This week

Boston- Looks like I will only really have time after 6:30pm to get much stuff in. Busy week and I am expected to attend all of the conference. I found a bike shop 2 blocks from the hotel and am trying to find some good routes. I think I will rent a bike. One route went to Walden Pond. That would be cool. Also, need some time away from my co-workers. This whole thing is going to take some planning though. Am going to bring a bunch of snacks and try and figure out if I can eat  later in the evening. Food is always kind of annoying to me on these trips. I always eat more than the people I go with.

Tuesday
Swam at lunch. Did your workout. Not feeling the 1k pace efforts. Just didn't have the heart or the arms to put the effort into them. Swimming not going well. I like your workouts though. They go by quick and are interesting. The b/c 3 is getting much easier and I think my form is better doing those than breathing on one side.
Ride- Rode the fixie around on dirt, trails, and road, That was fun and a pretty hard workout. The legs never get to stop.

Wednesday
Got up in the morning and did the run. Had an experiment at work. Run was pretty hard. Lots of intervals keeping me at a good clip for most of it.

Masters- Uggh. Nobody there. Swimming by myself for half of it. Also, boring workout. WU of 900. 3X300, 4x25 fast, 3x200, 4x25 fast, 3x100, 4x25 fast. I also think that the Swim Center puts agar in the pool. The water feels heavy. Feeling really down about my swimming. Work really hard to not go very fast. Not liking swimming this week.

Thursday
Day was pretty gray and I was worried about waiting until evening in fear that weather would go bad. Megan and I rode at lunch. That ride was a doozy. It was pretty hard and then we had a pretty good headwind for a lot of it. I like intervals in a headwind. Takes my mind off the wind. I was feeling pretty worked for the rest of the day. Stayed at work late and my eyes were pretty heavy.


Friday

  Good Day!! Had a meeting with the City Mangager which was really encouraging. Then met with Lawrence at the pool for some swim technique coaching. He thinks I need to work on my stretch. Get really stretched out and roll. Also, my right arm is going outside really far which is probably why I have a tendency to wiggle. He thinks doing some stroke counting and trying to get a lot of glide will help. He also talked a lot about the recovery which I will ask him more about. Drills for my right arm were just kicking on that side and he also suggested that drill where you run your arm up your body on the recovery to practice proper alignment of the catch and pull. I think I am letting my elbows drop below my wrists and not getting a very good catch. Watching Lawrence under water you could see him catch.  We are going to meet every Friday and do a little coaching session and a swim workout together.

   After the session I only had 35 minutes left before the pool closed. Didn't even count how far I went. Just swam the rest of the time. I was likely short on the 2000. Did a nice 30 minute run in the snow afterwards. Felt  good.

Saturday

Snow, snow and more snow. Did the run up Bozeman Creek. It was a slushy mess at the bottom. Exactly at the 3 mile marker there were no tracks. Ran two miles in snow breaking trail. Starting some new/good memories for the year. That was way more fun than pounding pavement for two hours. It was hard, especially when the snow got knee deep. Good.  Ran back down at a pretty good clip. 10 minutes faster than it took to go up.

Went to work and got a bunch of stuff done. Erik went camping and mt biking. Went home and rode rollers in the evening for an hour.

Sunday
Master's swim. Didn't quite get in 3k. Warm Up. Swam 1000. Except my lane lapped me so I only got in 900. It was supposed to be distance per stroke, so I was really focusing on stroke. I think they just went fast. Did 2X 5x100. The interval was 2:00 and then 1:55 in the meter pool. It was hard. I had to stay on peoples toes and draft just to get though these. Then we did some dolphin kick hypoxic stuff. Fun swim day.

Ride- Met up with Lawrence, Art, and Ryan. Art likes to race and Lawrence and I don't like to give him the satisfaction so we rode hard. Had a headwind for a large part of the day. The last 40 minutes or so we took quite a bit easier. Ride time was 3:30. We were out for more like 4:30. Flat tire fixing and food stops took up some time. Good hard ride. Excited to keep doing these with Lawrence and Art.

Monday
Feel sort of worked from yesterday. Slept good last night.