I had another wonderful weekend last weekend. On Saturday, after asleep-in & lounging on the couch reading the papers, I did 70mins on Apollo as planned before later in the afternoon heading in with R to pick Owly up, and then drop in & chat to Ellie before arriving at Chez Lulu ahead of evening of pizza, wine & catching up with some of my favourite people.
After everyone headed off to the start of C2S on Sunday morning, I walked down to Bondi, bought the papers & sat in one of the cafes on the south side of Bondi overlooking the water & had a lovely & leisurely breakfast. About an hour, breakfast, 2 coffees & 2 newspapers later, I walked down (up?) to the northern end of the beach to meet the rest of the cheersquad. A few memorable moments - though I could really have done without seeing 3 Borat's in, um, full flight though. Ick. After the race it was off to the pub to catch up with everyone & admire and covet a few nice shiny buckles ;-)
A swim (1.25k), laziness, chocolate souffle, tiredness & other 'stuff' (including of course my glute/core stuff) have been the order of this week. I sat down on Wednesday & wrote out a rough outline of a program (it still needs a few details) so I actually have some degree of structure to my training as opposed to my current 'whatever mood takes me' approach - particularly given that it will be some months before I am running long again. The program however somewhat resembles a program that a triathlete might have - well, except for the lack of running ;-)
Leaving work a bit early today (Friday) to head down to the snowy mountains & Canberra for the weekend. I have never been down to the snowy mountains (a disgrace, I know). So there will no training (except for my glute/core exercises) and my first skiing and/or snowboarding experience - though between you & me, I'd prefer to be climbing up the mountains... ;-) My hip has been feeling really good the last week - hopefully it (and all my other bones & ligaments) will still be fine on Monday morning :-)
8 comments:
First Time skiing - yay!
The mountains are great. Skiing is just like trail running, uummm but different ;-). Lots of fresh air and the the great outdoors.
Have fun!
I like the sounds of your training Jen, especially the food, cafes and laziness :-)
The last time I went snow boarding I got sick of embarrassing myself trying to get on and off the ski lifts that I began to walk the smaller slopes. Stupid Idea!
On that note enjoy your weekend it is good fun.
structure? wtf? thats no fun! ;)
enjoy the snowys jen.
first time skiing? u lucky devil.
yet to lose my skiing virginity myself.
work those glutes!
Have fun in the snow Jen. Very good for the lungs and alcohol consumption.
Don't break anything please!
Have a great time in the snow and we'll have to catch up next week.
I'm reading between the lines. Sub-30 at WS. Yes, you can do it.
Sounds like a very civilised way to 'do' C2S. Good to see you in the Cheersquad. Luckily the only Borat I saw was the purple one, and he was kind enough to wear flesh coloured underdacks under the suit.
quick, quick - how did the snowboarding go???
Hope you had fun in the snow Jen. Can't wait to hear all about it.
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