Lots of swimming

Finally got around to making Erik fish and chips. He helped cook and said "if Elliot is as good of a coach as I think he is, then you are going to get in trouble for not cooking all of it alone." In the end he approved. The texture of the breading could have been better though.
My four swims this week have equaled more than I have done in a long time. 3x at Masters ( I guess one day was last Monday) plus a couple on my own. My arms are worked. Feel like my swimming is coming along. Last winter a 3500 would have really worked me.


Wednesday-
Ride with Lisa and Dave. Left from home and rode to Leverich. Made it 1/2 to 3/4 of the way up and decided to turn around. It was getting dark. Rode home in the dark. It was Halloween and traffic was crazy for us to be on bikes. Almost ran into some kids dressed all in black on the bike path. Went for traditional Wed. night nachos after ride. Back and shoulders tired the next day. Not used to lots of riding. Went for at least a couple of hours. I didn't check the time.

Thursday
Kind of a big day
Ran 30 minutes before gfit. Gfit was good, light on the legs and heavy on the arms which isn't exactly what I want if I am swimming, but those girls are do SPENTS or something like that. Ski training and they don't want it heavy on the legs.
Master's- 3500 total. Can't remember now what we even did.

Friday
Swim- Got in and got er done. Tired this day. Fell asleep on the couch early and slept in on Saturday.

Saturday
Well a 2 hour bike ride just wasn't on the agenda. I think it ended up being five hours and 65 or so miles on rolling dirt terrain. Another Curry adventure. We paralleled the Bridgers going north for probably 25 miles and then went west and south to Benders house. His mom fed us salmon and crackers and wouldn't take the bait for a ride home so we had 20 more miles home. Wow, I felt out of biking shape. Sooo tired. We were all sucking wheel so bad on the way home. It is funny how I don't care on the way out, but you just hunker down and stare at the road and the person's tirefor those last miles home. My legs have never hurt that bad while riding.

Sunday
Thank god for the extra hour. I 'm not sure if I would have made it to Master's without it. Workout was good, had a day where positive thinking was very important for every 100. Felt good, arms a little tired. The other people in my lane are so much faster than me, but I was able to hold the intervals all day. I did cheat and not do fly on the 6x100 IMs . There is no way I would have made the interval. Missed a lot of the warm up so probably swam 2500-3000.

Hiked Drinking Horse and part of the M with Jenny. She just got back from their wedding and trip south so it was fun to chat with her about everything.

Monday
Had one of those days. Was heading over to the pool at 11 when the boss decided we should all go look at our new lab space.(Side note: My lab is moving in the next few months. We will be on campus which I think will make my life easier. I will be a few steps from the pool and the gym rather than a 10 minute bike ride or have to deal with parking) So I missed the plan of swimming at lunch. Headed over to the pool at 3:30 but had to pick up some stuff from people at 5. So, the swim was a little short. Didn't do the 200's at the end of the workout. Was so tired though. Swim speed was only one yesterday. Slow.
Got  my errands run and did the run. Felt good for that and ran for about an hour. In general pretty tired though. Not sure why.