Hangin' Loose

AM- 35 min morning swim.  Felt pretty good this morning.  Rested up alot over the weekend.  Did 250 yds of drills with fins then swam.  Worked on a few different things on the swim.  Started with trying to stay relaxed.  Moved on to trying to speed up.  And kept noticing my legs weren't staying as balanced and so then worked on keeping my chest and head down.  Which was great for my legs but made it harder to get air a few times.  Finding my balance while swimming.:)  Feeling really good about my progress.  75 min run tonight.  Next race on the schedule is Ogden Marathon.  Which is going to be a long run. 

PM- Ran right after work.  Decided to try and run it 8:00-30.  Hit it pretty good.  Some a bit slower and a couple faster.  Legs felt a bit tired still from the race.

TT 1:14:41 AP 8:12

Had to take the ride indoors due to the wind.  It was really bad like 35-50 mph winds.  So we wanted 3 episodes of friends in the gym as we cycled.  Wasn't too bad.  Made it mostly a cadence ride.  Its nothing like doing a ride outside.  Can't wait till the weather is constently good. So 80 mins for about 20 miles or so.

AM-  So 45 min swim this morning.  Went with drilling a bit longer.  Worked on my bilateral breathing with fins.  To get the rythem down.  Did that for about 20-5 mins of it.  And then worked on it w/o.  It went pretty good.  Was still taking in alot of water.  But was making some good improvements on balancing in the water.  Still very windy out there today.  Will have to see how it is later when I need to go for my 45 min run.

PM- Went for a run at the gym for 45 mins.  Ran a tempo run for say.  2 miles warm-up 9:00 then 8:30.  Then 2 miles at 6:58.  Then dropped it back to 8 for other mile and then cool down.  Felt pretty good.  Kristi wasnt felling very well so was doing it solo.

TT 45:00

Swim this morning.  45 mins in the pool.  Did more drills and tried some paddles also.  Kind of different but I am not ready for those yet.  Feeling better and better about breathing on the left side.  Sure its not even close to perfect but its improving each time.  What was helping was rotating more.  So now working on looking straight down and rotating more.  Seems to work pretty good for getting more air.  Tried to change up my stroke some.  That only left me with too many things to work on.  So went back to the breathing and rotating.

Opted to doing Sat workout over todays ride.  So I did 70 mins on the bike in the gym then jumped onto the TM to do 45 run.  Did the xcountry course on the bike twice.  And then TM just average pace of 8:30.  Legs were a bit like jello after the ride.  But cleared up after a bit running.  Took a gu around the hr mark.  Going to be heading down to SG for the IM.  It should be alot of fun volunteering and cheering this weekend.