Week two was great! Another missed workout. Darn it. I had my alarm set, or maybe I didn't, but when 5:00am rolled around I was awake, but fell asleep before I got up, and so the opportunity to get the pool did not present itself again. The pool hours are fine, but later in the night would be helpful, or even just a hair earlier in the mornings so I could be back well before work hours.
I did have my best swim yet though. 850m. I felt very calm and relaxed the entire time, and finished in 19:49. I don't have any concept of how fast this is comparatively, but it is my best time. I also did my longest swim ever this week: 1000m. I also felt pretty good on this swim. I was tired at the end. And I lost my goggles. This is one of my fears on race day...leaking goggles. Mine tend to start leaking about 2/3 through. At some point I'm going to buy a different pair and see if that doesn't help. In the pool it's not a big deal, because I can stop and push them back on. Obviously this will be harder in the middle of a lake.
It was finally a normal wind speed this week on one of my bike rides, and I got some serious practice riding a few miles at a time in aero. It's so fun! The thing I need to work on while on my bike is relaxing. Actually, this is probably an area that I need to work on in general, in all aspects of my life, but that's another day's topic. I can feel my shoulders up and tense often. And relaxing into my elbows in aero is something I had to tell myself many times (versus trying to keep weight on my hands/wrists). The aero bars give me a third position on my bike, which is great because this week I rode almost 2 hours, and by the end I was glad to have a variety of positions to be in to stretch out my back some.
Here are my workouts from this week:
Monday: rest!
Tuesday; bike 40 min (I rode 48) with 6 30-second sprints
Wednesday: miss (scheduled 850m in the pool, 4 mi run)
Thursday: 850m in the pool (19:49) , 5 mi run (40:44)
Friday: 30 min in bike trainer (scheduled was 40 min outside)...finally made it to my bike at 10:00 at night)
Saturday: 1000m swim (24:13), 7 mile run (57:59)
Sunday: scheduled was 25 bike miles but I've been having trouble calibrating my bike computer, so it was already way off at 3 miles, which I knew because it followed the start of my running route, so I just rode for 1:38 and have no idea how far I rode.
I am so happy with my run times following a swim. Two weeks start BRICK workouts, so that will be really telling about how my run will go. And starting longer runs post swim, I need to start practicing with food/drink on the go.
This is another building week, before next week is an "easy" week. This week: 1200m swim!
I also registered this past week to volunteer at Ironman Wisconsin in September. I did this for two reasons: 1: those athletes are bad ass and I want to be there to take it in, and 2: because volunteers having priority for registering for the next year's race. In case I get a wild hair, I want to be in a good position to register for 2015.
My goal this week is to finally register for my fall marathon, too.
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