Me and Benjamin Netanyahu

No, it’s not a Jewish version of Indian tea… The Maccabiah Chai Games began this week with a spectacular ceremony at the stadium in Ramat Gan.  I wasn’t there as an athlete but rather as a VIP right in front of the bullet proof glass that separated me from the big wigs.

I can only imagine what the Kazakhstan Maccabiah team, which consisted of two lone athletes, thought when they entered an arena packed with Jews.  Without skipping a beat, my brother began with his Borat impression and before long we were all chanting Yichshimash.  They didn’t quite blend in with all of the other nationalities but then again, neither did the Russians with their full on suites… I didn’t understand how they intended on trading their shirts with other athletes…

Now to business… I’m in week 2 of my marathon training and it was time to tackle some hills.  Actually, it was morel like the one hill near the cemetery at the end of my street… over and over and over again. In this diagram , the thick red area is the altitude whereas the thin red line is my heart rate.  You can see the correlation between altitude and heart rate really nicely. I did add a bit to the cooldown so that my workout would add up to one hour.

This is the description of my workout :

Hill workout

Warmup -  5 min walk, 10 min easy run
2 accelerations
main set -
1 min jog on a flat surface
5 x 1 min up the hill, recovery jog down
2 min jog on a flat surface like before
3 min recovery walk
30 sec run on a flat surface
5 x 30 sec up the hill, recovery jog down
30 sec run on a flat serfuce
Cooldown -- 3 min walk, 7 min easy jog and 3 min walk

Next I did one “long” run which was 1:10 of running.  This workout was just steady aerobic

My pulse was a big higher than I wanted because I was running with a friend but it was worth it for the comradery.  It’s fun to run with other people and I probably wouldn’t have woken up otherwise.

I also participated in the Maccabiah open triathlon and took first in my age group, second woman to finish.  It took me 02:51:18.65 which is quite a chunk of time but it was HOT … oh so hot… Now I have one gold medal though

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