Big News!

Guess what I did............

.......that's right, I am officially signed up for Ironman Cozumel! Yikes! I thought signing up for IMC made me nervous, how about an inaugural international race in November.

We had a busy weekend, Friday I went for a nice 40 min run. It was soo nice outside! After work I went with a girlfriend to the mall. I think walking around the mall for 3 hours was harder than going for a workout, I was beat when I got home!

Saturday we went to the Aero Space Museum to visit Allan and see what he does all day. It was pretty cool seeing all of the airplanes....and since we have connections we even got to sit in some of them! Chad will be posting the pics as soon as he stops sleeping on the couch:) That night Allan and Karen and baby Allison came over for dinner and some drinks. Man has Allison grown, too cute!

On Sunday I went to work at the Tech Shop and it was busy! When I got home we lazed around for a bit, signed up for Ironman, and when Chad went swimming Lucy and I had some bonding time. I rode for about 80 min, after being on my feet all day and riding my legs were tired.

Last night I woke up at around 5:30 (actually I guess that would be this morning) and my legs were THROBBING and hurting. It sucked. I had to get up and take some advil so I could get back to sleep. So far today they are okay....I'm not too sure what happened there but it sucked.

Tonight, depending on what time I get off of work I want to get another run in and go to the gym. The run may not happen if I get off late, then I may have to go on the elliptical or something! That's about all for me. Happy Training everyone!

Quiet Day

Hey Peeps,

I have a pretty quiet day today at work and it is nice. I have had a few crazy days and now I get time to breathe! Ahhhhhh.

On Tuesday I went to the gym and pumped some Iron. I still am feeling a little weak, but I challenged myself a little more and I can feel it. Wowzers! Tuesday night I didn't feel like running or doing the cross trainer so I went home and gave Lucy some love. It took me a little while to get going on the bike but after about 45 min of easy spinning I was getting in the groove and feeling comfortable. In total I ended up spinning for about 70 minutes and then I called it a day.

I was going to sneak away from work yesterday for a run, but I didn't get the chance and by the end of the day I just didn't want to. The nice thing about unstructured training is I don't have to if I don't want to:) I didn't go to the pool either. I pretty much hated it last week and if I am doing Cozumel next November I will have more than enough time to get back into swimming. For now I will leave it alone! I was thinking though, Greg you mentioned you wanted more pics of you coaching, so if you want me to come and take a few pics I can!

Today I AM sneaking away from work for a run. It looks really nice outside...so I am pumped! This is my favorite time of year to run, it is gorgeous outside with the leaves changing and I like the cool air!

This weekend I have to work on Sunday again, but other than that there are no plans. Have a good weekend!

Leslie

Ironman Shuffle

Hi Friends,

Not too such to update. On Friday I went home from work, still super tired so I had a 2.5 hour sleep. Yawn! Once I dragged myself off of the couch I went to the gym to do a workout with Chad (sort of). Guess what....successfully squatting the bar. Ohhh yeah that's right. Once I finished my leg workout I did 60 min on the crosstrainer.

Saturday morning (well my morning but in real time afternoon:) I went for a run. My legs were feeling the repercussions from the leg workout the day before. When I got home I confessed to Chad that while I may have run for 40 minutes....it was very Ironman shuffle like. Super slow motion!

Sunday I went to work and then Chad made me go swimming and I REALLY didn't want to. I frolicked around in the water for awhile and then made my way over to the hot tub:) I think I need to not swim for awhile because there is no enjoyment even once I get there!

Monday I went for another run. I love the fall, so I tend to run a lot this time of year. A quick 30 minutes this time and I could actually lift my feet off of the ground....good news. I have been feeling a lot better so far this week....dare I say....maybe even GOOD! Yikes! We will see how the rest of the week goes but so far so good!

As for what I am doing for the rest of the week I don't know, some running, maybe I'll get on the bike, hopefully not swimming:)

The Weekend

Hey bloggers,

I did end up going swimming on Wednesday....and it was okay. The must have found the temperature switch for the pools because this is the warmest the pool has been in months and months! Chad went for his swimming lesson with Greg and I sort of did a work out. I did 100m sets of whatever I felt like and rested for how ever long I felt like.

Yesterday I woke up feeling like ass, and so I didn't do a whole lot of anything. Cleaned up the house a bit and slept. I sound like a broken record but I am still oh so very sleepy all of the time! Greg told me the other night that it took him about 8 weeks to feel good after his first Ironman....so apparently it is normal for me to be sleeping so much more than usual!

I am going to the gym tonight, after I go home and have yet another nap. I have been able to have coffee or tea during this tired time either as my IBS flared up....boooo. Anyway, going to the gym for a leg workout and some cardio.

Tomorrow I plan on sleeping a lot and then maybe going for a run and try and go for longer than 30 minutes....maybe:) We are going to Spokane for Thanksgiving; Chad is going to do a half marathon, and I will do the 5 mile run. I can still run 5 miles right??? Everyone is invited to come, even if you don't want to run you can still come!

