Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Log 1/28-2/2

Monday:
I intended to run 5 miles but accidentally ran 7 miles.  This happened because I prefer loops to out-and-back courses.  The loop got too big.  I also freaked out my wife because I was gone for so long and forgot to bring my cell-phone with me.  I did this run with a heart-rate monitor and successfully kept my heart-rate my aerobic zone.

Tuesday:
Swam laps for 30 minutes at the Orem Rec. Center.

Wednesday:
Today I went for a 5 mile night run on an undisclosed multi-use path currently under construction.  I don’t know who plowed it, but I was sure glad they did.  It is going to be really nice once it is completed.  I saw around twenty deer eating the vegetation in various backyards along the way.

Thursday:
Swam laps for 60 minutes at my weekly swim class.  I am surprised at how much I have improved in just one week.  Swimming is great cross training and really works the anaerobic system and is great strength training.

Friday:
This morning disaster was narrowly averted.  There is a cool path which circles Orem Community Hospital here in Orem.  The path is just over a mile long and really nice.  My original plan was to run 5 miles on the path but I chickened out.  It was just too dang cold at 5:30am.  So I went to the Orem Rec. Center.  Once I get there I realized my towel was still at home, drying from last night’s swim class.  Despite the cold and lacking a towel, I decided what the heck, there’s a pullover in my bag that can double as a towel.  I ran 5ish miles on the Rec. Center indoor track.  My heart-rate did not leave my aerobic zone until the very end of the run.

Saturday:
Swim Class.  Swam laps and did various drills for 60 minutes.

This has been a good week.  I got in six quality workouts.  Excited for next week.

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