Long Week

Last week was rough! Work was much too stressful and the workouts were way too tough.

First off, my monthly reports covering my five counties were due last week as we released press numbers on Wednesday. After I already had two of them done, I was informed by my boss over our monthly conference call that we were changing the format of these reports slightly. This means I got to redo two of the reports I already wrote. That was awesome. I was on edge until Thursday when I finally sent in my reports. Then what happens? One of the other economists was reading through mine to check for errors and since she was running a little late getting it back to me I already sent it in... with errors! Yep, I had to quickly redo that one because I honestly have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote a couple sentences in there. Feeling good about that one!

The workouts were really tough last week. I go in 4 week cycles and last week was week 3, the hard one. Week 1 is build-up from a recovery week 4 previously, then week 2 pushes harder on into week 3 which is the peak for each cycle. Week 4 is the recovery week where I am now in active recovery rather than full rest recovery.

Since last week was my week 3 I was dying. Monday was a 6 mile run, Tuesday was upper body cross training, Wednesday was a 3 mile easy run followed by 2 miles of speed repeats, Thursday was another cross training workout done primarily with a medicine ball and the cable machine, then Friday was another 6 mile run (which was supposed to be faster than Monday, but it was much slower). Saturday was a pretty easy hour ride on the trainer followed by upper body for an hour. Now today starts the recovery.

Week 4 is always nice in the cycle because I get to take it easy, but I really hate taking these weeks. No matter how many times I go through these cycles I feel like I'm losing my fitness, when in all actuality it's gaining when I come back on week 1 with noticeable improvements.

In other news it finally snowed in town. It's been snowing up on the pass in the Cascade's, but not down here. It's actually remained quite nice for the last couple weeks, but yesterday the snow came and the temperature has dropped hard! Looking forward to some skiing finally. Hopefully there will be enough for a Thanksgiving opening and I'll actually have something to do. Otherwise I'm just going to hang out and train. Good stuff.