everything is tired

Thursday, Oct 12: 45 minute bike ride

Friday, Oct 13: strength training day

Sunday, Oct 15: iCycle, 40 mins, stationary bike - very hard work

Monday, Oct 16: Climbing at the gym for a couple of hours. I let myself fall a few times, trying to get up a 5.9. I can't believe how much trouble I have with a 5.9! How do people ever get good enough to do 5.11 and up? I had trouble opening doors later on in the evening.

Tuesday, Oct 17: Strength training at the gym this morning. Tonight, I went to the run clinic and we did six hill repeats up a very steep hill, with a walk back down. The idea was to train anaerobically so that we were completely out of breath at the top. It was a hard workout. I rode my bike there (over the Granville Bridge through downtown to the seabus, then on the other side up the hill to North Shore Athletics). It was a good warm-up to ride straight up Chesterfield Drive to the store. The North Shore is steep! After the run was over, I raced down to the seabus terminal, only to watch the departure clock turn over to 30 minutes, so I decided to ride home, which entailed a long ride to the Lions Gate, over it, and then back through downtown and the Granville Street Bridge. It worked out to still be faster than waiting the half hour for the next seabus.

Needless to say, my legs are very tired now. My whole body is tired and sore from climbing, the gym, and tonight. But it feels good. It means my muscles are working.