Long swim and 10K

Short post today. I''m tired, but it's a good tired. I had Steph film me for a few laps so I can see how my swimming is doing (reminds me, I need to review the recording). I did 80 laps (2000 meters), then I changed clothes and did 10K on the treadmill.

2-12-09 6 miler

I've had a bad exercise week. Pool was closed on me Monday, didn't get to workout Monday night because of home items. I had a vendor dinner meeting Tuesday night. Wednesday is always church night. I FINALLY got to the gym on Thursday night.

I decided I wasn't going to hammer out a monster workout - just a nice longish run ('long' is ALWAYS a relative term). I've been giving a lot of thought to the constant HR workout I'd attempted earlier - more specifically the 132 bpm number; which I STILL think is waaaay too low. I decided to monitor my HR manually, and adjust accordingly. I wanted to do 5 miles at a speed of at least 10 min/mile. I set the tready @ 6mph and a 3% incline. This worked out great except for one thing: about 3 miles into the run, I decided to bump up the speed a bit, and also decided to take it to 6 miles. I didn't give it any more thought until about 48 minutes into the workout when the treadmill incline dropped to 0 and the speed started to plummet..."Workout Complete" displays on the screen and I recall the original setup. I'd set up the workout as a set distance run.... 5 miles. I frantically started pounding buttons to get the speed and incline back up and keep the treadmill from resetting my workout data. I did a flash of quick math and figured if the data reset, then I'd need to run another 10 minutes to get to 10 miles. I got the speed recovered and was back in the groove... for about 2 minutes until it all happened again. This time I couldn't save it

*** sounds remarkable like a plane crash doesn't it ***

I reset the speed and incline (lost all the data), and ran for another 10 minutes.


I estimate that it was a 1 hr run, and a distance about 6.2 miles.

I stretched well and left.

Didn't get to splash today - this is my grumpy look

When I got to the pool today @ 5:30, they told me it was closed due to maintenance that didn't get finsihed this weekend. The bad thing is that @ 5am, I knew they'd done maintenance, and I almost called the gym to verify they were done before I drove to the other end of town - - always follow the gut.

2-7-08

I did get to run 5.25 miles on the tready - did intervals and wore the heartrate monitor - interesting.

I love my new HR monitor. When I step up up to the treadmills, they light up with my heartrate. It has the added bonus of affecting the other treadmills adjacent to me . You should have seen the panic on the little old man's face next to me when his heart rate went from 75 bpm to 150 bpm within 5 seconds---- he left. I tried the constant HR workout, but I had to stop after a mile, becuase it didn't feel like a workout. The treadmill told me I should be working @ 132 bpm... my max HR is about 185... 132 is a crawl. The tready had me slowed down to 4.5 mph @ one point...I was almost walking. I did that for a mile, then stopped an programmed some good hard intervals for the next 4o mins. After than (dripping with sweat) I did weights and core workout.