#brick workout

[fortheloveofcows]

Tuesday night brick workout.

45min bike to 15min run.

First brick in a while. My right hip was angry yesterday and the run was a bit slow and hard. I’m having trouble looking forward to my races with how I’m feeling on my runs right now.

I think I’m gonna go down into Madison on Saturday and do my long bike ride on the bike paths there. So we’ll see how that goes. I may ride my road bike and leave the tri bike on the trainer. Mainly because I don’t know how great my rear wheel is right now with the trainer rides.

[running-engineering-cats]

Hi hi hi! I feel like I do this every week! I’m good at posting in the beginning but then the weekend comes and I don’t haha apologies! Sooooo last Friday I got up for TRX! And my friend came too which was fun! It was a good class - she does a set of pushups and abs every few weeks and it’s a really good one and we did it this week so I was definitely feeling it 💪🏻 And after trx and some errands (I didn’t have to work - summer Friday!) and it was so nice out and my legs didn’t hurt so I decided to go for a run! And it was really nice! The weather was great and I just trotted along and enjoyed myself 🏃🏼‍♀️ Scott was here this weekend too which was fun! We went to a party on Friday with a bunch of my friends and had a great time 😊 Saturday Scott and I ventured out for an open water swim! I recently got an inflatable kayak, so we alternated who same and kayaked and it worked out really nice! We both swam for about 15 mins with short breaks and it was really good practice. Open water swimming is so scary and soooo different from a pool. I was really glad we did this - it was really good practice 🏊🏻‍♀️ And Sunday we headed out for a nice brick workout! The ride was really nice, we kept it easy-ish and enjoyed ourselves. The weather was really nice too - not too warm and little wind so it was perfect. We got back to my place, changed quickly, and headed out to run! 🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🏻‍♂️ This run went SO well! I felt so great. I was giving good effort but it was just really good. I felt controlled but pushing it and it was right where I wanted to be. Our last mile was 8:46 and I rarely run that fast - I just felt really good! It was a great run to finish a good workout with my fave guy 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️ Overall it was a really nice weekend with Scott and friends! Made getting up early this morning for my swim a little tough, but I still did it! I did 1,000 yards and just kept things easy and simple. That’s always the best rule for Monday mornings I think 😜 And that’s what I’ve been up to! Hope you’re all doing well 💕

[sharingfitness-blog]

The Exercise of the Day - The Brick Merkin

[plantbasedtriathlete]

Productive day, but a potential setback

Today was my first official day of semester and I started it strong. I’d meal prepped the day before which let me get in a morning swim session. Got up at 6am went to the pool, did some longer distance sets than i’m used to (5x400m free). Then started with lectures and labs at 9am. Have to say the commute to the medical school from the pool on my bike was a work out on its own, theres a pretty big hill at the end of it. At 5pm when my pretty full day of lectures and labs was done I stayed in the medical school to do some studying for about an hour and half and then headed out for a run. 

The evening run was really lethargic, was pretty slow and my legs felt like lead, in addition my heart rate wasn’t exactly slow. At this point I have no idea if its because I had a few weeks off running before Christmas and then only trained on really flat terrain after that or if I was just feeling the long day and needed a bit of recovery. Also my ankle has swollen up again, hoping it is okay to train tomorrow, but still waiting on an MRI for it so need to look after it incase the damage I did last year hasn’t healed. Shall see how I feel tomorrow morning.

[fortheloveofcows]

Brick workout friday morning. 30min 🚴—>15min 🏃🏼‍♀️

Run felt good surprisingly. It’ll be a totally different story once I start riding outside again and then running off that. That’s for another day in the future.

Felt good to get the workout done in the morning cause finding the motivation at night has been really hard. Now mind you I got up early to do this workout, but still didn’t even get on my bike until after 7am. Oops. Luckily no one called with anything so it was fine.

[fortheloveofcows]

Tuesday night swim 🏊🏻‍♀️

Shoulder is still a little upset. But still fairly consistent with my swims.

Brick workout this evening. 45min bike 15 min run. 🚴—>🏃🏼‍♀️

This picture represents what I would have preferred to be doing, but alas I had to ride and run. I got it done. Felt good too. The run was sort of enjoyable on the treadmill.

It’s been so cold here. Any thought of getting an outdoor run has pretty much been out of question. Not sure if I might be able this weekend, I’ll have to wait and see.

[fortheloveofcows]

Brick workout last night after work. 🚴🏃🏼‍♀️

Felt ok on the run after, but my legs are just feeling tired. Probably because I’m actually getting most of my workouts in. Also probably cause I just ran the day before.

Had the best DA surgery yesterday. It went so well and the cow was a angel to work with. I mean I couldn’t have picked a better surgery candidate. I’ve had some really hard ones recently and I’ve really been doubting my abilities as a surgeon or even a vet on some of those days. I felt like a rockstar yesterday. Hoping that feeling stays throughout today too.

I’ve been having trouble finding the joy in work recently. Part of it is the “team work” that never really ends up being team work, just me running around picking up all the extra calls. People doing paperwork instead of helping out. It’s been frustrating. We’ll see how today goes cause I’m already not looking forward to a call that I know I’ll end up doing cause no one else will even though they have the time. But I am not on call and I have a swim planned for tonight. So I’m leaving early no matter what. Mainly cause my give a fuck is just gone.

[running-engineering-cats]

Hello hellooo!! Friday morning I got up for TRX and it was a fully class! Even some new faces which is always nice! It was a good class as always, I just love this class! 💪🏻 Saturday since the weather was rainy rainy and I missed my swim on Thursday due to a jam packed day, I headed to the pool. I wanted to do longer intervals to work on my endurance. And I had such a good swim!!! I did 100 yard warm up, then did 200, 300, 400, and 500 yards all continuous with short breaks in between. And they all felt great!! I worked on keeping my breathing in check by breathing more often when I needed to and that helped so much! I was so pumped after this swim, I felt great! I did a relaxed 300 yard cool down with fins to get to 1 mile. Such a great swim! 🏊🏻‍♀️ And today I got up for a ride to run brick! I was feeling unmotivated for this workout for some reason. So I bargained with myself that I’ll keep it short. The bike was okay, once I got warmed up I felt better. It was short and easy! The run went really well though! I didn’t take any breaks and just felt great the whole run. I was jamming and enjoying myself 🚴🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️ Besides this stuff, I’ve had a pretty low key weekend and it’s been great! I’ve definitely needed one of these 😊 Hope you all had good weekends! 💕