The trip back from the Catskills yesterday was pretty enjoyable - we got stuck in traffic on the Thruway but faced almost zero city traffic thanks to waze. I've decided to mostly switch my rest days to Monday because I think that there's a spin class that is convenient on Fridays. I'd like to take spin classes because I think that they will be more motivating than just using the stationary bike alone.
On Monday morning I did the weekly trek out to Trader Joe's for reasonably priced groceries. I went for a short swim in the pool to loosen up my muscles. I swam 500 yards in 9:51 and then waded around and floated my my back for a bit. I think that swimming up to 1500 yards on a given day is fine and doesn't interfere with my body thinking of it as a "rest" day. Then I picked up my dog (Lily) from my mom, she had puppy custody while I was in the Catskills because I was afraid of having her in an unfenced property on the fourth of July. Lily is absolutely terrified of fireworks and more dogs go missing on the fourth of July than any other day of the year. I am glad to have my fur baby back :-)
Today was quite muggy so I got my 5 done on the treadmill. I wrote a workout that I kept up with for the first 30 minutes before realizing that my body just didn't want to run any faster. My main goal is to hit my mileage without injury, so I improvised for the rest of the workout to get to 5 miles. I really wish that I'd snapped a picture to show just how swampy I get just from running on the treadmill in the air conditioning.
I've started reading A Race Like No Other by Liz Robbins to keep the inspiration level as high as the perspiration level ;-)
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