Snow Storm Training

I've been continuing to train through this weather - although it's harder to roll out of bed when everything is blanketed in snow, and still.



Since my last post: Road my trainer 75 minutes (21 miles) on Sunday, Monday night I did P90X, Ab Ripper, which is horrible. Tuesday morning ran only 2 miles on a treadmill then did my lower body weight routine at the Y, Tuesday night I had a great bike trainer session with the Men of Steele cycling team (21 miles), this morning I swam 3,000 yards.



Last night I road next to some guy with a nice Cervelo R3. We worked off each other - it was fun. I wanted to beat him and he wanted to beat me, so we both pushed ourselves to nearly total exhaustion. We did super spin sets- where you pedal as fast as you can. We were hitting 180 RPM: that is spinning fast. Spinning like that causes all kinds of weird pains. I thought we were finished after that, but they put in another 30 minute CD where we got into the real good stuff - 90 seconds sustained, all out X 7. I was dizzy after that and drove home intoxicated on exercise in the snow storm. I couldn't have walked a straight line had I been pulled over.

I broke my scraper trying to get the ice and snow off the windshield this morning. Not many cars in the lot at the downtown YMCA - but there were two guys in the pool, struggling.

I swam my normal 800 SKPS, then 4 x 100 IM Kick/Swim, 4 x 150 Free building up to max on last 50, 4 x 50 Free, 200 easy, then hit 4 x 250 yards free hard. 3,000 yards total. Started to fall apart on the 250's.

I'm starting to feel fit...my recovery time between workouts is improving. No long-term pain after weights. This exercise thing is working.