I didn't know if I was going to fit today's training in. I'm travelling to Vancouver this afternoon and need to leave for the airport by 3:30. I had an important meeting at 10 am this morning and somehow had to do a run and swim in between. Thanks to Reid I was able to get it done.He got sick at 6:30 in the morning and was "throwing up", which woke us up. Alice had to do a little clean up because he didn't get it all in the toilet. The upside was that I was awake and decided to do my run. I normally don't train in the morning. Especially running. I like to warm up during the day.
It was cold out, - 19 C and there was a light layer of fluffy, slippery snow on the ground. To add to the danger, I wore my old shoes that have no tread left on the bottoms. I didn't want to use my new shoes because my blisters were far from healed.
I ran disgustingly slow. Especially in the beginning. I didn't want to get injured and this is my moderate run which is supposed to be an easy run regardless. All in all, the run wasn't too bad, except for the last 40 minutes when I had to go to the bathroom bad, and it wasn't #1. I did end up making it home, just in time. It felt good to get that run out of the way, it took a lot of time pressure off.
At lunch time I did my swim and just focused on stroke technique and keeping my heart rate in the zone. Now that I'm counting my strokes I find the swim goes by much faster. I still find it hard to keep perfect form. It takes a while to get into the groove. I've got to video tape myself to see how different my stroke looks.
It felt good to finish and have some time to get packed, answer emails, update the blog and get to the airport without being rushed. Now the challenge will be do get my tempo bike ride in tomorrow. I hope the hotel they booked me in has a gym.
Mod Run - 1:30:02 / 16.41 km / 5:28 pace / 134 avg hr
Long Swim - 1:02:44 / 3000 meters / 125 avg hr
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Understatement of the year "It was cold out - 19C" Are you crazy, only a Canadian could describe that as simply "cold". I still tell stories of it being - 15C once when I was a student and I certainly didn't go out running.
Occassionally it gets cold here in Malaysia especially if it rains during an early morning run, sometimes it gets as low as +24C and you see ALL of the Malaysian shivering and quite a lot of the expats too.
Not me though, I'm hard as nails me! I don't start complaining or shivering until it gets really really cold - about +22C!!! Haha, sad but true.
Even funnier is that I suffer terribly in the heat - how ironic!
S, I guess it is funny. It's just that I've been training in cold weather my whole life. To me, cold is -35 C and below.
What is ironic is I love the heat and love running in heat. When I did IM Kentucky it was 33C and I loved it. Although it would have been better if they had some shade on the run. Not a tree. Maybe I should move to Malaysia, it sounds like my kinda place.
Did you mean it's warm like that year round?
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