Journal of Pier Luck

Well, I ran 8 miles before my right knee wasn't feeling too good (it was that tiling, I know it, worse on your joints than marathoning). Dustin ran 4 of those with me, but he has a head cold, so that was all he could handle. Then, I went to TNT swim practice and swam 1700 meters. It felt good, but I was definitely tired. Our total from January until now are 30,150 meters for swimming, 605 miles of biking , and 152 miles of running. That should be more, but because of our break we took with the cruise, those numbers are "low." I just want to say if you are reading this and haven't been able to get into a good workout routine and healthy eating routine, you just have to set your mind to it. It was extremely hard getting back to our routine after that cruise, but finally, we just said, no more eating pizza and overeating unhealthy foods and we gotta start burning calories. Although most of you won't be going long distances, even running, walking, cycling, lif...

Catching up: Wednesday, March 14, I ran 11 miles around Ed Austin Park and on Fort Caroline Road. Thursday, we went to spin class with Bob and then swam 2300 meters. We returned home to finish our packing for our cruise! We left on Friday to drive down to Miami and stayed at Ruben and Michelle's (even though they were in NY). You can even see the cruise ships from their condo, so that was awesome! Saturday, we left on the Carnival Imagination with Toni, Allie, and many soon to be other friends! (Most of them, because they were fellow Kansas basketball fans). We had a great time, went to Grand Cayman and swam with the stingrays! Yeah, I can't believe we did that either! And then we went to Jamaica and climbed Dunn's River Falls, which was a good workout and very fun! I have some pictures on the website, but more will be coming for the stingrays and the falls. Those two days were the only "workouts" we got in on our vacation, but we had a lot of fun and met some awe...

Friday, we left for Salt Lake City, to ski with Thierry and Stef. Saturday and Sunday, we skiied all day. It was a lot of fun and none of us got injured, so that's good! We weren't even as sore as I thought we would be; probably because we had been biking so much, so our quads were in better shape than previous ski trips. We got back on Monday night and slacked off until Wednesday, trying to catch up with life. Wednesday, I ran 4 miles near our house and then we went to the TNT swim practice with Roberta and swam 1700 meters. Thursday, we went to spin class with Bob, but skipped swim because Shawn and Mia were coming into town and we didn't want to overdue it before the Gate River Run. Friday was our day off. Saturday, we ran the Gate River Run downtown; it's actually the National 15K championships. No, we didn't win, but we finished in the top 10%, so we got hats for that, which was very cool! Dustin finished the 9.3 miles in 1:08:54 (7:24 minute mile) and I...

Tuesday, as Dustin was still studying in the morning, I went for a bike ride on Wonderwood Expressway bridges for 15 miles in the morning before work; once again, beautiful day! That night after work, I went to Yoga and had to warm up with 3 miles on the recumbant bike. Wednesday, couldn't get myself out of bed in the morning, so I ran after work-9 miles a couple times around Ed Austin Park and down Monument to Fort Caroline and back, got some rolling hills in so that was good and was able to maintain around a 8:18 pace. After this, rushed home, ate dinner with Dustin and then went to the Team in Training Social Tonight, Thursday, we were WAY too busy with LIFE to workout unfortunately. Tomorrow morning, we are on a plane to Salt Lake City to visit Thierry and Stef, so we had some shop to clean up with our business, with my other work paperwork, of course packing-which meant we had to find all of our ski stuff we haven't gotten out in forever, which took longer than expected...