Patience

Friday- I was in the pool and realized I have been swimming a lot this week. 5 days. Those 2000 workouts weren't long but they weren't easy either.  I think my comfort in the water is getting better. A couple of years ago flip turns made me so anxious. Now I kind of like getting them better and better. In the future, whatever that holds, I am excited to always be able to swim!
Anyway, is this a new regular thing, with my proximity to the pool etc?

My mind is changing. This week, instead of agonizing over how many more 200s I have, I have been able to settle in and just go with what I am doing. It doesn't help to count so much, it will all be over with eventually. I guess you could say I am getting more patient with my workouts.

Monday- Swim. That was kind of tough. 12x100. I divided it up (mentally) into 3 groups of 4. I actually did the last group of four, one-two seconds faster than the previous.

Tuesday- Like this bike around thing. Rode to work, rode to get my hair cut, rode home, rode to swimming, rode to the grocery store, rode home. Cumulative of at least an hour.

Masters- Lots of yardage. I think I got in 3600. Got lapped a few times. My lane is a bunch of slackers. We had 200 IMs and they totally pull on the lane line on backstroke. I sometimes can't resist for one or two times, especially when I get really far behind. But them, every time. Then they pull with big paddles on the swim. No wonder I keep getting lapped. The workout was lots of 200s though. So regardless of them, I think it was a good workout for me. Side note: I find it funny, people who obviously were competitive swimmers. They bring their bag of toys to the pool. The other day there was a girl who I do not think did one single lap without a toy. Lap after lap of kicking with big huge fins.

Wednesday- National Running Day- I think I mapped out 14 miles. The map program doesn't always recognize the trails so it gets a bit off, but that run took 2 hours and 20 minutes. WTF. I wasn't running slow, or maybe I was. I did get stopped by a train, going both directions. Anyway, regardless, I was tired. Tried to read right before bed and couldn't even get in one line.

Thursday- The swim was hard. Only 2000, but continuous? What were you trying to do to me? The 50 easy between the 100s at 1k pace got very slow... I was proud of myself for sticking to the continuous part. Took some math beforehand to not forget which lap I was on. Rode around after work. I love spring because of all the baby animals. There are 7 baby foxes up by my parents house. Went on a mission to see them. I think it was a little early. None of them were out. Went to running night and introduced myself to Mike Foote. Cool guy. Like his philosophy. Learned a little bit. I think that I need to be better about eating post workouts to recover better. Went and bought some dried milk and chocolate. Mixed together and now I have portable chocolate milk. Perfect. Way cheaper than Recoverite.

Friday- swim already touched on that.
TT- fun huh? I kept thinking, how am I supposed to make this fun? My time 38.00. On the same course in the triathlon a couple of years ago I rode 37.30. Think I'm on track. Think I found the place where I go too hard. My threshold, I guess. So the course is rolling. If I go over my threshold where it is uphill or flat, I have to slow to recover. What about going just over on the little rollers, will the down be enough to give my legs a chance to recover?  I would like to go and do that at least 1 more time. Get a good sense of the course.

Saturday- fun ride, but also worked really hard. Group ride. 6 people. To Livingston and back via Kelly Canyon and Jackson Creek, both ways.  Rode with Anna, riding buddy from the race last week. She pushed it hard up some of those last climbs. Was determined to not let her go.  70 miles and about 4 hours of riding. We stopped and played on the playground at Jackson creek and got cokes and French fries in Livingston. Great group, everybody was psyched to be on their bikes all day.
Run- Good. Fine. Legs didn't feel great, felt like they just got off a hilly hard ride.

Sunday- woohoo. I am tired. My wings are sore. Hopefully not from the playground. Swimming was hard to go fast. Felt good to stretch out and go slow. Not a ton of yardage. Probably only about 2500?, if that. Workout didn't have a ton of yardage and slow intervals so I wasn't actually slacking, that much.

Run- Legs super tired. I kept sort of laughing thinking about how many people have easy, 2000ft elevation, and 2.5 hours in the same sentence. It took me until about 3/4 of the way to the top to actually start feeling okay. I did have to walk some of the way. Maybe I rode a little too hard on Saturday.

Super happy to lay on the couch tonight and get to bed early.  Way more tired than last weekend after racing. 

This is what Anna and I saw at Cow Country. 90% sure.