Monday, February 11, 2008

Mother Nature is a Hard F***ing Teacher

Mother Nature knows my workout schedule AND she can read my mind. She knows when I have a track workout planned because while it always seems nice outside ("Oh, look - the sun's out") it ends up being incredibly windy, cold, or both. Yesterday it was the former, with winds gusting above 30 miles per hour.

Part of my 18.5 miles was on the track. A few intervals in, I started thinking to myself, "This isn't that bad. Maybe this workout will be a breeze." The pun wasn't intended, but apparently Ms. M. Nature thought it was a challenge. The wind was strong. And - although this doesn't seem possible - I had a headwind on the front and back stretches. It caused me to do more than swallow a little pride - I was kicking myself, veering off of the track, and leaving long strings of snot and drool flowing in the gusts. Lovely.

But there was an upside. On my two mile cool down, I had a 30 mph pat on the back.

Yesterday's workout:

2 mile warm-up
4 x 5 minutes at tempo pace with one minute rests
80 minutes easy
4 x 5 minutes at tempo pace with one minute rests
2 mile cool-down

Today's workout:

3 miles
3 x (12 pushups, 10 military presses, 15 curls)
lots of abs and back stuff

1 comment:

chia said...

"Back stuff" ... you say it with such nonchalance!

After all that I would be all about a portabella and onion pizza!

Loads of kudos mate!

I'm seriously strugglin on my 6's now. After that chi-class I'm debating my form and wasting a lot of time contemplating my "chi" rather than truckin' my miles.


Oye mate, you're brilliant and an inspiration. Sorry to be a drag for a moment there, you know the game and I hope you understand ;-)