Getting Runs In & Multisport Training?

I seem to have failed to mention the running in yesterday’s post. So on Wednesday Jason and I went first to Fleet Feet (the new location over on Wells is so swanky!) and picked up our new Brooks Adrenalines as well as some socks for Jason and pants for me since I had misjudged the weather and was wearing shorts.

Then we headed over to the lake front path to do our 7x400m repeats. I had taken the Garmin with me in order to measure out 400m chunks, but when I turned it on I realized the batteries were low since I haven’t used it in forever. So we just jogged over to the lakefront path and then picked what we thought was roughly 1/4 mile and did the 7 repeats. Our method for this is to fun the 400 at 5K pace as the plan says, then walk for 200m, then jog for 200m, then repeat. It was really fun to run on the path and we had a really nice time. Jason had his 6 month review lunch earlier in the day for which he got rave reviews (of course!) and so we talked a lot about that. I’m so happy for him that he’s doing so well at the job.

Yesterday was 3 miles + strength, but I can’t ever seem to get up to do the strength part. The original plan was to run to the gym which is about 1.5 miles away and then workout, then run home, but we opted to just run 3 miles outside since it was so beautiful out.

Last night we went out with a grad school friend who just moved into the neighborhood. We went to The Blind Robin on Western which is about 10 steps from our front door. I think I also made plans to go out with him on St. Patricks day, which is awesome because 2 beers anymore just about lays me out so it should be interesting if that happens.

I am becoming more intrigued with the idea of mulitsport training. After reading this girls post today and this guys comment, I am wonder if we could really enjoy adding in some swimming and biking. I have no doubt that if we got nice bikes and got into biking the way we got into running (just starting out for fun and then slowing adding in more and more technical parts) that we would really enjoy it. As far as swimming, well yeah that would take more pure stubbornness as it would be more difficult as neither of us are good swimmers and I think of all three sports it is by far the most technical.

So we’ll see what happens with our taxes. We usually owe because there is no money taken out of our graduate student pay, BUT Jason took a ton out of his check so that might even out his stuff. If we have some left in our savings we might take a look at some niceish bikes. I don’t want to buy them though if we aren’t going to do it and waste that kind of money. We have big heavy clunky mountain bikes, so we might just try and ride them more and then see if we are interested in moving up in the world.