Roads I Have Traveled: Seattle

Last weekend:


This was a pretty uneventful drive since we got on I-5 in Eugene and didn't get off until our exit in Seattle. I-5 is about the most boring road in the UNIVERSE.

It started to snow as we came through the Tacoma area, but it turned to rain as we reached Seattle. We saw the Space Needle from a distance. My daughter and I rode with a gym friend and her mother so at least I didn't have to drive.

Week 13

This week:

Monday: Off
Tuesday: Swim 30 min
Wednesday: Bike 55 min
Thursday: Run 25 min (assuming it isn't 18 degrees that morning)
Friday: Swim 35 min
Saturday: Bike 55 min
Sunday: Run 35 min

Yesterday I ran on the treadmill in the hotel exercise room so I did get my Sunday run in. I hate treadmills.

It seems like my exercise times are staying fairly short, but bear in mind that I am only training for a sprint triathlon so the short times are okay. If I want to do a longer triathlon I will have to up the amount of exercise. I just want to make it through the first one before I think about any others.

Roads I Have Traveled

I don't get out much, so small things amuse me. This year, I am going to be traveling more than usual since middle daughter has quite a few out of state gymnastics meets. So I thought: what fun it would be to show some of the more interesting (or uninteresting) roads we travel. I don't know, maybe I am just a silly.

Here is what the top of the Willamette Pass looked like at about 7am Saturday morning:



And further on toward Chiloquin at around 8am:



I wish I could have taken a picture of the foggy road where I had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting 5 deer that were crossing. Or the turkeys that were running down the road earlier that day. But my husband was sleeping and it really wasn't possible to drive and take pictures.

As for the meet, my daughter did very well and placed in every event. She did her giants on the bars for the first time in a meet and she didn't fall off the beam, getting first place in that event.



This picture was taken during bar warmups. The guy standing below is my daughter's wonderful coach, Yuri. She really likes him and works very hard for him.

Week 12

Monday: Off
Tuesday: Swim 35 min.
Wednesday: Bike 1 hour
Thursday: Run 30 min.
Friday: Swim 40 min.
Saturday: Bike 1 hour
Sunday: Gone to Seattle so I am going to either be sitting at a gymnastics meet or sitting in a car.

Week 11

When will this stormy, rainy weather end?????

Monday: Off
Tuesday: 30 min swim (actually ended up more like 40 min)
Wednesday: Bike 1 hr (HA!)
Thursday: Run 30 min
Friday: Swim 40 min
Saturday: Reno
Sunday: Reno

There is pretty much no chance of any working out this weekend because we are headed to Reno for a gymnastics meet. Hopefully it won't snow too much so we can get the van over the mountains.

Week 10

I realize that I skipped a week, but I also sort of skipped a week when it comes to workouts as well. Too many other things going on, including rotten weather. So, I repeated week 9 last week, and now I am on to week 10.

Monday: Off
Tuesday: Supposed to swim, but the pool was closed so I did last Sunday's 35 min run.
Wednesday: Supposed to ride bike for 1 hour, but come on, it's raining and windy. No thanks.
Thursday: 30 min run
Friday: 40 min swim
Saturday: Brick--1 hour bike, 20 min run
Sunday: 40 min run

For my swim workouts, although I swim for 30-40 min, the workouts I use usually give short distances and lots of drills. I have been wondering how I would hold up in a distance longer than 100m. Last Friday, one part of my swim workout called for 2x400m with a one minute rest in between. I did both 400s in under 10 minutes (can't see the time clock very well without my glasses; I need to get a watch with a timer, BAD), which makes the time per 100m about 2:30. That isn't too far off my personal best 100m time of 2:15, and not too bad, considering I was taking it easy as I was afraid of tiring out quickly. I was very proud of myself for being able to keep up a steady pace for that amount of time! It is still pretty slow, but good for me.