Back in the Saddle

After taking four months off, I returned to my triathlon class at the YMCA today. That is just one of a number of pleasant activities I can resume to now that I've passed that exam.

Today the only attendees were me, Lucy and Jessica (who came along as a one-off because they were on school holidays and the coach is fond of them), but it was wonderful to be running on the Town Lake Trail again. We spent most of the time doing a track workout at Austin High School, which is about 1 mile from the Y. After some running drills and a warm up, we ran 6 quarter-mile laps of the track with 1 minute rest intervals and were supposed to decrease our time on each lap, ie, get faster. This is a pacing exercise. And just to give you some idea of what poor shape I'm in, Jessica ran her slowest lap at 2:40, and her fastest at 1:20. I started with my slowest lap at 3:07 (UGH!) and ran my fastest at 1:49, but that last lap was murder and I was almost sick at the end. We swim on Wednesday