Day 17: running & biking Sunday’s are the hardest days. Sunday’s training program call for both a long run and a long swim, both to be performed at “moderate” efforts. So, that is what I did. The Run Portion: The run ended up being 8.3 miles instead of 8 because …
Day 15 Swimming My training program was a run-of-the-mill swimming session: 900 yards in total with 3×200 yard intervals. Overall it felt good, but the longer intervals definitely get my heart rate up. By the last interval I’m starting to feel spent, which I guess is the whole point. Looking …
Today was the first day back in the pool after my awesome swim lesson. I was curious how “true” I’d remain given that there wasn’t an instructor watching me. I started out with a 100 yards with the kick board so practice deep kicks, followed by 100 yards with a …
Day 11. 1000 yards of swimming and a 7 mile long run at a moderate pace. I decided to finally to get swimming lessons and my first lesson was this morning. I was anxious about the lesson (even waking up last night thinking about it) because I’m so embarrassed about …
Today was day #9 of the 16 week training program. Today’s goal was swimming 900 yards in total total with 4 intervals of 100 yards each, resting for 15 seconds between each interval. The swim didn’t feel great, but despite feeling “clunky” I posted my best swimming times (2:42/100 yards). …
