Monday run

5 miles easy - the Disneyan interlude was lovely, but I am delighted to be back on a regular exercise schedule!

In fact there is nothing like Disney for prompting a true embrace, subsequently, of healthy eating (in a slightly over-the-top development spearheaded by Antarctic instigator J., we had Friday dinner at the restaurant at the Morocco pavilion at Epcot [I had beef shish kebab, with surplus baklava skimmed off the other diners' prix fixe menu], Saturday lunch at the Hollywood Brown Derby [mussels, seared tuna with greens, grapefruit cake with cream cheese frosting] and Saturday dinner at Jiko [cheese and dips for the table, plus some very delicious South African wines, then seared scallops and for dessert lemon curd with blueberry compote and sour cream ice-cream])...

The Columbia gym opens up again tomorrow, though the morning lane swim class doesn't start until next Monday. I'm here in NY through the first half of the June, with a 2-mile open-water swim on June 14, then off later that week (oh, dear, I have to laugh, my life sounds more glamorous than it possibly actually is!) to Cayman and London for a few weeks, then back here at the end of the first week of July with three weeks more to train for the NYC Triathlon on July 26 (there's a nice little tune-up race the week before, a 1.5K swim and 5K run - I did both these races last year also).

So I need to bike a lot between now and June 18 or so, since there will be two and a half weeks of no bike access in the middle of that training stint - I will probably try and go to the gym spinning classes in Cayman (they don't have a schedule of classes up on the website, but I believe they are offered fairly frequently).

Goal for the week: just get back on a steady run and swim schedule, pick up my bike tomorrow afternoon and get out a few times later this week, and also try out the boot camp class at Bodystrength to see if I like it or not. If I do, I think I'll go to that on Tuesday and Thursday mornings before swimming, just for the next couple weeks. I had my eye on Crossfit, but it is expensive and logistically more complicated, so that I think I will leave it to try at some later date when I am more leisurely and richer...