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August 22, 2006
Covering My Bases
Today I swam, biked and ran. That about sums it up! Nevertheless, I'm not one to be brief, so here goes the detailed story...
AM swim: off stroke day - you know how I love it! (note sarcasm)
I wasn't feeling it in the pool this morning but once we got started I was fine. 3550 yds total, 900 yds warmup, 400 yds cooldown.
3 sets of 10x75 yds on 1:30 as:
4x75 yds IM (free, back, breast)
3x75 yds back (descending)
2x75 yds free (thank goodness)
1x75 yds back (hard)
If I haven't mentioned it before, those other strokes...yeah...they're hard.
PM crit:
Try as I might I couldn't break away tonight. Trust me, it wasn't for a lack of effort on my part. I kept attacking but I didn't get any help tonight. Definitely not strong enough to lap the field by myself. So it was lots of hard riding and then a sprint at the end that resulted in a 4th place finish. I'll take it. Some of those girls can sprint like you would not believe. I just wish they would work harder during the race to pull some!
PM run:
As much as I was hurting during the ride I started running right after and felt fine. That, I think, is what we're aiming for here. Now granted I was running easy. I did 31:15 and then called it a day. I actually didn't even realize I was supposed to run also today until about 4:38 am this morning when I checked my workouts for the day one last time before leaving for swimming. Good thing - it would have been hard to run in my cycling shoes.
Now, I am very tired. Just a run tomorrow. Thank goodness. Good night!
Posted by beth at August 22, 2006 11:33 PM
Comments
How do we know Fall is approaching in the South? The answer: squirrel activity! No kidding! This is when they sit high in trees and eat pine cones like corn on the cob. They toss the leftovers onto our cars and us. Gray squirrels eat pine seeds. Longleaf , loblolly, shortleaf and slash pines produce large prickly cones on their lower branches in August/September. A squirrel's favorite habit is to pearch on some lofty limb and gnaw apart the redish cone to extract the oily seeds (there are about 50 seeds in one cone). Now isn't this bit of trivia enlightening. So we do have seasons!
Posted by: Nadine at August 23, 2006 9:36 AM
Seasons, smeasons! You do not have seasons in the south - that's the only good thing weather wise us northerners have over you southerners so don't go making up stories about how your unruly squirrels mean fall is coming!!! :) Ha!
Posted by: Beth at August 23, 2006 10:18 AM