Coming Together
Yep, things are slowly but surely coming together. My fitness is slowly improving and this winter weight seems to be finally starting to come off. I still need to make a strong push on my nutrition before I tie the knot next month (a month from today, actually - ack!). I’d like to get down another five pounds or so before then. The official morning weigh in had me at 159.0. That’s the first time I’ve been under 160 this year, so I was all sorts of happy with that! What a great way to start the day! :)
Lets see… training wise, things have been going pretty well. I tried escaping the rain on Monday to get a quick run in, but that damn Mother Nature hates me and decided to drench me instead. I turned around at about the two mile mark and ran my butt off trying to eliminate the time I was outside in the rain. The good news is that I got home before my shoes were sponges. The bad news is that I think I’m realistically only capable of running low seven minute pace when I’m going all out. My last mile was something like 7:20, but my HR at the end was up in the lower 170s. And I don’t think I can hold that sort of pace for any significant length of time - maybe a 10k tops? I don’t know how the super runners like Steven and qcmier do it. They must have rockets strapped to their shoes or something?!
I had a really good bike ride yesterday. It was supposed to be a gorgeous day, but as soon as I got home it started getting cloudy. I thought for sure that MN was going to have her way with me again, but I didn’t care. I was so fed up with the crappy weather that we’ve been having here this past week and I just wanted to be outside doing something. Originally, I was going to ride 50-60 miles nice and easy, but instead decided to ride 30 miles at a harder pace. I felt good throughout and came home to find that I averaged 20.2 MPH for the ride! My average HR was pretty high so I was definitely working harder than I normally do, but it was good to see an average speed starting with a “two”. It gives me all sorts of warm and fuzzies like that. :) I’d like to really start averaging 20 MPH for my longer training rides and feeling like I don’t have to “push” to maintain that pace. Maybe by the end of the summer, I can get there?
My Hed Stingers arrived today (shortly after finally deciding what I wanted)! They’re all kinds of sexy cool and I can’t wait to try them out! Even she (I still haven’t named her, although it’s decided that she is female) is starting to come together:
As you can see, there are no tires for the wheels yet and there are no decals for the bike. I wrote to the LBS earlier this morning to find out what the hold up is there on those decals. How can it take two weeks to ship some stickers? I’m guessing someone forgot to drop them in the mail?
All for now. Have a great hump day, everyone! :)