Hangin' Loose

Bit excited about the dual.  And just signed us up for our next one.  The Legacy Duathalon on April 17(same day as SLC marathon).  This one is a 2 mile run 20 bike then 2 run.  So not quite like the last one.  And also this weekend I have a swimming clinic with the Desert Sharks.  Where they will be video taping us and such.  So it will be very interesting and hopefully learn to swim better.  I dont know.  But I might be changing my training plans this year to doing a few tris.  I got my next race in less then 3 weeks running.   Then another dual and then Ogden marathon.  I am signed up for UVM and want to do SGM since I will have finished the runners series with running Spectrum 10k in 3 weeks.  So I dont really need to do the PC Marathon or I can just do it for more training.  I really like the First training which will allow me the chance to do some xtraining for Duals and maybe my first Tri.  It would be great recovery.  I just got to make it through the next 2 weeks.:)  My Vets bball team will be playing all next week and into the weekend if all goes well.  So we will see how that goes.  Plan is to get in a bike ride tonight.

Decided to hit the gym and do a brick like workout.  So rode the bike for 22 mins and 6.35 miles.  Then ran on the TM for 2 miles.  Again it was around .3 miles that legs started to feel good and .5 was able to kick up the pace.  Played with the speed alittle.  Ranging from 8:30 pace to 7:00.  Felt pretty good for the most part.  My left knee was sore though after the run.  So I iced it and its feeling better.  The run was 16:18 so around a 8:09 pace for the run.

Speedwork tonight and Bball. So went and hit the gym after work. 2 miles warm up with 5 strides. And one mile cool down. 1200 x2 RI 2min, 800 x4 RI 2min.

1200 @ 4:55 x2

800 @ 3:13 x2

800 @ 3:09 x2

Felt really good to do a full speed workout.  And kicked it up on the last 2 intervals of the halfs. 

Later after relaxing for 2 hrs went and played hoop for 2.5 hrs again.  Had alot of fun again and hopefully burned alot more calories.

Didnt go to work today. Went up to the state capital with the wife to support Jordan School District. So talked with 3 representives in the house. And met with Senator Waddadups. Which was very cool. We were actually on the floor of the senate and then went up to the big desks and talked to Senator Waddadups as he was conducting everything. What a awesome experience to say the least.  I will for sure vote for them again.  And it was interesting seeing it all happen from behind the desk of the President of the Senate first hand.  I am so proud of my wife and that we went and did that.

Had to get in a workout so went and played bball agian.  We only had 12 people show up tonight so I got tons of play time.  Was only out for 1 game so 2 hrs of good hard playing.

The body just wasnt into this run tonight.  Was suppost to be a tempo run.  And started it at 8pm.  My calf was acting weird in the first mile.  And kind of relaxed for the tempo part at 7:24 pace.  But just wasnt feeling good and sluggish.  So called it good.  Good thing since I had snow removal early Fri morning.  Going to have to scale back the 2nd night of Bball.  I dont want to get overtrained and not enough recovery time.

Went to a swimming clinic put on by the Desert Sharks.  So they talked about different drills for the first hr or so then we swam for a hr.  And had it video taped and got instruction.  I got a few different things to work on.  But mostly got the fire going to get swimming more.   So after all of that.  We have started looking more to get the gear for we need to do more tri's and duals.  I will have to change some of my goals for the year.  Still doing Spectrum 10k in 2 weeks.  And also running Ogden, UVM and SG.  Put since I am in through the running series after spectrum.  I will probably pass on PC and do 2-4 tris.  We just signed up for another race there in April.  So I will have a dual on the 17 then the next weekend a sprint or beginner tri with the swim in a pool.  I am getting excited since I will be doing most of my training with my wife instead of us doing our own things.  It will be awesome.  And my goal is it feel good enough to do a Half Ironman come next year.  I was tring to put off this tri goals till I did my BQ and went to Boston.  But can still work on that goal along with my Tri goals.