Dead legs

Originally, this was going to be title “Treadmill – Friend or Foe?”, but that was if I had posted yesterday.

That’s because I took advantage of the warm weather (even though it was gray & humid outside, with a chance of rain) to do my run.  And from the beginning, I could tell I have not been running outside in a while.  I thought I’d try to make it through the winter & run outside – that attempt lasted longer than previous years’ attempts, but, well, still not that long.  I’m a wimp in the cold.  I know it.  So I’ve been on the treadmill for 6-8 weeks.

So yesterday’s run was harder than if I had been inside on the treadmill.  My body just felt it.  That, and I think I dehydrated myself.  And I was probably tired.  And I’m sure the humidity did not help.  But I did the run and my watch didn’t beep too much (at least on the first half of the run) that I was running too slow.

Today – spin class.  I LOVE this spin class, even if it always kicks my tush.  I’m constantly challenged and sweat a ton!  However, today I felt like I was lagging behind.  My legs felt yesterday’s run pretty early on – in fact, it was at the first sign of a climb – maybe 3 songs into class!  I just could not push my legs!  Ugh…

However, that is ok.  I need to get used to the fact that I may not be pushing myself in spin class as hard as I am usually able to.  Because spin will be my “cross-training” workouts.  So they won’t be the focus of my weekly workouts.  But I will still have dead legs for a while.  I have something on the horizon – I haven’t signed up for anything yet.  But I have a plan to follow (needs a little modification).  And I’ve already followed it for a week.  So my commitment is almost there.  Let’s hope the body holds out, too!  More on this later…