Day 3

I first started thinking about doing 75 hard during the fall. I thought it would be a good way to jump start my training for Ironman 70.3 Mussellman in July. I did a little research and it seemed like something that would be do-able.

Then, I got a concussion during an orienteering race in mid-November. Well more likely I made it worse 2 days later doing a workout with Devils Press in it. Talk about brain rattling. And then waiting almost a week to start concussion protocols. But I digress.

It has been a long recovery. I’ve run once since then and it didn’t go well. Since that run I’ve been slowly increasing activity and trying to do things that don’t make my head move (upper body, bike trainer etc).  I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to do the 2 – 45 mintue workouts daily.

A co-worker who did 75 Hard pointed out that all the workouts don’t need to be hard sufferfests. So I’m planning to incorporate yoga and walks (rucks) as some of my workouts.  I’ve found that classic skiing has been okay for me head. As long as I don’t fall!!

Here’s a pic from my chilly ski this morning:

01182020 – Snowshoe

We got 5ish inches of snow overnight. We were expecting more so that’s a little disappointing. Knowing the snow wouldn’t quite be ready for skiing or fat tire biking. I decided to be helpful and snowshoe on the bike trails.

It was a lot slower than running or biking! I was the first one on the Conundrum trail. Someone had run parts of 45 North and maybe someone had skied part of it too. I didn’t see any one out there the whole time though. Except for the PistonBully grooming the ski trails.

I did some extra exploring too and got up to just over a 5k. I found a cool area between the road and train tracks that I’ll try to remember to check out in the warmer weather!

01152020 – Swim

It’s been awhile since I’ve been in the pool. My shoulders already felt a little sore from yesterday so I didnt want anything super intense but needed to get in the water. I ended up doing a 100m warmup and then 50m with paddles, 50m free, 50m with kick board and then 200m. I worked up in 100m increments to 400m.

I’ve never used paddles before so that was interesting. I will need to do some research on using them to make sure I do it right. The 50m right after felt super smooth!

I ended up with 1300m total over the workout, plus the 200m with the kick board that my watch never picks up.