Thursday, May 28, 2009

Fast and furious


No, not me unfortunately. Well, furious, maybe, but certainly not fast.

The truth was glaringly apparent yesterday, as I did a little workout with my friend Nat. We decided enough of our usual 'pussy-footing around' workouts and went for a little speed work by running pickups last night.

Did a little warm up (also at a pace that was faster than current-usual). Then we did six one-minute pickups with some longer recover pieces in-between.

YIKES.

I could feel every single lb of stored winter (okay, SPRING) weight that I've packed on. Nat really got ahead of me on the pickups, which was fine and depressing at the same time.
Proved to me -- again -- that I have got to get it back together and get in to training. Not having fun, but training. (Not that training isn't fun.... it's just hard.)

This also applies to biking and swimming.

We have a whole, huge Posse of people that are training for some tris this summer. None of us joined a formal training program this year, for one reason or another.

For one, most are waaaaay to expensive. For another, we can't find one that any of us really love any more. Most of us really, really, really miss having a training group. The one that we were all so heavily involved with evolved in to a really not-very-fun place to be, which is just a shame.

I really envy the bloggers that I follow who have great tri or running training groups.

Our group is pretty good about getting together and getting workouts in. Truth be told, though, we are all a little bit on the "let's just take it easy" side.

I need someone like Jillian from Biggest Loser yelling at me to do "MORE! FASTER! STRONGER, HARDER!"and to "PUT THE FORK DOWN for chissake!"

Anyway, I digress:



The Posse got together for a bike ride last Sunday. We were out for about 2 hours. Great company, great back on the bike, great trail. Except for Nat, who got a flat tire.




In any event, fun (but slow) ride.


As far as the furious thing... well, that is a topic for another post.




2 comments:

Beth said...

Nat says that you are volunteering at the finish at the marathon this weekend. I am too- if I see you I'll say hi.

Dori said...

The way I remember it, even as a training group we were a tad on the "let's just take it easy" side. I miss having a real group that is dedicated and has an actual coach (like we had). But they still get me on the road when I'd rather be on the couch.

Did you keep the training programs from Club Run? That's a good place to start. You've got the base, by training for your half. Now work on hills and speed. Your pickups run is a start--good job!

I don't have any experience with triathlon training. Maybe you can find a book you all like that has a training plan in it. You can do it!