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November 20, 2006
Holiday Week
Ah...the Big Turkey Day is almost upon us! I'm getting very excited to chow down on some turkey and stuffing and potatoes and pie and corn and whatever-else-my-sister-makes-for-us-to-eat. Yep, that's right - the family is converging on my sister and brother-in-law's house in North Carolina for Thanksgiving this year. And although they've threatened to make things like sushi for dinner instead of turkey, I have faith they will produce a (at least somewhat) normal Thanksgiving meal. Can. Not. Wait.
Anyway, back to today, I hit the pool in the morning and the trainer in the evening. It snowed here today. North Carolina cannot come any faster!
AM swim workout:
3600 meters total @Pitt masters swim (900 meter warmup, 300 meter cooldown)
8x300 meters as:
2x300 on 6
2x300 on 5:50
2x300 on 5:40
2x300 on 5:30
For the odd # repeats the first 150 was moderate and the 2nd 150 was to be negative splited. For the even repeats we were just supposed to go hard. I was an orphan again this morning - not really haven't a great lane with which to swim in. Coach choose to keep me in the slower lane though as she thought the next lane up was swimming too tight an interval for me. This means I had more rest and so she told me to really focus on negative splitting the odd 300s and then holding that same pace for the hard 300s. I thought I would like to swim the hard 300s in 4:30 so I made that my goal. I swam 4:35, 4:32, 4:33 and then finally 4:30. I swam my odd repeats in 4:40-4:42. I'm not going to lie - it was a hard workout. My arms were killing me when I was done. Good deal! :)
After work I went to the shop and rode "my" bike on the trainer while watching tv. I had just a short 45 minute ride, but with more isolated leg training (ILT) where (after warmup) I alternated legs, each for 1 minute on, until each leg had 10 minutes total. That stuff kills my hip flexors or the top part of my quads - whatever you want to call it. I was feeling the burn, that's for sure!
This appears to be a big run week for me. I added up what I thought the mileage would be if I did all the runs as planned and I came up with 38-40 miles depending on how fast I run them. I remember a long time ago talking with my coach (when I first started into the sport) and him telling me how he was trying to get up to 40 MPW in his own training. And I remember thinking - that's just crazy! How can you run 40 MPW and still do all that other stuff and still be okay? I guess I'm in the process of learning. What (kind of) scares me is that I don't think 40 miles is the ceiling here. I'm not sure what his plans are (and if you ask you don't always get the straightest of answers) but whatever he calls for me to do I will do it. I work best that way. Listen to someone else and trust in what they tell me. And the only thing I have to worry about is gettin' 'er done.
Good night!
Posted by beth at November 20, 2006 8:41 PM
Comments
at the risk of sounding redundant, reacting as though i had written your post and I was trying to reply to myself. This is what I would say to me:
as you venture into unchartered territory, keep your wits. He may be doing the calls; but you are doing the trusting.
Wonderful thing is that it is evidently working great. And that's some mighty sound evidence. Yeah coach. So...
Go Do Your Thing.
((NOTE: after a recent post of yours inspired by some ad if i remember correctly, the traditional "Go , GO!" evolved into "Go Do Your Thing" ... GDYT if you will...) :)
But... heck, I can't resist.... Go Beth, GO!!!
It's like, putting the name makes it unique... I guess it could be "Go Do Your Thing, Beth" ... but it sounds childish with the name, no? And then the exclamation mark feels akward...
Ah, The Lemma Dilemma...
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at November 21, 2006 5:00 AM