Vacation Workouts

Pharmie and I just spent some time with my family this weekend. We were up in Alexandria, MN staying in a cabin on Lake Mary.

We got in a few workouts. Pharmie went for a good 75 mile bike ride in some sloppy weather. She got back with some messy legs:

The next morning, we both went for a swim in Lake Mary. I started with a solid breakfast of waxy, chocolate Donut Gems and toast:

Then we got wet:

Pharmie went for about an hour, so she took off before me. I only went for 20 minutes, because next weekend’s triathlon is just a quarter mile swim (which I’m hoping to finish in around 9 minutes). When I finished my swim, I took a photo similar to XT4’s blog photo:

My photo


XT4’s original

(His lake looks bigger, and his swim cap is less "girlie." I'm "Steve in a Speedo," damn it - shouldn't my swim cap say "Speedo"?!?)

Later that day, my brother-in-law went for a bike ride. At one point, he tugged a little too hard on his bike shorts, and, let’s just say he was glad that he had gym shorts on over his bike shorts:

Injury Update:
So after the Lifetime Triathlon just over a week ago, my calf was pretty tight and sore for a few days. Sunday and Monday morning, I woke up with a nasty limp. Tuesday and Wednesday it was better (I took 5 days completely off). Thursday I had some ART, and my Doctor told me that track intervals (1600s) would be fine to do on Friday. He figured I had a little muscle strain from the swim last Saturday during the tri. So I hit the track on Friday after a little warm-up, but I only did one interval - after that, it was pretty sore again, so I figured there was no reason to push it too much.

I wanted to try to get in some speed work late last week or early this week for my tri this next weekend: the Chisago Lakes Sprint Triathlon. It’s a speedy, short little tri, so some speed work would have been nice. But it’s not the end of the world. I may try a slower, slightly longer run tomorrow (6-8 miles maybe), and I’d like to try a fast bike workout on Wednesday. Then, triathlon on Sunday! I’ll be seeing some blogger buddies out there (and hopefully meeting some new ones!). Should be fun!!