tomorrow is march

where has the time gone? Tomorrow will be march 1st! School seems to be zooming by quickly, and I feel like I am struggling to stay afloat right now (blogging doesn't help things). This coming week and next are my "hell weeks". The onslaught of quizzes and midterms begins tomorrow with a psych quiz, followed by a chem midterm wednesday night (yikes!) and a kin midterm thursday morning and a psych quiz thursday afternoon. Next monday my chem 126 lab midterm (yikes yikes!!), a math II midterm on wednesday, and the following tuesday a psych II midterm. I hope I haven't forgotten any! I've been spending my time in West Mall studying, but I still feel unprepared for chem/kin for this week!

I other news, training has been going great! Logged two hard weeks, and I am cruising into an easy week for my UBC Duathlon this weekend. Knocked 17s off my mile time from two weeks ago, and I am just about sub 6! The feet are finally injury free and I am feeling great!

Here are some pics from my outside ride on wednesday- it was beautiful and sunny but freeezing cold!

IWBMATTKYT

I will beat my ass today to kick yours tomorrow.

Man I love those sufferfest videos! Just the right amount of taunting and ego bashing mixed with a great hard workout- good enough to fog up the windows of my little room! Training seems to be going very well, and I am finally getting happy about where I am in regards to my current fitness level. My track workout on tuesday consisted of: 1xmile, 6x400m, 6x tempo 100m. Brutal. But, I improved upon my mile time by 20s- now that's what I call progress!

My 12k race this past weekend went smoothly. I went into it with the mindset of just running to see what I could do- no goals or expectations (well... I really wanted to break 1hr, but I wasn't going to kill myself to do it) and I came out with a very positive experience. Great, rolling, hilly challenging course- beautiful scenery and great volunteer action! And to top it off I ran a 3min 20s personal best! New 12k time of 56'56. The best part was that my 5k/10k splits were faster than what I have previously raced this past year! I went through 5km in under 23min and my 10k mark was right around 45-46min- if it wasn't for those damn hills my total time probably would have been even faster. Overall, I left the race feeling positive about my abilities and feeling happy that training is finally paying off!

With another race less than a month away I am beginning to gear up for my triathlon season. I have a feeling that this will be a good year. I've been biking on the trainer wednesdays and fridays doing the sufferfest workouts, and swimming wed and friday mornings as well. Today, I added another swim in the morning, as I am hoping to swim 3-4x a week. If I want to get good- I need to put time into the pool! I plan on adding another bike a week to make it 3, but just a spin- not a hard core workout. My running mileage is slowly increasing after having done two long runs of 1hr30min, and two of 1hr15min. Feeling confident about successfully completing a half marathon in may.

Just to put it down on "paper" here is what my weekly workout schedule is going to look like:

Mon- off

Tues- SFU track team workout (intervals, high intensity)

Wed- a.m swim, afternoon cycle

Thurs- SFU track team workout (hills)

Fri- a.m swim, afternoon cycle

Sat- a.m SFU track team workout (intervals), swim in afternoon

Sun- a.m long run (70-120min), evening cycle (easy)

Time to hit the books for one last quiz before reading break! Home in 4 days- yahoo!!