More Vacation Training

Well it's Saturday morning, and this little tropical vacation is winding down. We leave today around 1:45pm. As promised, here's a little post about the rest of my training during this trip.

Monday I wasn't feeling super great..tired and a little uninspired to go train indoors again. But I got up, got ready, and hopped on the treadmill for what actually turned out to be a great run. 10min. warm-up, then 5x 2min. hills/3 min. flat. The hill sections got higher with each rep. After the reps I ran at just below 5k pace to finish out 5 miles, and called it a day.

Wednesday I fell in love with a new trainer workout. 10min. warm-up, then 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 climbing reps with equal rest between. It made the hour fly by! On some of the reps I sat the last minute or two and really tried to push it in a big gear, which hurt but was also great. I did a half hour of strength and core, and was done.

Thursday was an off day! I was gone on an excursion from 7am to 6:30pm, and by the time we got back it was dinnertime for sure. I think it was probably good for me to take a day off, too! I didn't necessarily felt like I needed a day off, probably because I'm only working out once a day here, but still I know it was good for me to take a little break.

Friday I woke up and had some serious stomach issues. I thought I wasn't going to be able to run at all! But by 7am it seemed better, so I headed back to the treadmill for some more hill repeats. I only made it 30 minutes before I had to stop. The run itself wasn't great either. But I'm glad I tried! I got in a half hour of strength (no core! That would've been asking for a disaster!) and that was it.

This morning I thought long and hard about sleeping in for just one day on this trip. But then I decided I really didn't want to sleep in..or anyways I convinced myself I didn't. Got on the spinner bike and did the pyramid climbing workout again. So fun! After that I got in a short core session, and that's it!

All in all I'm pretty happy I was able to continue training, at least to a certain degree, on this vacation. It is possible to train on vacation, it just requires some dedication. For me it required getting up at 6am every morning, but I would've been miserable if I didn't train. And maybe the best part of it all was indulging in pina coladas and the buffet guilt-free! :)

Vacation Training

First off, please excuse any poor grammar or misspellings in this post! Im typing from a keyboard synched to Spanish!

Im on vacation in Puerto Vallarta with my family right now, and thought Id write a post about how Im maintaining training as best I can here. Although we are on the beach in a tropical paradise, I havent been able to swim since we got here 3 days ago. The current in the bay where the hotel is is strong with a nasty undertow, so swimming in open water is highly discouraged and risky. There is also no lap pool here. Just a 10m water polo pool..and I havent been able to bring myself to work out in it for two reasons. 1, Id have to flip or turn every four strokes or so. And 2, there are no lane end markers in the pool, so I would inevitably slam into or completely miss the wall!

But I have been able to train every day so far. On the first day I got up at 6am (3am Oregon time!) and was on the treadmill by 7am. I ran 35 minutes, then did a strangth session. Im glad the gym here has a stocked gym, because Ive been meaning to incorporate strength into my training for awhile now..and the limited training options here make this the perfect time! As for the treadmill run, unfortunately none of the roads around here (of which there are only 3, actually) are necessarily safe to run on. No shoulder, sidewalk or lights, and drivers here certainly arent looking out for pedestrians on the narrow two lane cliffside highways. So its the treadmill for me!

Yesterday I was up and at the gym by 7 again, this time for an hour on the spinner bike. I dont remember the exact workout, but it involved about 10 minutes of warm up, then some 1 minute reps of: 1 minute climbing out of the saddle on a high gear, followed by 1 minute recovery. I did maybe 4 reps, then went straight into TT/tempoing for about 20 minutes, with a few climb intervals thrown in. After the tempoing was a short recovery, then more climb reps, then more tempo. The whole ride was only an hour but it hurt! I did a short core workout after that, and called it a day.

Today I wasnt able to work out first thing in the morning, because the whole family was up and out the door by 7:30 for a zipline adventure tour, which was so fun! But once we got back to the hotel and Id laid in the sun for awhile, I started to get bored and antsy, so I headed to the gym around 4pm for 45 minutes on the elliptical and a strength session. A stabalizer muscle above my left ankle has been bothering me since my first tready run here, so I figured ellipticaling would be a good alternative to a run today. It felt great, and was the perfect way to ease the tightness in my quads from yesterdays spin.

Ill post again when Im stateside about how I managed training over the last 4 days of my trip!

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