back on the wagon

here i am again, late on my post.....this won't be habitual i promise (to all my devoted fans :). last week went pretty well considering i worked three days (yuck, who does that??). i got up nice and early monday morning (4:15am) for a nice swim before work. luckily, i had my very own lane at the yucky gym pool and was able to get a solid 1,500 yds of technique work in. it actually felt pretty great to get wet again. i took tuesday off of training, as i worked again, and was really tired after getting up so early the previous morning. i had my typical wednesday including a wonderful spin class and killer physical therapy session. thursday was a nice run day...i've been really focusing on my form while running (per my physical therapists orders) and found myself feeling a bit silly attempting to lengthen my stride! hopefully, i didn't look as funny as i felt (no one pointed and laughed...??). i felt really good after my nice run, way less pain than i've had the last year or so....hopefully things are getting back into alignment and all my strenuous physical therapy is paying off?? friday was my last work day of the week and i rode my bike to get my nice easy 20 mile spin in for the week....except i almost always hammer on the way home because it's SOOO fun. saturday i knew it was going to be hot, so my plan was to leave the house around 6am for my long bike ride. i found myself FINALLY ready at 6:45 (still REALLY early for me!).....and yuck! it was alreay hot and stuffy out! **grumble** i headed out auberry rd. to humphrey's station, feeling really tired and HOT by the time i got to humphrey's i thought i'd change up my planned route and head out sample rd. to pittman hill, and make a big loop back down ashlan ave. all the way to fruit. this was a nice and fun idea until i realized how boring riding on ashlan ave. for 15 miles was....especially when it was already pushing 100 degrees. my last few miles i was trying to force my HOT TEA temperatured water down as i was getting chills from being overheated (not my favorite feeling ever!). i tried to tell myself to get used to the long boring flat riding as that will be familiar terrain come november in arizona. hopefully it will be around 30 degrees cooler...but with my luck they'll have some record high that day. i got home finished a fresh water and headed out for my transition run. i only made myself run 1.5 miles rather than the usual 20 minutes since it was SOOOOO hot. my legs felt pretty darn great, and i didn't have any of my usual pains while running. nice! sunday i headed out for my "long" run....only 8 miles at this point. :) yes. NO pain....ok so maybe about a 1 on the 1-10 scale and that was 6 miles in. typically miles 3-8 there would be pain like an icepick stabbing me. so i finished this week with only one swim under my belt........and no weight lifting (outside of physical therapy)....but other than that i stayed pretty close to on-track and felt great doing it. i'm not too sore or run down, and my running pain is HOPEFULLY sub-siding! phew! onto next week, i'm optimistic as i only work two days NICE! that's more like it. how can you go wrong with four days off in a ROW! until then...you know you can leave comments right??......and p.s. take my poll. help a girl out, i've got decisions to make here.