Sunday, February 19, 2012

Everything is getting back on track

I got a little cold two weekends ago, most likely cuz I have been getting little sleep. Not because I couldn't I just was staying up and watching TV too late. Since I get up for work at 430am I really need to be in bed by 830 to get enough effective sleep.

I missed a few swims and swam two events in a swim meet while sick but am back on track now.

Swim meet at Brighton High School:
Our club "FAST" hosted a masters' swim meet on Feb 5th, Superbowl Sunday, and I had to be there to help run the timing system. I was already signed up for the meet so since I was there I swam my events as scheduled and just kept the option open to bail out if I felt too bad.

I swam the 1500 and the 400 free and while I didn't expect to do my best I did put down some good times for me at this time of year. The best I have ever swam the 1500 is 23:54, I seeded myself at 23:45 and came in at 23:45.57 so I was happy with that being sick and all.
The 400 went pretty well, I swam 5:58.16 which is about a half second slower than my best from 2008. While I'm not the fastest swimmer I did have a strategy...swim the first 100 strong, keep a good pace for the second 100, try to make the third 100 the fastest I could go and do my best to hold the pace for the last 100. I went according to plan and it appeared to work well for me.

Anywho, back to training stuff:
Swmming: Going OK, nothing new, I've been able to bring my pull sets in at 1:15/100 and leave on 1:30 pretty consistantly but swimming without them has been nearly the same. This week I seemed more tired than usual but probably just as fast as I've ever gone.

Biking is going OK, nothing new either. I've been basing my interval effort on 225 watts but that is probably a little high right now since I've been riding just under 4 hours a week. Last week I was just under 5 hours cuz I was able to ride outside on friday. I got my road bike finished and rode it for the first time on friday but only for about an hour.

Running going well, the last two weeks have been ~36 miles with short intervals on wednesday and longer intervals on sunday's long run.

So all together I'm doing well but I want to get more time on the bike so I may cut my friday swim and start riding on that day. I've got 5 weeks before my Camp with HFP down in Georgia and I don't want to go there unprepared to ride the distances on the schedule. Ideally I would like to be near 7 hours for 3 week before the camp.