Back in the Game

The 2009 season has officialy begun. I had a great Christmast break. A full week of backpacking in Oklahoma followed by a week in Colorado for some skiing. I got back to Dallas at 3 am Sunday morning, slept a little, went to church, packed up and got to Tyler around 5:30 pm. From there I rushed off to a Track team dinner/meeting before making it back to my apartment to find out where the heck my 8 o'clock class was the next morning! Such is the life.

Track started Monday with a 1500 Time Trial. I wasn't sure what that was going to be like as I had run once in the last 3 weeks or so. It was not as bad as I expected and I went 4:47. Not fast by anyone's standards but for me it was ok.

Yesterday I definitely felt like I was a triathlete again. Here's a rundown of the day:
7am- wake up, eat 2 eggs.
8am- strength train for 1 hr, kind of sore from TT yesterday.
9:05am- quickly shower & eat a power bar before 9:30 class.
9:30-10:45am- Motor Development class
11am-12:30pm-Work on a small assignment for Motor Control & Learning, (different from Motor Development) make some quinoa, frozen veggies and chicken for lunch.
12:30-1:30pm- yoga
1:30-2pm- buy a couple text books
2-3:15pm- Motor Control and Learning Class
4pm-Easy 30min run
6-7pm- Teach spin class
7:15pm- Take off through the dark streets of Tyler to find the pool I will be swimming with
7:45-9pm- First swim practice with the Tyler Metro Aquatics
9:15pm-Bike home
10pm-Eat a BIG salad w/salmon, shower
11pm-G'night.

All-in-all it came out to be almost 6 hours of training. Thank goodness I haven't started working yet! The swim practice was fun, their all high school kids but not very fast as I'm starting out with the bronze group for now. I'll probably try to move up in a few weeks. I did fine except for kicking where they destroyed me, partly because my legs were trashed from the day and vastus medialis's were cramping on breastroke kick. Good day!

Today I'm definitely pretty sore and tight so I plan on attending 2 yoga classes sandwhiched on either side of track practice. Today is supposed to be a pretty easy day- 4x800 w/400 recovery jog. Thats the word on the street at least.

Less than 3 1/2 months to Collegiate Nationals!