Thanks Leslie...

So it's been a long week. I feel like crap. Darryl and I, both of which shared the room in Penticton with Leslie I might add, seem to have caught the same awful deep lung cough that Leslie has had for a few weeks. Aaaarrrrrggghhhhhh.

Needless to say it was a pretty slow week of training last week and only now am I well enough to actually do more than walk without coughing up my lung.

I got to work today feeling like a bag of ...... rotten banana peels. Just spent and discarded. I had a couple hours off and finally just said to myself, screw it, bike. Off upstairs in the gym to the spin bikes I went. An easy ride for the 30 minutes I had to spare I figured was better than nothing.

After I finished, it turned out that I had another hour off from a no show client, so I did something I haven't done in almost 2 months. Weights. Yep, the powerlifters at the gym nearly had a heart attack (not from lack of cardio, which is could have been now that I think about it), but they thought I had converted back to heavy weights and less than 5,000 reps up a hill. I managed to get in a few sets for every muscle group, and boy was it hard. Since starting to really get into tri training I feel really, well, weak. I bet off my squat I have easily dropped about 150lbs, and a good 75lbs off my bench press. I have to lift up 45lbs plates all day at the gym and they are starting to get kind of heavy. I decided that I am going to try and get 2 or 3 easy, high rep, whole body training sessions in a week just to feel better. It was good to be back today.

Later on I had a another hour off and I wanted more biking. I was feeling really good by now so I thought I would take a chance at a spin class at the gym. I could only stay for the first half, but that was enough. I had some mixed feelings about how well 'spinning' actually translates over to cycling and I kind of questioned the whole 'stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down' part of it, but it was a really good sweat. My conclusions, good for cardio, bad for cycling for sport. Kudo's to all of those chicks I was with though, they are in fabulous shape!

Finally after work, it was swimming with Darryl, Greg, and Leslie. I'm glad Leslie had a good swim while Darryl and I were stopping mid set to cough our brains out. We didn't do too much. Longer sets, easy pace to get back into it. Not too much to report.

I have some time off tomorrow again, so I think I am going to head out to Strathmore on the bike from work. We'll see, but right now that's the plan. About 45km one way, I think. Maybe a 3h 30m ride. I'll let you know!

Stay strong!

Grizz.