7/14 - 7/20

Monday - Rest

Surprisingly I am not that sore from Saturday but I still want to give my body a few days to recover.  I am not doing another triathlon this summer as much as I would love to do the Mid Summer Triathlon or Best in the West.  I think I could do the full sprint now with the 1/2 mile swim.  The #1 reason being is the cost.  Triathlons are $70-90--so much more than running races.  I would rather put that money towards other things.  It's also takes up a good part of a Saturday and I feel like our Saturdays in August & September are valuable and we have other things planned anyway.  Some of my thoughts as to What Next? are any or all of the above:  1)  take a flat repair biking class--this would help ease my nervousness about flats.  The new REI offers a class once a month as does the Bike Peddler every few months.  2)  work on my running and buy a Running GPS to track my mileage and speed.  With that possibly train for a half marathon I would run in the fall or winter.   3)  work on strength training and also go to Centergy once a week and work on yoga/flexibility 4)  work on biking--tackle hills, do longer rides, try to ride with others (I'm almost thinking of tackling this next spring and just do normal rides at Minto Brown for the time being).

I really want to keep swimming Wednesday mornings.  Once school starts I'll probably do Centergy on Thursday mornings for awhile and Group Ride on Fridays.  That would mean trying to do Power on Saturdays which doesn't always work--we often have things on Saturdays.  I could do Power Wednesday or Friday afternoons otherwise.  Then Monday, Tuesday or Sunday would possibly be running days.  My day off would be either be Monday or Tuesday.

Tuesday - Ran 3 miles and 1 mile with Rob

Rob wants to start doing some kind of cardio.  He hates running.  I think he should bike instead.  But he said he wants to run twice a week and have me run with him.  The kids are finally at the age we can leave them for 15 minutes as long as run on our street--it's about a half mile to the end of the street and he only wants to run a mile for now.  I ran 3 miles beforehand and did the last mile with him.

Wednesday - Swam 1 hour, Group Power 1 hour

Wow pretty active day.  I swam in the morning with Erica.  Then I took the kids to the pool and played in the water with them.  Then I went to Group Power at 5 PM.  Then I played street hockey at night.

Thursday - Ran 1 mile with Rob

I wanted to go to Centergy but I had leg cramps during the night and was so tired from all the activity yesterday.  I did do Rob's 1 mile run with him.

Rest of the week:  Aside from swimming with the kids and short bike rides and walks with them, I am taking the rest of the week off. We're pretty active, but I am not doing any hard core workouts on my own. Rob & Hailey are in Philly and I really see no point of getting child care when I'm not training for anything.  My body probably needs the rest after the triathlon.  Next week I only plan on going to Group Power once and Centergy once and that's probably it.  Once they are back from Philly I will put together some sort of exercise plan for the rest of the summer.  Right now I am enjoying the break.