On Sunday it is my first shift back at the Tech Shop, so if you need new shoes or gear come down for a visit! I will be there. Not sure what the game plan is for training on Sunday, we will see how I feel!

That is all I have to update. Boring I know, but I am at work and it is really very slow and I don't have a lot to do! It is Friday though, Yay Friday!

Have a good weekend all.

Tired of being tired

Hello my bloggin peeps!

Okay, I am ready for my body to be recovered. I know I know I need to be patient and it takes time and I did an Ironman and blah blah blah. I feel like recovery is taking FOREVER! How long does this take, honestly? You would think I would enjoy not having to train, but I miss it.

I am feeling better than last week, but I still hate hearing my alarm go off in the morning.....my body is saying more sleep. I get AT LEAST 8 hours every night, what the eff.

I have noticed I am getting better in some ways; I can run easily now, cardio is easy (the crosstrainer/elliptical kicked my A$$ last week:), my knees don't hurt. However I have come to the conclusion that I NEVER use my biceps. These pipes are hurting today...ouch. I have lost a lot of strength over the last couple of months, so much so it simply hurts to lift weights:) For biceps I did 3 sets of 20 reps with a 20 lbs barbell and by number 15 on the third set that bar had gravity on its side let me tell ya. The next bicep exercise...not pretty.

Chad is going swimming tonight....and I do not think I will. I have no motivation to get into a cold pool just yet. Maybe I will just go and watch, I have never been much of a watcher so we will see what happens.

Feeling Better!

I am feeling a little less tired. I had one goal for this weekend....Sleep. After my nap filled week I thought I should try and catch up a little on the weekend.

On Friday I worked until 12 and then I helped Chad with a corporate seminar thing, did a little chat about nutrition. The seminar was about 3 hours long and when we finished up we grabbed some food and Chad went back to work and I went home.

We got Season 4 of Grey's Anatomy and so I was glued to the TV on Friday night....all night:) It was awesome, I didn't even feel guilty! See I have this thing, when I am watching TV (and not riding my bike) I am always plagued with thoughts of all of the things I SHOULD be doing! On Friday it was R n R time for this chickie.

I slept for a beautiful 10 hours or so Friday night. Chad got up and headed to the gym to train a couple of people, so I got up and cleaned up the house! I decided since it was so nice outside I would go and run my loop. I felt pretty good the entire time, first time that my knees weren't complaining! Yeah!

Later on Saturday once Chad got home we loaded up the truck and went out to Crossfield for the night. We spent some time visiting, playing cards, having naps (while I did anyway:). That night I slept for another 12 hours....except we didn't go to bed until 2 am....that means I slept until 2 pm! Yikes! I haven't done that since university!

Chad and I stuffed ourselves with yummy breakfast and then we decided to go for a little bike ride since it was sooooo very nice outside. Off to Madden we went. Once we got out there Chad wanted to keep going but I wasn't having any of it:) We turned back and started towards town. This was the first ride out here all year that we weren't battling a storm! Figures.

Once we got back to the house Chad went for a run and I sat on the patio with Tom! My biggest question is "why no t-runs in the summer with me???"

After that deep fatigue I had last week I would rather be sore and hobbling around for 2 weeks than to feel that tired. That made the tiredness I felt during training look like peanuts! They say with each Ironman it lessens....hmmmm I remain a little skeptical. I am going to the gym tonight...I think I will some weights....maybe some more cardio....who knows!!!!

Who's the Rookie???

Hey,

I was going through my photos the other day trying to organise my scrapbooking stuff (yes I scrapbook:) and I came across these photos of my first open water tri, 2nd ever triathlon and I couldn't help but chuckle.

This is me before the swim....a little nervous!

Getting ready to jump in, well actually if my memory serves me correct I wanted to go home and forget about this whole triathlon thing. Chad (who was a little grumpy at me for dragging him out of bed in the morning) pushed me in the water! Notice my fancy wetsuit; good for water activities like tubing, wakeboarding (or attempting to), not so much open water swimming!

This is me in transition....sitting...that's right I sat down, took a load off, and took my sweet ass time.
The biggest thing I can notice in the pic is my shoes:) I do believe Lisa informed me about clipless pedals after this race!
Ahhh, out onto the run. I was not at all a trigeek here, good old russel shorts and tank top! I love it!

Brought back some memories:)

Anyway, this week I have done a few work outs, but I spent most of my time sleeping. I had a nap almost every single day this week, soooooo very sleepy. I was warned of this, I had a couple of people telling me I would feel great and then feel pretty crappy. They spoke the truth. I got home from work one night, turned on the TV to channel 2 trying to find something to watch. That didn't last long I was asleep within about 30 seconds woke up and hour later, I didn't even get to choose a TV show!

