Wednesday

Josh called me a couple days ago asking if I'd run an outer loop with him at the forest Wednesday morning.  He's trying to build his endurance back up.  I agreed because why not haha.

Got up at 0615 and met Josh at the front parking lot at 0715.  Beautiful weather, I think it was 60* with the sun just barely coming up.  Unfortunately I think we were the first people on the trail, because for the first 40 minutes, we were just constantly eating spiderwebs.  A little over halfway, a couple cyclists passed us going in the opposite direction, and they seemed to have taken down most of the webs for that side.  Tried to let Josh set the pace for the majority of it.  Once we got to maybe 1.5mi remaining, I turned it up a little to make Josh work for it.  He kept up and we finished in 1:19:53.

Went home, ate breakfast, did my usual morning routine.  Then because I'm dumb I decided it would be a good idea to go to the gym for more suffering.  Got the gym around the usual 1:45.

5:00 rowing warm up on 10/10 resistance followed by 10:00 of stretching and foam rolling.

First:
Wanted to try something different, so I did 5 rounds of 2min on a Stairmaster at a hard pace followed by 1min on the rower with 10/10 resistance and going max effort.  My max effort on the rower was not great haha.  The first round was maybe 1:39/500m pace, then it dropped to 1:41/500m, then stayed around 1:43/500m for the remainder.  Really tough on my legs.  I was sweating buckets and out of breath by the end.

Second:
Changed into my swimsuit.  Jumped into the pool and did 5:00 of stretching.  Then into the hot tub for 5:00.  Then back into the pool and treaded water for 30:00.  It was going well until an older man started to swim laps in the same lane as me, so every 30 seconds I would have to hold my breath as his splashing and wake washed over me.  After that, back in the hot tub for 5:00, then changed and headed home.  Can already tell my legs will be sore tomorrow.