Bike
Did the first long ride of the year this weekend on the CompuTrainer. Two and a half hours of riding at about 80%. Felt pretty good throughout the ride, but have to remember to take more salt in during the ride. This year the rides won’t get up to the ridiculously long over four hours, but will probably have a few three hour rides.
The Tuesday and Thursday rides were pretty tough, the short intervals on Tuesday had me seeing stars. Six minutes never seemed so long! Then Thursday was twenty minute intervals, talk about mind games to keep from stopping! Made it through, only going to be harder this week.
Run
I had planned on going for a run after the ride, but the weather has been brutally cold and in the single digits here. Maybe next week if it can get above freezing I will follow the ride with a run. While my running has been ok, I need to run more than once a week. I’ll get out for another run Wednesday morning, but the cold keeps me from pushing as hard as I would like.
Swim
I think my swimming is progressing a little bit. I was able to get in the pool three times last week. On Wednesday I was fortunate that the Prep were not using the pool and I think that is the case again this week. The reason I think my swimming is progressing a little is that we were doing 100s on 1:20 this morning and I managed to keep up for the first set of 4. In the past I would have just had one continuous swim with no rest. Second set wasn’t so pretty and only had rest after first two.
As stated in my goals for the season I was planning on posting my weight each week here. So this morning at the weigh in I was 163.25 lbs. Looks like I’m trending in the right direction so far.