Traveling and Training

Well I just got home tonight from a pretty nightmarish trip to the West Coast for work -- I was in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Denver in the span of three days. The one good thing is that I was actually really diligent about getting workouts in while I was on the road -- I did a brick on Monday, lifted weights on Tuesday, and ran five miles on the treadmill this morning. I ended up having to wake up really early each day to work out (the worst was this morning -- I had a 7:00 A.M. meeting, so I had to get up at 4:30), but the nice part was that my body was still on East Coast time, so I was actually getting up much later than I normally do during the week. I am going to try and wake up early tomorrow morning for a quick run before work -- we will have to see how that goes given the fact I am kind of beat down from all the meetings and flights...

Catching Up

Well I know that I have not posted anything for a couple of weeks. I got really busy at work (particularly with traveling) and then was out of town for July 4th weekend visiting the in-laws in Iowa. Last week was really solid from a training perspective -- I ran three times, rode three times, and lifted weights once. I was actually able to squeeze in three short workouts over the long holiday weekend, which I was really happy about. My only regret is that I thought I would have a chance to finally do some swimming in a quarry by the in-laws, but it did not work out.

I have a plan for finally getting my swim training in, though -- one of the branches of my NYC gym does have a pool, so I plan to start going there on Friday afternoons. I figure I only need five or so quality swim workouts before my triathlon in mid-August, but at the end of the day, I do need to get them in. This week is off to a solid start -- brisk five mile run on Sunday, brick yesterday, weights today. Tomorrow I will probably do another brick, and then try to finally hit the pool on Friday before calling it a week.