Fridaaaaaaaaay!

Okay, I've been a bad blogger. But I'm still here.

I've had a pretty nice week. No complaints from the race, but my massage therapist said I was kind of tight. You know I'm a crappy stretcher.

I've lifted weights twice this week and run twice. Today I am enjoying my off day. Finally plotted an 11.5ish run for this weekend at the beach... Very flat, which is probably not good preparation for Atlanta, but I might come up with a new one before I actually go out that incorporates some bridges (we don't have hills here!)



There has been a big push to play tennis lately... I think Billy, Mike, Chris, and I were inspired by the Sampras/Martin match we went to. Don't know if that will be my cross training for this weekend but I definitely plan on making it to the JCA to play on Thursday for Ladies' Night.

In very good news, my skinny jeans fit! HOORAY! Although I told one of my girlfriends I think they fit from me trying them on so much and stretching them out! But it's still a nice little victory.

Weight A Minute

I have always liked to weight lift. Blame it on my 9th and 10th grade Girls' Weight Training classes: we'd do half a class of aerobics (to a tape, which is funny looking back on it!) and the other half was weights. I'll be honest here - they taught us more about how to do it than they did *why* we were doing it, what groups we were working, and how that would impact us in other physical endeavors (outside of a 80's Abs of Steel video). This is something I very much wish we had learned in school.

Yesterday I did my weight lifting at the good ol' JCA. I get my workouts from Weight Training for Runners, and I am currently doing the in-season training (just to get back up to speed on how to lift again, as it's been awhile.) Yesterday looked a little something like this:

* 30 min on the treadmill working on walking inclines
* Dumbell rows: 3 sets x 20 reps x 5 lbs
* Tricep kickbacks: 3 sets x 20 reps x 4 lbs
* Dumbell bench press: 3 sets x 20 reps x 7.5 lbs
* Lunges: 3 sets x 10 reps x 4 lbs (my quad was hurting, which was ODD for me)
* Leg press: 3 sets x 20 reps x 40 lbs
* Calf raises: 2 sets x 20 reps (it recommended a "calf raise machine" - what the heck is that?)
* 20 crunches (the ab cruncher machine thingie is a cruel mistress).

I am only doing two days a week at this point... I want to ease back into it now that I am at the end of my season, so that when I start my off season training in April I can do 3 days a week of lifting (and a new core training class I am super psyched about!)

Anyone else weight lift out there? Or are you like I usually am and consider "cross-training" to be synonymous with "12 ounce curls" only?