A Fun Weekend!

Well apparently last week was a bit of a rest week, although somehow I didn’t really realize it until about Wednesday.  Basically all I did during the week was swim (including a long, 4000 yard swim! Ahh!), and then some biking and running over the weekend but nothing too much.  I wish I had realized it earlier and taken a bit more advantage of it, but oh well.

On the plus side, it did mean I got to add in a couple “extra” things because I had time and wasn’t too tired!  Having time to do some purely "fun" workouts was really good for me mentally, I think.  On Friday, after a swim and a bike ride, I went and ran with Katie.  She did AWESOME and I’m excited to see her improve in the next few months; she totally can, she just needs to believe in herself a little more!  Pacing her was a lot of fun, it let me focus on something else, and it was just exciting to see her push herself too, and be super happy about it.

Then on Sunday, after an easy run, Mac told me to make Kyle go mountain biking with me.  ;) I really wanted to go mountain biking, but I don’t think I realized just how much I wanted to go until I was there!  I had so much fun even though we weren’t even there tooooo long.  Just enough to do a bunch of fun stuff, and just have a good time.  Somehow, it was incredibly relaxing, even though we literally were just doing drops and jumps which is kind of stressful…but so fun.  Maybe it’s because I was feeling so confident—surprising, considering I haven’t been on the mountain bike much at all lately.  But I did the drop on Ryan’s Line twice (second time felt the best it ever has, and Kyle agreed I landed it really well), some practice drops in the center clearly (including the big one, which I’ve done plenty but for some reason always psyches me out, probably just because it looks a lot bigger/scarier than it actually is), Voodoo a couple of times (ehh just not feeling that one much lately, plus I’m a baby about that wood feature), and the big gap jump at the end of HLC (sooo much fun, good improvement and just felt good).

Plus, the weather was absolutely amazing!  I wore a tank top!  So, hanging out on bikes, playing in the woods, peaceful day…ah, just really great.

Now I’m waiting for my next 2 weeks of workouts, but I am already expecting them to be…a lot.  Shawn has already mentioned adding hill repeats to my bike….