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8 miles 48:38

Daytona Sidewalks

Again I had hoped to go longer but the foot ached again today so I cut it short.  I'm going to plan on backing off of the running this week and get on the exercise bike I purchased tomorrow (what great use of tense) and hit the pool more than a few times.

30 min on the exercise bike I purchased today from play it again sports.  It's pretty sweet.  It gives distance traveled (estimate of course), calories burned (estimate of course), MPH (estimate of course), and pulse.  I'm not used to taking pulse on runs but I wish I had to keep it on par with what I was doing on the bike.  I have the feeling though on regular runs my heart rate is lower than it was while I was on the bike today.  30:00 on the bike for 11.19 miles and 753 calories burned.  My pulse was between 130-150. 

AM Pool

Did 45 min of aqua jogging this morning with the first 10 minutes using the aqua belt. 

PM Bike

Rode for 30 min on the exercise bike.  I went, according to it, 11.72 miles and burned 802 calories.  I kept my heart rate even a little higher than yesterday as it was between 140-160 the whole time.  At 22.5 min I took the level from 5/8 to 6/8 for 1.5 min, then increased to 7/8 for 2 min then back to 6/8 for 1.5 min then back to 5/8 again.  I also did this yesterday but forgot to mention it.

AM Pool

I did 45 min of aqua jogging again with the first 10 min with the belt.  Tomorrow for my aqua jogging I'm going to simulate miles repeats.  Exciting!

PM Bike

Did 30 min on the bike doing the same thing as yesterday with most of it being at 5/8 level with an increase for 5 min to 6/8 and 7/8.  I went 12.21 miles and burned 838 calories according to the bike and kept my heart rate up around 140-160.  I'm really digging all the data the bike gives me as it is making me really push harder.  I'm going to start doing longer stuff on the bike and more interval type work on that as well.   Also the cross training is helping the foot a lot without me loosing much running fitness.  I think I've got a good system going now.  Starting next week I'll take my normal workout week schedule with long runs but I will replace the normal continuous runs with bike/swim.  Hopefully after a few weeks of only running 3 days or so a week I can start adding in more run days.  I think this will also put me on schedule to race again the weekend of May 12.  But we'll see how things go.

I did 4 X 5 min in the pool with 2 min recovery.  I got my heart rate up to over 160 on those intervals.  The total pool aquajogging was a little over 55 min.  I was going to do a bike workout in the afternoon but my legs were pretty tired so I called it a day.

6 miles 36:15

Daytona Sidewalks

Did 6 miles from my apartment on the sidewalks of Daytona.  The aquajogging really gave the foot a good rest.

PM Bike

30 min going 12.11 miles and burning 793 calories.  Usual pickup at 22.5 min for 5 min of 6/8 and 7/8.

10 miles 58:54

Daytona Sidewalks

Felt real good today.  I hardly noticed the foot at all and cruised through the run.  I'm really happy with the recovery the foot gets in the pool and on the bike and the level of fitness I'm able to maintain while doing so.