26:00 Row + My Triumphant Return

Well, it's been one hell of a few weeks. Had a fairly successful move over Labor Day weekend -- if the current state of shambles the house is still in today counts as 'successful'. Ran my fall triathlon just over a week ago -- set a personal best time! 3 hours and 3 minutes (and some seconds. Probably). I compared my splits this year against years past and found that most of my time gains were during the transitions and not actually during the swim/bike/run, but I'll take what I can get. Considering that my 'prep' the week and a half before the race consisted of exercising once (one time. 1. uno. In 2 weeks. Might be some sort of personal anti-record) and eating nothing but take-out because all my food/cooking implements were still boxed up, I'm pretty pleased. And boyfriend even finished without drowning! Took him about 4 hours, but he's using it as an 'unfit' baseline. He promises to do better next time.

I took a week to recover -- spent an hour leisurely biking at the gym last Wednesday and went for a very short run last Thursday to work out some of the kinks, but that was about it. This week I'm back at it full-force.

Because I don't really have anything to train for anymore, I'm likely going to change up my workouts more. Dog still enjoys our runs, but I might lift more weights than I was. Perhaps take a class or two, even if I'm not wholly convinced they're burning any of ze calories.

Today I'm going to keep it short because Boyfriend and I have decided to tackle the last few (many) boxes taking up space in the living room today. Rowing machine + some ab work because my core desperately needs some attention.

Pre

Energy Level [1-5]: 4

Sore Areas: none

Yesterday: Wedding -- wine, beer, cake, chocolate, etc. etc.

Environment: Indoors - finally fall!

Workout
Equipment: rowing machine
Work Time: 31:00
Level: 8

Row:

Minutes	Intensity [min / 500m]	Distance Traveled [m]
0:00 - 3:00	~2:30
3:00 - 5:00	~2:15
5:00 - 6:00	~2:00
6:00 - 6:30	1:50-	+ 0 = 1490
6:30 - 9:30	~2:30
9:30 - 11:30	~2:15
11:30 - 12:30	~2:00
12:30 - 13:00	1:50-	+ 1450 = 2940
13:00 - 16:00	~2:30
16:00 - 18:00	~2:15
18:00 - 19:00	~2:00
19:00 - 19:30	1:50-	+ 1490 = 4430
19:30 - 22:30	~2:30
22:30 - 24:30	~2:15
24:30 - 25:30	~2:00
25:30 - 26:00	1:50-	+ 1420 = 5850

Core:

Time	Exercise
0:00 - 0:50	Plank + Leg Lift
1:00 - 1:50	T-Plank - R
2:00 - 2:50	Plank
3:00 - 3:50	T-Plank - L
4:00 - 4:50	Spider Pushups [x16]

Post
Energy Level [1-5]: 4
Stretch Time:8:00
Total Time: 60:00

Day After
Sore Level [1-5]: 2
Sore Areas: Back, Legs

Comments
A good first step to get back on the bandwagon! A little sore, but that's to be expected since I haven't done much recently. Plus I don't think sitting at my desk for hours at a time is doing me any favors -- need to look up ways to fix that...