Apologies for not writing the past couple of days. I've been a combination of busy and bad. I guess I haven't written since Thursday afternoon after I did my run workout from Wednesday that I had missed. Well, I actually failed to "stay on track." After my run, I had to go downtown to do internship hours for my Spanish class and I went to coach field hockey for 2 hours straight from there. I ended up getting home at around 9:20pm. I was utterly exhausted after dealing with middle school students for 6 hours and opted to crawl into my bed at 9:45pm, blow off any work I should have been doing, and watch "The Help."
Not only did I turn in early on Thursday, I then overslept on Friday. FAIL. I was 15 minutes late to work in the lab and missed my morning swim workout. I got home from work and completed my run workout, which consisted of a 35 minute foundation run followed by 4-20 second "relaxed sprints." I had initially planned on going to the pool when it opened at around 7:30pm but knew I'd be pressed for time. I was supposed to be ready by 9:15pm to leave for my friend's 21st birthday celebration. Fail number #2. I had now missed 2 workouts for the week.
Saturday morning, I woke up in hangover central thanks to that bottle of Belvedere. I basically ended up laying in bed all day being a puddle and accomplishing absolutely nothing. I finally mustered the strength to go downstairs and complete my bike workout, which was an hour and 30 minute foundation ride, but I did it on a stationary bike in my building's gym. Hopefully this week, I'll develop the courage to take my actual bike out and ride around Baltimore. Honestly, I think I'm mostly scared because I know nothing about bikes and I'm afraid I'll like get a flat or something. Anyway, in my hour and a half ride I did exactly 23 miles, which is a slight improvement in pace from my first foundation ride. (I also accomplished reading a chapter in my Human Sexuality textbook in an effort to study for my exam on Tuesday. This isn't really relevant to my training but I just wanted to show my attempts to balance school, work, and training.)
Today, I have a swim workout and a foundation run. I'm planning on heading to the pool in a little while to complete my swim workout and then running after my sorority meeting. If only I could write my final papers as quickly and easily as I blog, maybe I'd have accomplished more than a very general outline of my paper that's due on Tuesday night. Oh well....Yay for all nighters! And now for my weekly tally:
Weeks in Training: 1
Missed swim workouts: 1
Missed bike workouts: 1
Missed run workouts: 0
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