Training Updates - June 17, 2011

Another week, more rain.  It almost seems like mother nature doesn't want us to train, but I refuse to have any of that and train right through it.

Jess
This week was probably a disaster week for Jess, she had an exam that she was writing and thus devoted all of her time to that.  But now after this it should be smooth sailing, and a whole lot of training en route to intact edmonton derby marathon..... (It's actually called the Canadian Derby Edmonton Marathon) in August.  I still haven't decided if I want to/can run that marathon in August so we'll see how that goes.

Kel
I think this is probably one of the first decent weeks I've had since my crash, but it's good to be back and going again.  There's no words that can describe how much being away from exercising sucks.  But here's a quick recap of the past week in my life of training

Last thursday: I just did a one hour ride on the rollers, you don't really ever appreciate how difficult something is till you do it for yourself.  Be it climbing a hill, running a course, and riding on rollers is no different.  There's almost no friction and it's horribly difficult just to keep going in one line and balancing because you literallly have no friction between your wheels and the cylinders.
Sunday:  Finally managed to go for my first run since the crash, and it was just kinda seeing if my knee could take it.  It wasn't too bad, the road rash stil hurts a little bit but the knee isn't horribly sore
Monday: Rest day
Tuesday: This was an epic evening ride on highwood pass, there was no cars on the actual pass portion which was great because it made for super easy riding where you could take up an entire line on sweeping corners and just hammer away at it
Wednesday:  I somehow thought it would be a good idea to squeeze in a run before a class of mine, and of course there is.....
a) never enough time, it takes longer than you ever think it will
b) if it looks like it will rain...... it will..... but only if you go outside to do something.
So of course those two inevitabilites happened, and Edward and I got absolutely soaked on the run, it was just a short 8.2 km that was run kinda slowly
Today:  I went on another 5 km run around my house, just trying to loosen up everything from yesterday, and keeping up my form for SF.  IT's going to be a long way but we're making it there bit by bit.

Tommorow is a rest day for me, and I'm greatly looking forward to it, hopefully I'll be able to do some of my longer runs. 

~Cheers