Today was another swimming/biking day and it was my long day. It took a lot of time to get things done but I think that was in part because I talk to too many people when I am done with my workout and the fact that I lost my car keys after my bike ride. It was an...interesting day.
I started off swimming today. Last week I went with the bike ride first but I wanted to switch it up this week since in the race I will be going from swimming to biking. On Wednesday I got in 800 yards in the pool so today I wanted to get in 900 yards. I am still a ways away from the race so I didn't think I needed to get in 1,000 yet and even thought was my "long" day I think going up 100 yards over the last time was a pretty good advance.
I went with more of a training approach today. Typically I have been just getting in a pool and doing a bunch of 50's and then mixing in some pulls and kicks but today I went with more of a program approach. I started off with a 100 yard warmup and then did three reps of 50's for four different sets. So on the first turn I did 50 freestyles and I sprinted the first two of them and then did an easy swim for the third rep. For the next set I did that with the kicks (so two sprints and an easy) followed by the same with pulls, and finished up with another 50 freestyle reps.
Those were pretty difficult. The swimming freestyle weren't very tough and since I have a pretty strong upper body the pulls weren't bad but the kicks were really tough. My legs still aren't overly strong and when I am doing the leg kicks it feels like I am going an inch every 30 seconds. Finally finishing the kicks was a great feeling.
After I did that I went ahead and did one more 50 of each kicks and pulls and then finished with a pair of 50 freestyle at a somewhat easy pace.
It is really tough for me to know what a sprint and what an easy is. I feel like I am pretty much going the same speed each time. I am sure this will be easier once I get more comfortable in the water but especially on the kicks and pulls it was difficult to differentiate.
Breathing was much easier today. I still had a little trouble staying on my stroke pace where I breathe every three strokes but it was much better than I was on Wednesday in terms of remembering to breathe out when my head is under water. I do need to get better and not swallowing a gallon of pull water through my swims but I think that will come.
Next was my bike ride. I was tasked with going 1:20 and ended up finishing in 1:21:43 and finishing 19.5 miles. I once again did the trail and it went pretty well. I went a lot slower in the beginning but that was because the trail takes a gradual uphill climb when you go towards Butler from Freeport. I finished the first 40 minutes in 8.50 miles but in the last 40 minutes when it was a little further downhill I got it done 11 miles. So I went an extra 2.5 miles on the way back so I had to do a little turning around at the end to make sure I got my time in. This is a little learning experience for my next time out.
The bad part about the bike ride was that I lost my keys. When I go out for a ride I always lock my car and put my keys in a pouch on the bike. I always zip it up because there are a few bridges that I go over and then have some drop offs. Well I thought I had zipped it up and I didn't. Not only did my phone die as soon as I finished my bike ride but I found that my keys had fallen out.
Luckily enough about five minutes later a couple of really nice guys rode by and said they found keys by the one bridge and they put them there in case the person looking for them went back through the course. They were able to tell me the bridge so when my dad come and picked me up he drove me closer to the bridge and I picked up my keys so I didn't have to bike another 10 miles round trip to get them. Small miracles, I guess.
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