Endurance Turtle A journey through this turtles triathlon adventures

Nothing like dragging your bike on the back of your car all day for the much anticipated brick, only to realize that once you pump the tires, take the bike off and go to find your shoes…that they are not there. They are sitting comfortably in the closet at home instead of being with you at your car. Yes, this happened to me last night….major FAIL. I had forgotten that I went on a bike ride on Saturday and when I came home I put my shoes in the closet. Then Wednesday morning, in my rush, I thought my shoes were still in my car and walked right out. Despite all of this, I did decide to go for a run. I will call this my Forest Gump run…because I started runnin’, and kept runnin…tillI felt like turning around. I literally did the stop at no particular place on the trail and turned around. All in all I did 5.75 miles, which is really good for me. I normally barely get through a 3 mile run before I feel like dying…which starts to happen at mile 1. But last night I just figured I would use the time I had to cruise around. At mile 3.5 I did feel a little drained, but once I started going downhill I was good.

After the run I hung out at the parking lot with the other PTC people and chatted. It was nice, and I learned it was probably a good thing I didn’t ride because they were doing a lot of construction work around the bowl and it made everything one big Clusterf$*@k. After my run I quickly downed a PB&J and a Go-Tein drink, I also tried to keep warm since it was a little chilly out. Overall, a good workout and it feels good to be pushing the distance.

In other news, I got a fitness ball for my office:

I am already noticing that my body wants to be lazy and after just a few minutes I get uncomfortable in the position I am in and have to readjust…but it is just my body being a lazy! So we will see if it helps my back at all, I also have started to feel weird tingling sensations in my right arm and left leg in just the last two days. Not sure if it is caused by my position at my desk, but I don’t like it very much.

Not sure how much I will be able to work out this weekend, I have an appointment on Saturday at 1pm to try on a particular type of dress….add in the time it will take to get ready and I might not have enough time to workout. I will try though!