Ha! via Google
Anyway... I was on a mission today to not let a dreary, ugly, busy day stop me from staying positive and taking care of business. And that I did! Today was a little more crazy than usual but included the following:
- Clean the house for a showing
- Get Julia up and dressed
- Get to the gym
- Run 6 miles
- Swim 1300 meters (almost got to 1650 but ran out of time)
- Shower
- Get Julia to school
- Get to the library to work, take two conference calls, more work
- Get to the doctor for my yearly check-up (I know, you're jealous)
- Get home for more work and two more conference calls
- Pick up Julia from school
- Hit Target for a bit
- Get to gymnastics for her last class of this session
- Get pizza on the way home
- Work more
- Write blog post
- Julia's bath and bedtime (coming soon)
- Bedtime for me (hopefully coming soon)
Ain't that the truth. via Google
I couldn't help but share this from Julia's gynmastics today - they all got ribbons for the last day!
Superstar!
The past week, I had 5 out of the 7 days with double workouts to complete. Luckily I was able to fit them all in with the exception of 1.4 miles (out of 5) yesterday and was 300 or 400 meters short on 2 of my swims due to lack of time. Some days entailed getting up at 4am to ride my bike, or racing through the gym to get a swim and a run in while Julia was in daycare.
So for week 4, I completed 88 miles of swimming/biking/running, and 352 miles for the month of February. Not too shabby for the first month of training! My March calendar from coach Roman includes more time on my bike, more meters in the pool and some longer and tempo runs along with a 10k race in a couple of weeks. I can tell my endurance is building up and my body is reacting well to the double workouts which is good!
Ok month 2 - bring it on!
Questions:
1) How was your Leap Day?
2) Did you meet your February goals?
3) What is your big event for March?
All that and workin, too? You're amazing!
ReplyDeleteThat is some amazing mileage - and only 1 month in!! Very impressive!
ReplyDeleteWay to go on a solid first month of IM training. If you keep this up, you're going to kill it on race day! It amazes me how much you get done and how much you always have on your to-do list. You're one busy girl. Julia looks like she's an amazing gymnast. Olympics one day? :)
ReplyDeleteWow Erika - saw your blog post on our Team Tough Chik site and wanted to check out fellow Toughies who are doing IM this year. YOU ROCK! I'm also a business analyst - training for IM Canada in August and can't imagine doing this if I were a mom too. Keep on keepin' on!
ReplyDeleteJulia looks so cute at gymnastics! Does she really enjoy it?
ReplyDeleteWay to go on your first month of training! I am no where ready for IM training. Are you training with Rick Smith Jr? I looked as his mileage last month and thought I was going to die. His swimming was over 2x mine and his biking was 10x mine! Our running was the same, and I skipped a week, and I am in the height of my training. He still has one more month to still build for IMTX! Oh snap!
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