New Workout, New You

I began a new weightlifting program last week, which was on my schedule as “strength” for an hour, two days. The first day left me sore for the rest of the week.

Also, I ran 6.2 miles on Saturday, the longest I’ve run since August. No knee pain, but my quads were throbbing from the weight lifting last week. My legs were numb by the time I got home. Hills are hard!

The schedule for this week is a little light. I debated whether or not to take a rest day on Monday this week, seeing as how I had worked out for the previous 7 days straight my muscles were TIRED. But the flip side to that coin is that Aaron and I are going on vacation for 10 days starting Friday night, so I have some built in rest days at the end of this week while we’re flying to San Francisco. In the end, I decided to take the rest day Monday. I was just exhausted from the increase in training last week.

I met all my goals for last week, and felt really strong from the weight lifting.  But yesterday I went to the gym after a very, VERY long day of traveling for work, and I decided I should run my intervals before lifting.  So I got on the treadmill, ran a 10:00 mile to warm up, and then ran my intervals.  When I got off the treadmill, I went straight to the squat bar, and immediately felt pain in my right quad and left hamstring.  I finished lifting, but my quad and hamstring got increasingly tight, making lunges really difficult later on.  I tried to stretch really well, then took some ibuprofen and iced down my injuries when I got home.  I even had Aaron take a rolling pin to my hamstring.  I’m hoping they’ll feel better by tomorrow so I can lift well, since I won’t be lifting at all next week.

We’re going to San Francisco for 10 days.  We have a rental car, and we’re taking our bikes.  We’ll be riding in Santa Cruz, and have plans to stay in Lake Tahoe for 2 days and bike around the lake.  After that, we might head up to Portland.

There will be lots of photos up on Flickr.

Schedule for the week:

Mon: Rest

Tues:  Strength, 1:00 and Run, 0:30

Wed: Swim, 1:00

Thurs: Strength, 1:00 & Run, 0:35

Fri: Swim, 1:00

Sat: Travel

Sun: Bike?  3:00? in the CA sunshine?