Day Five

Today was awesome in all senses of awesome. I was at the gym in time for Spin Class, which oddly, didn’t actually happen. I was confused. I still did a pretty mean Spin workout though, 21km in 52 minutes. I need to get out there on a real bike though. I am sure it will be quite different.

After the bike I did a 5km loop in the treadmill in 28 minutes, again I am sure that time will be a little larger when there is not a belt moving below my feet forcing me onward. I credit most of my umff to the music though. When I have a good tune plugging on through my ear buds I can really give it my all. I should post my play list. I will have to see how I can do that without infringing on copyrights.

I may have given in a little too much today… I was running like a mad woman at pretty high settings. My knees are complaining. I will leave the running alone until Thursday I think. The Joint Solutions I am using are making a difference for sure though. I would be considerably more achy without them.

Turns out I did not miscount yesterday. I did my swim in 14minutes today. That made me so so so happy. I am slowly cutting out the breaststroke. Oh, I did hear back from the contact Elise at Iron Warrior about what the stroke requirements are for the swim. She said that any stroke is fine and that the event is fairly beginner friendly. That was nice to read. I can relax a bit. I forgot to ask about music though. I don’t know if I could push on without a beat in my ears.

It was a pretty productive morning. I did have to rush a bit to get to MacEwan training though, but it all worked out. I had time to grab some food and tea when I got there.

We had a great day at training too! The morning was all about events and the afternoon was marketing. I got a lot out of the presentations and exercises. Our group put together a real nifty plan for a Student Food Bank awareness event. We might even put it into action.

Our Events manager Craig Berry put on a great appreciation event and dinner for us after training today. It was really nice to hang out in a relaxed environment with everyone. I didn’t get to chat with everyone I wanted to but it was still really nice.

Oh I forgot to mention, Marlon, one of our managers also ran her first Triathlon this summer. It has been really nice to talk with her about training, fears and exceptions. There are so many great people on staff at the SA this year I am so excited to collaborate with other services and campuses on events and programs.

Thanks for stopping in. I’ll be back tomorrow.