Too Busy

I have been a bad blogger.
This has been my longest training week yet. Plus there is still work and family. Something had to give. I will get catch up my blog then try to catch up reading.

Wednesday morning I got up at 4:20 and went to the rec center. It was 60 degrees and I thought that I would still need long sleeves. I got HOT. I ran the greenway and town 45 minutes with 30 second stride every 4:30. I did ok on my strides and picked up the pace but the 4:30s I ran slowly. I ended up with 4.54 miles and 9:54 pace overall. Then I went inside and did toning class.

Thursday morning I worked until 11:00, came home and ate a PB&J. By the time I got dressed and out the door it was almost noon and HOT. The schedule called for a 90 minute tempo run (15 minute warm up, 2 x 26t,4r and a 15 minute cool down). I ran the warm up nice and slowly knowing that as soon as it was over I had to pick up the pace for 26 minutes. So the warm up was 1.52 miles, 9:53 pace. As I started the first tempo effort, I passed the school and my daughter came running and yelling to me with her friends. It was great to have them cheering. I passed the school again on my way home and they yelled again. I finished strong. I ran 2.89 miles for a 9:00 pace. I jogged/walked home to my mailbox where I had put a bottle of ice water. I drank almost the whole thing and dumped the rest over my head. The second 26 minutes was a LOT harder. I was HOT and tired. I was thinking how I need a confidence builder not another mental toughness day. But confidence building was not in the cards so I just trotted along and finished my tempo effort with 2.71 miles, 9:36 pace. I got a bottle of Gatorade from my garage and chugged it down before the cool down. That 15 minutes I covered 1.36 miles, 11:04 pace. Once home I got another bottle of water and my bike. It felt great to be on my bike. All of a sudden it wasn’t so hot. I rode 7.92 miles in the 30 minutes required on the schedule. I passed the school again on my bike and a different class was outside but those kids all yelled hi to me as I rode by. I think I need to just run/ride back and forth in front of the school from now on. :) I had 40 minutes before school got out and I had promised my son’s teacher that if I had anytime I would come back and glue more stuff to the wall, so back to school I went.

Friday morning the schedule had a “race specific” swim.
Warm up 6 x 75, last 25 in each backstroke
Main 3 x 700 each at harder effort
Cool down 150 easy
They didn’t get the pool open until almost 6. I swam my warm up and then Lana got there. I chatted with her a minute then started on my 700s. After my second one I realized it was 6:40 and I had to get home. So I skipped that last 700 and the cool down. I have lost my watch so I don’t have any times.

Today is a rest day and tomorrow is another hard effort. Then next week will be the longest training week on the entire schedule and the kids are home on spring break. I will have lots of EARLY mornings next week.