Last week's goals: swim x 3: FAIL. 2 only
bike x 2: eeh, 1 lunch ride + 1 after work ride for <21k total = FAIL.
run x 5: win with 6
core/strength x 4: win
I went from feeling quite strong on a 2h45m rooty, rocky trail run with 1,500ft of elevation gain Saturday to completely wiped out and barely able to kick my ass out the door for a 12k run on a flat rail trail on Sunday. I'm blaming the cold I've been fighting, missing my iron supplements on Saturday (plus my 2nd dose on Friday), and horomones - I always feel very weak in the day or two before my cycle. Was just as exhausted yesterday, though I did manage another 12k road run.
Of course I didn't get any photos of the technical bits (as I was trying not to land on my head), but you can see that things are getting greener. This was Saturday at
the Hydrocut, a local system of mountain bike trails with 25km of singletrack full of log piles, rock gardens and gorgeous flow. I'd been out on my mountain bike there before (despite being woefully underqualified to ride most of it), but this was my first run there - definitely won't be my last.
This week's goals: swim x 2
bike x 1
run x 4
core/strength x 4
My husband's birthday is tomorrow so we'll be going out to dinner with my mum tomorrow evening to celebrate - no way I'll be training when we get home or bringing my bike to work, but I hope to bring some running kit in with me to get a quick trot in on my lunch break.
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