Ouch! Overdid it a bit

You know it's going to be bad when you're already sore before the next day! (Yeah, but I do love it.)

So...yesterday, first day back after a week of little formal exercise, felt good at the time. But today, I'm pretty sore. If I laugh, my obliques and other abdominal muscles hurt. And my triceps - those tricep pushups in hot yoga! - hurt, too.

How do I celebrate my soreness? With 30 minutes of strength training (all muscle groups, plus as much abs as I could stomach, pun definitely intended), an hour and 10 minutes of running the trails with the girls, 45 minutes of hill repeats up the steep hill I wrote about a few weeks ago, and top it off with a bike commute home.

The cool thing about the bike commute, though, was that I averaged 16 mph (which, when you factor in all the streetlights, turns, etc, is pretty darned good) and I passed dozens of cars stuck in traffic. Yay wide shoulders! But boo Bellevue - it sucks. There's no reasonable way to get from my office to the roads with good bike lanes except for using the sidewalk, which I'm fairly opposed to.

The hill repeats were super-fun, too, because it was sunny and warm and my heart rate never exceeded 176 - and even that was only at the very end. I did four repeats, then back up the other way towards my office. So in all I climbed five significant hills.

We'll see how I feel tomorrow. Maybe a solid night's sleep will fix me and I'll be ready to go again. I think I'm going to repeat the Monday workout, though, of swimming at 5, yoga at 6:30. It makes sense given how I feel right now.