working on it and experimented a bit last week... and now I have the Daniels book :) M: 8 mi run w/ 6 x 800 @ 6:49 pace (this is 5k pace -4 sec/mi) + 2800 yd swim
T: 12 mi easy run + 2000 yd swim
W: 65 min stairmaster + 4000 yd swim
T: 11 mi run w/ 4 x 400 @ 6:40 pace and 4 x 400 @ 6:35 pace + 2200 yd swim
F: 9.5 mi easy run (Seattle, treadmill)
S: 30 min recumbent bike + 50 min run with a friend along the Seattle waterfront, then 30 min on the treadmill, also easy.
S: off
So, not a horrible start to trying to have a bit more structure. It takes my legs a bit to warm up to do speed... on each of the interval days, I did a bunch of 400s building up to the actual interval pace. That is part of why those runs turned out to be so long: I'd do a mile or two easy, then some descending intervals, then my actual intervals. And on Thursday I was done with the speed by 8 miles, but wanted to run more because I hadn't run the day before. I just read through the Daniels book so now I have some better ideas about how to structure all of this. :P
Also, the Joint Maths Meetings were AWESOME.
I did something yesterday I've never done before. I got back late on Saturday night, and had a big bowl of pasta (I cooked a box of Near East couscous, and ate the whole thing) with pesto. It was half wanting pasta and half eating because I was tired... I had a bowl of it, then ate the other half (which was sort of bingeing). Anyway, usually if I binge eat, I run long the next day because I feel like I need to burn the calories off before they settle on my tummy as fat (yes, I know that's not how it works in real life, but that's what the eating disorder voice tells me). But I woke up at 7 am yesterday and it felt like the middle of the night, and I felt bloated from having eaten a large amount of pasta at 9:30 pm. I also (a) didn't want to run and (b) had run a lot of miles the past 3 days ... but rather than run, I did some work, took a nap, then did more work in the evening. And I wasn't super anxious or stressing about doing that, because somehow I was actually able to believe that I would not turn into the Michelin Wo(man) from eating couscous. And I am proud of myself for thinking more about "what can I do to make me faster" (get more sleep and not run) instead of "how do I ensure that I am super thin?" *bows for applause* LOL, this is sort of a big deal for me. Thanks for letting me share.
This week - run 2 workouts and 3-4 easy runs, bike 3x, swim 4x
maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD