Catching up

Well I know I have been bad about posting these last couple of days but I'm catching up now to let you know how the training has been going. Wednesday I got up and made the miserable and always regretful drive to the track. I literally am in the car driving saying it will be over soon, after you're done you dont have to do anymore running for another 24 hours. It doesn't always work but somehow keeps me sane...not really even sure if it does that all too well these days...anyways here's what we did on the track.

5x300m
  
-the first 4 were completed in 60 seconds, for some of us *cough cough* ME that is booking it, my speed isn't where I want it to be quite yet but it will be there once the endurance increases. The 300's felt long and when brian told us the last one had to be in 57 I thought my legs were going to fall off. I have done these workouts for enough years to know that when running a 300 the first 100m is spent thinking about how bad the last 100m will be, the curve is where I get tired and the last stretch just flat out sucks. 300's also are short enough to still be able to sprint practically the whole thing but long enough where it feels like it will never end. that why I stick to 200's those are my jam.

anyways moving on...after the track I went home hung out until I met Zim back at the gym to lift. Zim has a big boy grown up job and has to squeeze working out in between conference calls, writing memo's, and punching numbers. Right now I'm "in between work" at the moment, hopefully some of these mom's will get tired of their kids soon and pay me to let them watch tv...I'm joking! I'm great at babysitting if the kids don't whine or cry or do anything remotely annoying. I'm rambling. Zim and I got a really good lift in together I am definitely still feeling it in the arms.

Pullers:

SA KB pulls- 3 sets of 8 each arm

Horizontal pull ups- 3 sets of 6

NG pull ups- 2 sets to failure

L- ups 3 sets

Med ball split jumps- 3 sets of 10-12 each leg

Standing alt. curl to press- 20 lbs. DBs 3 sets of 6 each arm

Ended with ab routine- 3 sets of planks with weight added and 3 sets of decline sand ball side to side abs.

After that I took another nightly walk with my best friend which is always a nice way to end the day. Most of the time I get to just vent and relax about the day but sometimes I'm so tired I just want to  highjack some kids scooter and take off. 

On to thursday.

Well thursday I got in the gym around 9 and asked meredith to put together a treadmill workout for me. Thursday was my speed day since I was planning on taking friday off. I told her to "take it down a notch" from the normal Meredith workouts because again it was speed day lots of short sprints with lots of rest. Well lesson learned, next time I will just get on the treadmill and make up something myself before I let her plan out anything again. She practically had me training to hike Mt.everest with the incline she put me on...my ass has been screaming at me for days now trying to figure out why it wont stop hurting. Once again, thanks meredith for the AWESOME (awful) speed day.

20sec on 40sec off (5 min)

    -incline 7 

    -speed 10.5/11

10sec on 20 sec off (10 min)

   -incline 10 

    -speed 11

10sec on 50sec off (5 min)

    -incline 15 

    -speed 11/11.5

20 sec on 40 sec off (2 min)

    -incline 5

    -speed 12

Needless to say that was enough workout for me for the day. I'm still feeling it, the plan is to start back on monday...sorry Memorial day but I will not be taking a day off to celebrate you...back to the grind.