Day 98, Week 14, Diamond in the Rough Olympic Triathlon

It's kinda like being angry. It's better to wait until you've recovered to make any judgements. Even though I didn't do as well as I'd hope looking forward to the Half-Ironman in September I'm training for, I finished the race which is a victory, and I finished all three legs without having to take any breaks or walk. I swam well, however, I royally screwed it up because I sighted on the wrong buoy for the first 1/4 mile of the .94 mile swim. A, c'est la vie. I wished I'd done much better in the bike. I was hoping for 15-17 mph avg, but only managed 14. The climb rate was about 50 ft/mi. However, will be only 4 for the September race, so hopefully I'll be okay there. The run went really well. If I managed an 11:00 pace I'd be happy, and I came out with 9:59! Over course, different races will have very different terrain, my first Olympic in Claremore last year, my time was 4:04:19 and yesterday, by second one, was 3:48:37. I did perform much better yesterday. I'm still way down close to the bottom in the standings, but that's not why I do it. In the end I do know that it's something that not many people can do and I did it.

I'm going to change my training plan to do long courses for all three and no short:

• Sunday: Brick
• Monday: Short Core
• Tuesday: Run
• Wednesday: Short Core
• Thursday: Long Core
• Friday: Swim
• Saturday: Short Core

Day 97, Week 14, Short Core [7min]

Got in 4 sets to make up for all the missed sets the past week.  Yeah!  I'm feeling pretty good, ready for tomorrows Diamond in the Rough Olympic.

Day 96, Week 14, Swim Drills [1650y]

Got swim drills in, but not core workout.  I finished the 1650y set in record time.  Yeah!

Day 95, Week 14, Short Brick [45min/1.75M]

Did good.  Didn't have to walk for the run.  Good weekday traffic on July 4th.

Day 94, Week 14, Medium Run [7M]

Didn't make it. Walked at 5.9 for .5 cause heart rate was way high. I'm going to stop the speed work to see if maybe I'm pushing to hard for my planned schedule.

Day 93, Week 14, Short Brick [45min/1.75M]

Did 45 seconds on one leg drills.  Yeah! Heart spiked up a couple of times into 160s mid-way, then way up 170s-190s for last fifth or so.  It bled over into running and I wasn't able to run all the way.  Had to walk some in a couple of intervals. And, well, the second running interval I did in 2nd gear, so no surprise I had to finish walking.  Maybe I shouldn't do any more 2nd gear running.

I did get in two sets of core workout.  Making up for 1 of the 4 I was supposed to do on Sunday and the 1 I was supposed to do today.  Yeah!

Day 92, Week 13, Long Core [34min]

Too dejected from Saturday's failure.  Maybe I can make up the sets.