Today was not meant to be. We went out and hacked down our Christmas tree, then I banged my head on the window sill as we were sorting out the room to fit it in. Then I made soup, sat down to eat it, and threw the entire thing over my thighs. It was exceptionally painful and I spent most of the afternoon/evening will ziploc bags of cool water on my thighs. The swelling has just about subsided now and it has left four blisters, but much smaller than I feared. I decided not to try to do anything else today as a result.
Hills58:47 8.84 km (6:39 / km) +99m6:18 / km ahr:152 max:181 shoes: Shiny red Sauconys
Run to work with 4 x 1 minute hills on the way. Felt pretty rough, did some strides, felt pretty rough on rep 1, pretty awesome on the rest.
9 AM
Cross Fit50:38 1.22 km (41:22 / km) ahr:124 max:168
Payne Whitney is much better at 9.30am than 5pm. I did some front squats, then 5 sets of thrusters, man makers and small box jumps (very small) focusing on fast rebound.
Running56:16 8.87 km (6:21 / km) +96m6:01 / km ahr:155 max:173 shoes: Shiny red Sauconys
Felt pretty tough out there this morning. Fine on the downs and flats, very slow and rubbish on the ups. Still, in the bank!
5 PM
Cross Fit43:10 1.59 km (27:13 / km) ahr:117 max:164
Rob came to the gym with me and it was much better today! We also warmed up on the indoor track and they have Rogue pull up bars down there! Yey! The gym just got significantly better. We did some squats, some leg raises, some press ups, some pull ups, and some lunges.
Tempo run52:29 8.84 km (5:56 / km) +103m5:37 / km ahr:167 max:188 shoes: Shiny red Sauconys
I skipped the gym today but I am very proud of making it anywhere near training. Foul weather all day, frozen ground, some ice rain, mostly normal rain, and freezing standing water everywhere. I tried to do tempo but it was a bit of a bust, all the downhill trails were raging torrents of very cold water and so my usual routes were not as fast as usual. Still, HR was above 175 most of the tempo time so not too far off. Happy just to have actually managed to train.