Yoga!

Highly beneficial 9am local yoga.  I think I am making it a regular feature of my Thursday mornings this semester, it seems a worthwhile indulgence.  I had an unrealistic and ambitious plan to get up really early and run first, but it took forever to fall asleep last night, and there was no way I was dragging myself out of bed in time - also, lots of lunges yesterday left muscles very sore.  Stretchy yoga is good for that!

1.5hr yoga

Beast!

Good exercise morning (now I need to refocus for afternoon teaching). 1hr Beast boot camp (much of it is the kind of thing I like and do regularly enough that it's fine, but there are a few things that are horrible when I go back for the first time - in particular, today, a low bear crawl on the track where we were also supposed to be pushing/pulling along 25lb plates with each hand, alternating going backwards and forwards - horrible!). A bit later, gentle yoga.

1hr boot camp
1hr gentle yoga

Benchmark hills!

DISGUSTINGLY humid. However, a very high-quality workout, all zone 2/3 and felt strong.

3 x upper loop (1.41mi) + 1.13mi. each way to park = c. 6.5mi.

Just using Timex Ironman watch and Suunto HR monitor - I need to get a new Garmin...

12:29 (to park)
27:20 (#1 14:51)
42:36 (#2 15:16)
57:24 (#3 14:48)
1:10:49 (13:25 home)

Spin!

The weather continues to be ridiculously beautiful, though that also means that the bike path on the way home from the gym is unpleasantly congested.  My legs felt tired in spin class, and I will take a rest day either tomorrow or Monday, haven't  yet decided (partly depends how I feel when I wake up tomorrow).

1hr spin
1hr restorative yoga
10 miles bike

Run!

Very lovely one too, though it was warmer than I imagined (pretty much 80, but low humidity, so not too bad). I decided that I am going to please myself today and do whatever exercise I want, i.e. run AND spin! I do need to get quite a bit of work done, as I'm going to a long opera in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon that will knock that out as a work session...

Ran over to Central Park and did 2 x the little hilly upper loop - I am resolved to get over there more regularly, it's a good workout.

c. 5 miles

Yoga!

Extremely beneficial local yoga. Thursday morning at 9am is a good time for me to do a class - my teaching week always feels rather intense and is largely compressed into the Monday-to-Wednesday span, so this morning has slightly the feel of weekend, though of course I still have various campus things to do.

1.5hr yoga

Run!

Just a little one - first two miles easy, last mile harder

c. 3 miles (32:00)

9/11

It is always uncanny to have these beautiful clear blue skies on September 11.  I had a gorgeous run down to the Boat Basin and back, just very easy - benefit of doing a very long slow triathlon is that your legs aren't nearly as sore as they would be after racing a marathon...

c. 4 miles easy (46:00)

Best race day ever!

It is a remarkable race.  More beautiful scenery than you can possibly imagine; devastatingly gorgeous lake swims, trail runs often with nobody in sight and panoramic views across the Shawangunks.  ONE THOUSAND FEET OF CLIMBING in the last five miles of the bike course.  (That, I could do without!)  Then the bike's done and it's all running and swimming all the time, just how I like it.  Best of all, I made a new friend on the course - we raced together almost all day, as we were evenly paced on everything, and I hope we'll be able to find an endurance event next year that we can race together again.  Altogether glorious!

30mi bike, 4.5mi run, 1.1mi swim, 6.5mi (?) run, .6mi swim, 8.5mi run, .5mi swim, final precipitously steep CLIMB up to the Skytop Tower Shawangunk Ridge. c. 8:20?

Tiny run!

c. 2 miles easy

BDOE

Another blissful day of exercise! For various reasons that have to do with the different stages assorted work things are at, I am much more relaxed than usual about having true down-time; it is good. Didn't want to do too much, so rode my bike to Chelsea Piers and went to lovely "gentle yoga" class at 9:30 (I like this teacher a lot, haven't been to her class for a while - when I'm very busy, I prefer more bang-of-the-buck intense exercise classes! - but it's really a good one, and more in the spirit of mindful yoga than some of the very strenuous yoga classes will be), then had a short swim.

Walked over to the bike store and picked up some CO2 cartridges for myself and L. (she's flying, can't take 'em on the plane), a couple other bicycle-related sundries, then walked back over to the west side highway and rode my bike home. Lazy day!

I'll run 30 minutes easy tomorrow morning; L. and G. will pick me up in the car tomorrow afternoon around 2:30 and we'll drive to New Paltz. Hopefully it will be a great day - if course limits are strictly enforced, there is a chance I will get pulled, but I am resigned to that if it happens, and have promised myself I will take it with a good grace. I think they will be able to give us a bit of leeway, certainly that was how it worked last year...

10 miles bike
1hr gentle yoga
1000 yards swim (3 x 100 breathing every 3, 5, 7; 100 RaLaCuBa, 100 free; 4 x 100 drill-swim by 25 [thumbs-and-salute, front scull, fists, finger-drag]; 100 IM)

Run!

Nice little run, but I am SO ready for humidity and temperature to drop. It's disgusting out there, as if you could grab fists full of air and squeeze the water out of them with your bare hands!

c. 4 miles (some short pickups at the end), 43:00

Swim!

Very happy the pool is open again. Exercise volume sharply down now for race week - will try and have a couple more small technique-oriented swims before Sunday.

1200 yards

3 x 100 breathing every 3, 5, 7
4 x 100 odds drill evens free (RaLaCuBa)
3 x 100 drill-swim by 25 (front scull, fists, finger-drag)
200 IM (one-arm fly)

Blissful day of exercise!

Yesterday I was for some reason just phenomenally lazy (it was a bit muggy, and I couldn't persuade myself to get out the door for a run), but today I've had a blissful day of exercise again. Excellent Beast class, excellent spin.

10mi round trip bike
1hr Beast boot camp
.75hr spin

Blissful day of exercise!

Can't explain why I am so guiltlessly doing what I like all day, except as to say that I'm in state of suspension before school starts, hard to concentrate on other work and yet not a good deal to do for my classes, given they're both things I've taught before.  On list of things to be grateful for, let's put high up (1) the fact that I can chew on the right side of my mouth again for the first time since dental woes began in late July and (2) the copy shop has handed over to me the originals of the two course readers I had begun to fear I would have to reproduce from scratch! 

Rode my bike down to Chelsea Piers at 7:30 for notional 8am Beast, but G. was nowhere in sight, so I did a very good workout on the sand volleyball court with another "cadet" (the sort of hard workout I can't really force myself to do on my own but that is easy if there is someone else for me to boss around as well as myself!).  Had some breakfast in the cafe, then 10 am spin; left as stretching commenced, had super-swift shower and change into dry gear for 11am restorative yoga, which is more like a meditation class than an exercise class & which is freezingly cold if you're in sweat-soaked spin gear.  Then went for lunch at cheap lunch place and read an old Lee Child novel for a while back at the Chelsea Piers cafe (was leaving coast clear at home for the woman who cleans my apartment - she usually comes on a Tuesday, but had to do Saturday for some reason this week).

10 miles round-trip bike
1hr boot camp
1hr spin
1hr restorative yoga