OW. My legs hurt.

Let's see when last we met, I was mulling over having cleaned my bikes. Yay! What's the rest of the week been like? Well, work has been so annoying. I feel like I work in a prison this week. We've got every cabinet, door etc locked. It's been worse than anything I've ever seen. State and Federal inspections are so much fun. Drives me up the wall. I've been calling myself Prisoner#97321973 all week. I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday, I don't think I could take another frickin day of it.

So you see, it's been a weird week. Tuesday, I did a patrol ride on Mill Mountain right after work. It was fun enough, but I would like to have ridden longer and with other people. My legs were still tired from PoMo. I could feel it when I was climbing. There is a new trail being built on MM, it's going to be a nice addition to the system. It's called Virginia Pine. I helped with it a few weeks ago (the day the world was introduced to Sarah Palin, yikes!). Anyway the trail now has this neat section of turns that I look forward to riding. I just felt tired and lacked the oomph factor. Regardless, I still rode 8 miles or so.

Wednesday was back to the gym. We've got several goals now. 1. Increase Cardio, 2. Do a perfect squat (I have issues w/ form - I can lift a bunch of weight, but my knees buckle, 3. Continue strengthening the core and upper body. My torture Wednesday was legs. Let's see I did squats on this one machine - 100lbs. Supersetted those with walking lunges and jumping jacks. Then we moved on to some other stuff that kicked up the cardio a notch. We did some leg flexion stuff with weight (70lbs) supersetting with another variation on squats. The we did some UFC Squats which were dreadfully hurtful. Of course there were some other exercises tossed in among all of that. The result today is two very, very sore and stiff legs...what to do????

Of course, I'm on call tonight so leaving to ride a bike isn't a good idea. Instead, I went straight to the gym after work and used one of the cycling class bikes to do a 45 minute workout. I wasn't as disciplined as the last time, so I didn't really have a routine to share. I was sweating like a pig, so if that's any indication of progress, I did really good. It was very hard to ride today - soreness eased up some, but man did it hurt to do the harder settings. OUCH!

Tomorrow, my dad is taking my car for some work. He's dropping me and my road bike off at work so I can ride home. I'd ride it to work except I'd have to leave home at 6:15 or so and it's too dark for my liking at that hour. Riding home should be fun!!! Of course, I have the gym at 7pm. HA HA HA. My legs are going to die! Will be walking quite a bit on Saturday and hopefully will find time to ride Sunday morning.

All of this and I still need to plan for my trip out of town. YIKES! Gotta go, laundry needs shifting. =)