Good week!

Question: When doing backstroke there is a drill where you put your arm up, put it back down, and then go through the stroke. In freestyle you "zipper" your arm up to a high elbow out of the water , back down, and then do the stroke.  Backstroke is easier,  free takes some coordination. Anyway, what is the point of that drill?

This is eating in our house. A hovering cat and use of two hands. One to move him away and one to shovel food in. He is especially fond of processed salty meat, milk, and avacasdos.

This was a good week. I took extra care to get to bed a little earlier, eat healthier food between workouts etc. 

Swims

Tuesday

warm up

Lots of 50

10x 50 with paddles and buoy

8x50 with paddles only

6x50 with paddles and fins

4x50 no toys Fast

each set of 50s  got a little faster. We were down to 55 on the last one in the 50m pool.

Total swim 2900

Thursday

500 choice we

8x75 kick (I actually got to the swim on time and did 150 extra waiting for people)

10×150 

1 and 5 intermediate

2 and 6 50 fast 100 intermediate

3 and 7 pull

4 and 8 100 fast 50 intermediate

5 and 9 fast

2X 

200 swim

4X25 fast

200 CD 

my numbers above are off but you get the idea.

around 3500

Felt amazing this evening. Passed Dan and was catching the next girl. 

Saturday ride- Rode with my friend Jo. I like Jo. I like to ride with him. He pushes me. We did two laps up Hyalite. The first took 38 minutes and was hard. I felt like the second wasn't as hard but I pushed it pretty good up the final climb. We didn't time it but I think we rode it faster.   Why is it taking me so long to get the legs to feel good? Also, my left leg and the one with the hamstring problem felt much worse than the right. Why? Ride was more like 4 hours than 3.

Look. We can clean up pretty good!

I like that my friends dance at weddings. 

I got a new helmet. It stayed straight for the whole ride Saturday. No more crooked helmets for me.

(I also got a new tablet which makes picture taking easier)

Sunday-Swim maybe wasn't so successful. Swam maybe 2000 and then we had an Easter egg hunt in the deep end. Run was great. Went up and down some longer more sustained hills than my usual town trail run. A lot like St. George actually. Had a little fiasco when I thought I lost my car key a drill ran up to my parents house to get another. We bought their old car. So run was a little longer than planned. Key was in the car door. 

Was very tired after my run. Also, very tired for the last mile or so. Definitely felt like it was a successful training weekend despite other distractions. 

Monday-Spent the whole week and weekend being organized for the weekend. I forgot about Monday. Not prepared. Very glad I just need to spin tonight. And PT. Definitely PT. Also, feeling very tired. Good place to be today, don't you think?

Oh, and I was Wednesday. So, I am mentally preparing for Wednesday.