Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Flexibility and commitment will be the key

This week marked the third week of my out season training program, and work already tried to get in the way.  Monday evening,  I had to travel to Gainesville, Florida for work and woke up in a hotel Tuesday morning.  Looking at my schedule, I saw that I needed to do a 1 hour bike ride (which included 2-12 minute intervals at high intensity) followed by a low intensity 35 minute run with a few (three to be exact) 30 second strides thrown in for good measure.  My initial thought was to head to the fitness center and use a stationary bike for my ride, and follow it up with a run.  But because I really like training on my OWN bike (I'm still getting used to the seat), I opted to wait until I got home from my trip Tuesday evening.  That was almost a big mistake.

By the time I got home from the airport, I was hungry and tired, and the last thing I felt like doing was putting in 1.5 hours between a ride and a run.  So I changed plans again ... I decided I'd wake up early and do my workout for Tuesday on Wednesday, and then shift the rest of my workouts.  This meant that instead of Friday being a "rest" day, I'd have workouts until my next day off ... Monday.  As much as I didn't want to get out of the bed this morning to do my workout, I made myself and it felt great.  I really do enjoy working out in the morning much better than the evenings...

Here is a link bike workout.

And here is a link to my run workout.

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