I have been nursing a wounded paw; inflamed Achilles tendon actually for the last three months or so. So, I haven't done any real workouts since I stopped running with the "Goofy Clinic". I figured that my real goal races are ATB (Around The Bay) in Hamilton, March, and The Ottawa Marathon in May. No sense in pushing through an injury when I should be off-season training. But I hate to let all that cardio slip away.
Last night I went to the gym and sat on the bike for 50 minutes (55 with cool-down) 18.25 miles. Then I got on the stairmaster for 30 minutes (35 with cool-down) 2.75 miles. WHO HOOO!!! Then I spent 15 minutes stretching ... Not bad for a beginning workout. However, the gym seemed to have lost the music. They have these head-phone things ... you plug in your own headphones & the first 4 channels are the tvs. They have 8 tvs in front of the cardio stations two banks of four ... supposed to be all on different stations ... maybe a little something for everyone. Last night only 3-feeds were available ... I don't mind I don't like the tvs anyway. But the top 4 channels are supposed to be MUSIC - again a little variety. But last night I had 4 channels of nothing!!!! FFS! and when I asked the kid at the desk he looked like I had just spoken Klingon to him. He had no idea what I meant & although I asked him to get someone else to look into it he never did.
NOTE TO SELF: I own 3 mp3 players ... ensure that one is charged & in my gym bag at all times.
... what went wrong ...
So, like I was saying, sore paw. I was expecting to be hobbling like a freakin' cripple this morning but for the first time in eight weeks my foot does not hurt. Go figure, maybe I just needed to do some real stretching. The training clinic for the Ottawa May Marathon starts this week. I won't be registering but I will be training ... so here we go!
Bring it!
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