Well today was the first official day of training for my 5k marathon run, and boy am I in for a long journey...and I thought the adoption process was hard! Holy cow, I thought I was gonna die, but I didn't . I survived, just so that I can do it again tomorrow...and the day after...and the day after that :)
Today was what they call a cross training day. This is to help build up your endurance. Instead of going to Olena's school after work to pick her up, I went home, enjoyed a few brief moments of silence. I stretched to warm up, hooked up the bike trailer and hit the road. I rode around my block twice to get my blood flowing, and then I bolted for her school. I rode that bike like I was being chased by the mob. It was exactly 2 miles there so I huffed it as fast I could, and made sure I never stopped pedaling. When I got there, the teacher was looking at me like I was some weirdo, I was all sweaty, panting and my legs were wobbly. But I got Olena's things told her to run with me out to the parking lot. I put her in the trailer, hopped back on and rode off again like the wind :) Pedalled my heart out, all the way back home. Olena thought it was great, she kept telling me "faster mommy faster" When I got home and in the back the yard I was so tempted to just fall flat on my face in the grass, but I didn't. Instead I managed to cool down by playing a little kick ball with Olena in the yard, and we played on the swing set. After about 25 minutes I crawled my big butt up into her fort, laid down and then died!
It honestly wasn't too bad after it was all said and done. Though I think Mother Nature had it out for me today because that wind was pretty strong and it seems that I was riding against it on the way there, AND on the way back. How does that work? Hope tomorrow goes just as well. I'll keep you posted!
Today was what they call a cross training day. This is to help build up your endurance. Instead of going to Olena's school after work to pick her up, I went home, enjoyed a few brief moments of silence. I stretched to warm up, hooked up the bike trailer and hit the road. I rode around my block twice to get my blood flowing, and then I bolted for her school. I rode that bike like I was being chased by the mob. It was exactly 2 miles there so I huffed it as fast I could, and made sure I never stopped pedaling. When I got there, the teacher was looking at me like I was some weirdo, I was all sweaty, panting and my legs were wobbly. But I got Olena's things told her to run with me out to the parking lot. I put her in the trailer, hopped back on and rode off again like the wind :) Pedalled my heart out, all the way back home. Olena thought it was great, she kept telling me "faster mommy faster" When I got home and in the back the yard I was so tempted to just fall flat on my face in the grass, but I didn't. Instead I managed to cool down by playing a little kick ball with Olena in the yard, and we played on the swing set. After about 25 minutes I crawled my big butt up into her fort, laid down and then died!
It honestly wasn't too bad after it was all said and done. Though I think Mother Nature had it out for me today because that wind was pretty strong and it seems that I was riding against it on the way there, AND on the way back. How does that work? Hope tomorrow goes just as well. I'll keep you posted!
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