Walk

Long 10 hour work day, but after work got on my young green mare Whisper and I got her to trot around the entire round pen a few times each direction. HUGE accomplishment, as the day before we got only half way around the round pen trotting. She is a quick learner, so progress is fast.

Walked Quin and Tucker 5 miles to McCaffery Rd, everything takes longer with Quin the puppy in tow. But they seemed to have fun. Had first meeting of Cows and Llamas for Quin…he thinks he is intimidating, thank God I keep him on a leash (or he might have been squashed into a cow/llama hoof shaped impression). Hip hurts and day ran out, otherwise I really wanted to go on the eliptical for an hour and lift weights…have to wake up early and do a two a day work out tomorrow.

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/30/2008
• Time: 07:30:00
• Total Time: 1:30:00.00
• Distance: 5 miles
• Average Pace: 18:01.08/mile

Feel good, no stiffness, no sore muscles…makes me wonder did I try hard enough yesterday? Problem was it took my body quite a bit of time to loosen up between transitions, I couldn’t even really let loose my run until after I had gone three miles and only had a mile left to run. Finally my stride could lengthen out and I had lots of sprint left at the end which made me mad actually ( I shouldn’t have had that much left)! Interesting tidbit though, while doing the 14 mile bike portion I almost hit a deer…yes a whitetail deer and I got up close and personal.  Not that I have not hit deer in my vehicles and been close to them in nature, I just was surprised. Walked dogs today, they as always, had a blast.  Hips a little tight, that is only after effect of triathlon.

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/26/2008
• Time: 19:00:00
• Total Time: 00:30:00.00
• Distance: 3 miles
• Average Pace: 10:00/mile

Quick two mile walk this morning before horse race, and paced 3 mile walk this evening with dogs. Quin (cairn terrier) doing much better after being de-nutted (he doesn’t even know they are gone). Prep work for tomorrow done, excited about my first sprint triathlon of the year (kayak, bike, run). Should be fun, hope it doesn’t rain!

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/25/2008
• Time: 20:00:00
• Total Time: 1:00:00.00
• Distance: 5 miles
• Average Pace: 12:00/mile

Had fun with the dogs at Herron Park, they had a fun chasing everything (except Quin was on his leash as he is a wild man).

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/23/2008
• Time: 16:00:00
• Total Time: 00:45:00.00
• Distance: 3 miles
• Average Pace: 15:00/mile

Got good quick walk in with the dogs.

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/22/2008
• Time: 18:00:00
• Total Time: 00:40:00.00
• Distance: 3 miles
• Average Pace: 13:20/mile

Second of two recovery days from 1st 50 mile endurance ride on my horse, legs still feel a bit beaten but are coming back to life. Took my two dogs and my mothers 3 dogs for a 4 mile walk, was a beautiful day. Sunny, wonderful…got me thinking about starting a dog walking gig as so many people asked about my bountiful pack of canines. Biking and swimming have been bad for a week or so, coming back to my parents for the summer is hard on my training but I am getting up earlier to train (5 am) so I have energy to and so I can work after. Motivation is tough right now with my sore legs, just barely hanging in there. First kayak, bike, run triathlon is in 7 days..eek!

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/19/2008
• Time: 10:00:00
• Total Time: 1:00:00.00
• Distance: 4 miles
• Average Pace: 15:00/mile

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/13/2008
• Time: 01:30:00
• Total Time: 1:00:00.00
• Distance: 3.5 miles
• Average Pace: 17:08.57/mile

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/09/2008
• Time: 05:40:00
• Total Time: 1:00:00.00
• Distance: 3 miles
• Average Pace: 20:00/mile

Can’t seem to do much except study and walk the dogs this week…yesterday got to work out and even though I still got some excersize today, did not get enough. How do college athletes compete and keep from failing all their classes? I am having such a rough time this week..only three more tests to go and I will be done with the semester!

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/07/2008
• Time: 08:48:00
• Total Time: 1:00:00.00
• Distance: 4 miles
• Average Pace: 15:00/mile

walked with Q and T, not as long as I wanted to give them, but it was better than nothing.

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 05/01/2008
• Time: 15:30:00
• Total Time: 00:30:00.00
• Distance: 1.5 miles
• Average Pace: 20:00/mile

Today I did a run through of a short triathlon as my workout. Managed to bike 30 min, run 30 min, and then swam for 45 min after. Took Q and T dogs for walk. Not quite at race pace but it was good to get a feel for doing all three in a row, one right after the other. Have such a hard time with training the last few weeks, feel like I have not been getting much faster, bought both the triathlon magazines that I could find at Hasting’s books in hopes for some advice that might take me past this plateau.

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 04/30/2008
• Time: 08:50:00
• Total Time: 00:40:00.00
• Distance: 2 miles
• Average Pace: 20:00/mile

Hiked up Rattlesnake, beautifull blue sky day probably 55 degrees, dogs had fun!

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 04/29/2008
• Time: 03:45:00
• Total Time: 1:40:00.00
• Distance: 4 miles
• Average Pace: 25:00/mile

great workout today, hiked 4 miles, bicycled 6 miles, stair stepper for 34 min, eliptical for 30 min. Good day in general.

So folks what are the best off road/road versatile cycling shoes, what price should I be paying for a good pair????…(velcro is necessary I have come to this conclusion, because I need fast exits for my triathlons). What about transition bags? What all should I be packing in this transition bag…any little un-obvious details that I might miss?

A little sore from yesterdays 20 mile fast paced ride on my horse, but not as bad as I would have thought.

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 04/25/2008
• Time: 04:30:00
• Total Time: 1:20:00.00
• Distance: 3 miles
• Average Pace: 26:40/mile

Took dogs Quin and Tucker for walk, slow going with the puppy Quin…he has to sniff everything!

Workout:

• Type: Walk
• Date: 04/24/2008
• Time: 04:30:00
• Total Time: 00:40:00.00
• Distance: 2 miles
• Average Pace: 20:00/mile