Not so sure what went wrong but I'm pretty sure that it had something to do with the fact that it was like 15 degrees out. Ok, I'm exaggerating. It was 23 degrees out. It was cold enough that all of the melting snow had turned into ice and the shoulders on the road were completely covered. And cars were being really mean too. Usually I wear Pearl Izumi lobster gloves when it's this cold out, but yesterday I wore my fingered gloves and I'm glad that I did. I had to use a certain finger once or twice :-)
Anyways, back to the workout. It was short hill repeats which is good when you live in Michigan. Do you know how hard it is to find a hill that takes longer then 3-4 minutes here? Normally I really like hill repeats, but not so much yesterday. I felt awful. It was super cold out and I had so many layers on that I could barely bend my legs. If I were giving myself a grade I think it would be an A for effort, but C- for performance. From now on I'm going to try to do intervals inside on the trainer when the weather is nasty, and then longer rides outside.
After riding outside I went and worked out with Jason and got a really good strength workout in. I did one of my favorite workouts (Bulgarian split-squats) and totally feel it today. I'm walking around like an old lady and could use a walker!
Luckily today is a rest day and I'm taking full advantage of it. Last night was the Mel Trotter undie-fundie-raiser and we stayed out much later then I'm used to. I think I only got about 5 hours of sleep last night, which is not enough. Right now I feel like a walking, talking zombie. Time for a nap I think!
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