Wednesday and Thursday

Sorry about missing last night. I was just exhausted and had to get to bed early. I have had a couple of good days training.

Wednesday I spent about 1 hour in the pool doing lap after lap. OK there was more to it than that and here it is. Warm up - 300m, 200m Kick, 12x25m then 4x(200m, rest 20s, 75m, rest 15s, 75m rest 30s), 200m fast, 100m fast, 400m kick, 100 cooldown. That was my swim workout and I felt great for the entire swim. I really feel like my swimming is getting better.

I then went to work and when I had some time for a bike ride I once again set up my trainer. I really hate that trainer, but at work we have a machine call a Hypoxia trainer. You basically strap a mask onto your head, turn on the machine, set the altitude you want and start running or biking. I set the altitude at 5000 feet and then rode for an hour. I was 30 minutes into the ride before I realized that I had the hose connected wrong and was just breathing normal air and wearing a silly mask. Once I fixed that problem I could really tell a difference in my breathing and in my capacity to do work. I'm going to try and incorporate one run and one bike per week (when I'm home) to using this machine.

Thursday - I had great plans for today but my real job got in the way again. I did manage to get in a one hour run this morning. I left my house and my legs felt like bricks. I never really shook that feeling and had a pretty slow run at 8:07 per mile. Overall it was a very nice and relaxing run, just not very fast. I was only able to cover 7.45 miles in one hour. I had also planned to do a long swim (2 miles) today but like I said my real job got in the way of my dream job. Anyway, I'm pushing the swim to tomorrow afternoon.

I'll report on that little event tomorrow.

Have a great day!