I had such a dang good day today. Nothing epic or extraordinary happened, it was just full of random little pieces of awesomeness. Let me share the details.
Today is Wednesday, which if you've been paying attention to my rambles here or on the FB, Wednesday is a power workout morning for me. My latest plans include getting to Gold's early enough to get on the treadmill for 15-20 minutes (thinking about trying for 25 next week), go immediately to spin class (that starts at 5:55) for 45 minutes, then go immediately back to the treadmill for a low intensity run for anywhere from 30-70 minutes. It's so awesome....runbikerun. And sweat like a crazy person. I put so much Body Glide on today....and it didn't seem to help in one particular area on my chest. ARGH - need more new workout tops. Anyway....today I was still wondering why I felt the need to do plyometrics on Monday night. And by "I" I mean, "my quads." Climbing out of the saddle today wasn't too fun...and the run hurt nearly every step, but didn't stop me. Today: = 15 run, 45 spin, 60 run with increase in pace the last 20 min. Glorious! I topped it off with a good stretch (which I always do) some ridiculously painful foam rolling (seriously if I didn't want to sound like those big-chested lifting boys, I would SCREAM) and a little bit of upper body lifting. I love having the time to do all this in the morning.
Got home and chose not to shower which may disgust you, but no, not me. Consider it me acting in a sustainable way. I had a bowl of cheerios and skim and made two bottles of water, crystal light and nuun to guzzle in hopes my first pee wouldn't look borderline orange and got a text from one of my besties, Matty! Not only was I pumped to hear from him he also asked if I could cover two of his high school events this week. I jumped at the opportunity. We went back and forth throughout the rest of the morning. In the meantime I think my blood sugar was speaking to me....help! My next weapon of choice: a pear. I then got a text from Mark that just dang near made me pee my pants...which would be challenging considered how dehydrated I was. I went back and forth with him, laughing constantly along the way, throughout the morning as well. So damn funny!
I got to work about 10:45 and ran into Robin first. She asked me if I would present to the indoor track/field team in January at the end of winter break. Of course I nodded my head vigourously!! My favorite topic to lecture on....SPORT NUTRITION! I made my way down to the cave and proceeded to cross a few things off my to-do list and went to Don's 11:20 sports medicine class to be a guest speaker on concussion management. I miss teaching so much so when Don approached me on Monday to do this I jumped at the chance! A chance to talk in front of a group little sponges eagerly nodding their head in tune to my soapbox on the often exciting, often boring topic.
Right after class I forced myself into a tub of 47 degree water that today for some reason felt like 17 degrees instead. While in the tub I ate an apple and some pistachios...thinking that having to open the pistachios would help pass the time. It did. Sort of. It's really not actually being IN the tub that's so challenging and cold, it's recovering AFTER you get out. Especially being that I have to go to the ice rink later in the afternoon....I need to be warmed up!
While grazing on my lunch today I did the following...followed up with a few emails, crossed three more things off my to-do list (it's currently all crossed off for the moment) read a few of the blogs I follow somewhat regularly, discussed Pandora music stations with Sami, discussed Christmas presents for Remi and Reggie with Julie, built myself a pair of custom Oakley's, discussed Sean's 21st birthday (today) with him and then left for the rink. WHERE upon realizing that only 7 players were showing up today, I proceeded to fill the water jug only half-way and ventured in to the skate rental office where I picked out the crappiest pair of rental skates to put on so I could skate with the players. They outfitted me with gloves and a stick too! I quote Rolo, "Erin, what kind of skates are those?" (as she bends over to look at them peeking out of the bottom of Helminen's sweats she borrowed me). I respond, "size 6. I'm a RENTAL MENTAL!" She responds with, "they look like bowling shoes with blades on the bottom of them." LOL
I "skated" with them for about 45 minutes when I felt like simply STANDING in these horrible skates were going to compromise my ability to run without a foot transplant anytime in the near future I ventured back to the locker room to change back into my jeans, boots and mittens (no more hockey gloves). I was gabbing with Kuhl while watching our awesome friend Peter coach his Apollo boys hockey team when I spotted MATTY on the bench. The very Matt I was texting earlier in the day. At this point I figured nothing major could happen on our side of the rink when the coach to player ratio was 1:3.33 so I ran over to see him where we proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes solving the world's problems.
After hockey against my better judgement I turned LEFT (after what seemed like 12 minutes) onto Veteran's Drive and headed towards Target for 3 things: tampons, shave gel and Scope. Odd, I know especially since I dropped a hundo there on Sunday.... I was in and out in like 7 minutes: I rule.
Back home I prepared myself to make and not eat, PB filled Ritz dipped in calorie-free chocolate almond bark. I also baked oatmeal-craisin cookies and oatmeal chocolate chip walnut cookies. I only ate three PB Ritz chocolate pieces of goodness...very proud of myself. Of course I did a calorie analysis of these little circles of goodness! Don't act surprised...125 calories/cookie. Doesn't seem too bad...mostly good fats from the PB! I was also using reduced fat Ritz....however, if you're like me, you find power and strength in numbers. In Duluth a few weeks ago, I promptly shoveled 5 of these in my mouth in less than 2 minutes. No lie. My mom just sat at the table across from me and said, "one more and go for a half dozen?" I said, "watch it, lady, one day I will be a professional triathlete and across my chest on my racing kit it will read, "powered by peanut butter."" Do the math: 5 pieces of goodness = 625 calories in your gut in a matter of 120 seconds. ouch. And it was like close to 9pm...and I try to refrain from any eating after 7pm. I am convinced that is why my 8.5 miler the next morning went so well :)
Other tidbits....thanks to a new pound of Breakfast Blend from Starbucks I haven't slept more than 5 hours/night since Sunday. This is not like me, nor is this good for me. I made an executive decision to refrain from any Breakfast Blend today with hopes of an early bed time. At this point, it could still happen. Run (hoping the quads are less killing tomorrow morning) on the treadmill followed by a swim in the pool is my plan tomorrow morning. The short sleep nights are going to catch up soon enough...so I'm REALLY hoping for a good one tonight. My training plan goal this week is 12.5 hours...most I have done in months....so I NEED the SLEEP. Which reminds me of Mark's text this morning. He was commenting on my FB status which was "my fav runbikerun workout this morning...y'all need to join me for this one sometime. it's sooooo fun!" He texted, "You need to join me for my fav drink eat sleep workout sometime." Maybe I'll take him up on it, especially the sleep part. And Lord knows if I eat and drink, I'll sleep.
