The 50 Hour Work Week

I just finished reading my last blog....and I decided I'm going to not be quite so negative and hard on myself this time! I just finished a 50ish hour work week....just b/c I work part-time doesn't mean I don't work hard, and yes it means that next week I only have 22 hours scheduled (amen!). When I think about last week in terms of workouts it seems pretty lousy, but when I think of what I squeezed in to a busy work week, I think I did pretty darn good.

Monday: I rode my bike to work. My new commuter bike is sooooo sweet. I'll try to post a picture of it this week. I have it all decked out with a sweet light, a rack on the back and bags to go with, pink handlebar tape. (YES!). Riding to work is definately my new favorite thing, and it's like sneaking in my workout and saving money and our dear planet all at the same time. It is about 9.5 (so I always round up to 10 miles) to and from, and takes me about 35 minutes. I try and leave my home at 6am so I have time to do a quick sponge bath/change/coffee intake before I head out to my peeps.

Tuesday: I met up with the ol' running club and ran a solid 5ish miles. Coach Ray always makes me run hard.

Wednesday: I got to go to my favorite spin class with Ms. Nancy. I always finish this class completely DRAINED. She knows how to work us HARD.

Thursday and Friday: I worked and a I drove there (agh, in disgust!) at this point in the week I just felt SOO tired. Both days I had my swim stuff in the car, just in case I felt like swimming afterwards (duh!). I'm not the type of girl who will just feel like doing something when I'm tired. I have to have it in the plan and not as an option!! I have let the whole month of May go by with options to get out of jail free. I'm still letting myself believe that I'm recovering from Wildflower (which judging by my workouts lately I may still be!) and I'm letting things slide a bit, because TRUELY Ironman training starts with 24 weeks and I'm still 26 weeks out...

Saturday: I met up with the running club again yesterday. Saturday I had planned a long bike ride. My friends leured me out of that journy with a promise of a girls-only breakfast date after the run workout. Luckily for me I chose the run/breakfast b/c it was a very cold/windy/wet morning and I wouldn't have been having very much fun on the bike! I decided of course to push the bike ride back to today (Sunday)......and woke up to pouring rain.....hmmm. Maybe I'll get the trainer out. That has yet to happen, and I do have a running offer so I may skip the ride this week.....and just get a solid run in.

Next week will be the NEW Katy. My goals are to do ALL my workouts so I can check my boxes on my workout calendar! I do have a wedding on Saturday out of town so I may have to squeeze my long ride in earlier in the week? Once I am back on track and I don't let myself slip-up in my workouts it's easier to fight the feeling of getting out of them! As you can see from last week too, is there is no swims posted...hmmmm...I'm having some water phobia! :) I just don't like to get WET! I will probably join a master's swim club (at least for the summer). It would be really good for me to swim with a coach pushing me and with people pushing me. Cuz' I'm just not getting it done on my own.