Day 39: swimming & running Today started out with a swim. 1200 yards with 3×200 intervals with rest periods of 20 seconds between each intervals. I got a late start to the morning so I changed things up a bit and scrapped the intervals and just swam 1225 yards straight. …
Day 37: Nothing to see here Nothing interesting on day 37. More swimming and running. My pace felt good, especially in the pool. I was discouraged because I didn’t get a good night’s sleep so I try bought my swim times would suffer. Amazingly they didn’t. I swam a 2:18/100 …
Day 35: Long Day Another Sunday in the books. Today’s plan was 1600 yards in the pool and a 10 mile run. Sunday’s are my swim coaching, but I decided to get to the pool early to knock out some of my training sets. The main emphasis was a 1000 …
Day 33: A Missed Double Friday’s program called for a 1100 yard swim that included 3-200 yard intervals swam at “race pace” with 20 second rest periods between each interval. It also called for a 4.5 mile run including hill sprints. Friday was also Holden’s class field trip to Ano Nuevo …
Day 31: Doubles Today was a good day. On the schedule was an 1100 yard swim, including 8-50 yard intervals, and a 4.5 mile run with hill sprints. When I woke up I wasn’t thrilled about the idea of jumping in the pool. Even though I had slept well and …
Day 29: A Long Day of Suffering As I’ve written about before Sunday’s are hard days because it requires a lot of effort and a lot of time. This Sunday was no different. The schedule was tight to begin with: Swim lessons at 8am, Holden’s baseball practice at 2pm, and …
Day 27: Double sessions on vacation Today is Friday and day 27 on The Plan. That means it’s a swim + run day. We also happen to be on a mini-vacation in Healdsburg, CA (about 2 hrs north of us). This was the first time I’ve had to manage around …
Day 25: The pool felt good this morning. Slowly I’m starting to enjoy swimming. I was explaining to someone earlier that both in running and cycling I know how I’m doing just by feel; I know my spinning cadence, or running heart, or pace. Without looking at my watch or …
Day 21: Swim/Bike Brick Workout Today is day 21 on my 16-week training program. I’ve officially hit 3 weeks of training. I don’t count rest days so this is 3 actually weeks worth of days in which I’ve trained. There’s no doubt I feel the effect of my training. While …
Day 20: Swimming & Biking This week has been out of sorts. My schedule got thrown off by the warriors game and I’m just now getting things straight. I had rearranged the plan to put a makeup swim session in today. That meant I had both a swim and a …