When I train the biggest thing I notice is my knees. I went for another little run with Chad and this one we had to go home early because my knees started to hurt. I also tried doing some squats, I warmed up with body weight and then tried the bar....no weight, just the bar and the same thing happened. My knees really hurt. I went back to the body weight stuff right away. I am planning a sleeping a lot this weekend and hopefully I can catch up a bit. Biking is good, so I will do some more of that this weekend.

I still haven't gone swimming....and I don't care! I think it would be good for me, but I am not motivated to do it at all....so I won't!

That's about it, have a great weekend!

Leslie

IMC Pics

Hey, these are not in order....but I sure you can figure out what's going on :) :) :)

Ahhhhh, all finished!!!
Not too sure what I am thinking about here?

This is when my legs still felt good!

Climbing up Richter


I have more photos, Chad uploaded most of them on IMC day or shortly thereaftter, these are the proferssional ones. I still have to order my swim pic!

I'm Sleepy!

It has been 2 weeks since Ironman and I think that having a busy social life is harder on me than all of the training! Last week was a crazy week for me with just getting back from holidays, having said that I still felt like I had nothing to do....weird I know.

Hmmm where to start. Tuesday morning was a tough day, first day back to work. The fun part was that I got to talk about Ironman all day! One of my clients brought me flowers, it was so sweet. I did the getting back from holidays stuff on Tuesday night like getting groceries, cooking up a storm, doing laundry and the like. I had an itch to do something cardiovascular but I managed to keep myself busy.

Wednesday night I did more of the same (camping for a week and a half = lots of clean up:). Chad came home at 10:30 pm and said he was going for a run and I could come if I wanted. Yes yes I wanted! Off we went. We ran around the streets of downtown which is a little creepy I gotta tell ya. I felt really good throughout the run. I returned home after about 30 min and Chad went out for another loop. Funny story: We were a couple of blocks from home when some lady under the influence of some "special" substance started yelling at us....very loudly. I t was to the effect of "what the hell are you running at this time of night for? You are f$%#@#$%%g idiots, and she screamed that phrase about 5 times. I think we need to move to the burbs. From that little run, I was tuckered out and went to bed....I woke up in the same position I fell asleep in!

Thursday I met up with Greg to talk about how the year went, what I want to do next year etc. We chatted for a couple of hours. Chad had been calling me, once I got back to him he was meeting up with the fam at Olive garden for a late supper. All I can say is yummmmmmmmm.

At work on Friday I did a whole body training session. It has been awhile since I have done weights and I could feel it! Actually I can still feel it. I took it really easy but I am still sore; legs, arms, core were what I felt the most! If anyone would have told me that my legs would be sore from body weight squats and lunges I would have laughed. Yeah not so funny! On Friday night I went out with some girlfriends.....ohhhhh man. I am not used to this staying out until 3am thing. Most of the time I spent Friday nights on the couch sleeping, get up and go swimming and then I go back to sleep. This was quite a change!

On Saturday we had the team legend party where I ate waaaaaay to much! It was great to see everyone and chat about triathlon all night. Once Chad and I were on our way home, I was looking forward to laying on the couch, my girlfriend called and said I should come out again.....so I did. Whoa, I haven't done that since University. I am to old for that much action in a weekend! Once every month or two is enough for this crazy cat.

Sunday I slept in.....I love to sleep. Once I managed to get Chad going we went out to Crossfield to visit, go for a bike ride, change the oil, clean up some stuff. We managed to get the visit in, and the bike ride was a little less than it was going to be due to the freezing wind! We got all geared up and we were on our bikes for 5 minutes and we were both cold! The highway was only going to be colder so we did another tour de crossfield! Chad went out to do hill repeats, I rode out to the hill and then told him to have fun and I went back to the house! My bike felt a little foreign to me, but I missed Lucy!

Lucy cuddled with Greg's bike all the way back from Penticton so I am hoping she picked up a few tips and we will be faster next year!

Tonight I am going to get on the bike again, this time inside. We got season 3 of Nip/Tuck so I have a date with the TV tonight:)

Leslie

We are home!!!

Hey everyone!

I apologise for my blogging slacking....but I was feeling a little lazy on holidays! Chad was very good about updating his, so you can check that out or we can go for coffee and chat about it! We did so much on holidays that I don't know where to start!

We got back on Monday night and I have been super busy. Lots to do, mostly catch up on daily life.

I have been feeling really good. I was sore for about 3 days after Ironman, it was tough doing all that shopping/touring on tired sore legs....but it was worth it because I got lots of good stuff:) I am going to ease my way back into training again, starting with some light stuff. We will see how it goes!

This weekend I am going to catch up with some girlfriends, go to the Team Legend potluck....perhaps squeeze in an easy bike ride, visit with family! It is a little weird to not have a schedule of training to do, I feel a little lost. Luckily I have other things to keep me busy right now. I am looking forward to getting back into the gym, I miss lifting weights. I need to get Chad on my periodization schedule, it helps when he sets up what I should do!

Anyway, I will let you know how the recovery is going. I am going post some pics on here as well....hopefully soon!

Happy training/recovery!

Leslie