So far so good...

This week has been fairly productive in regards to training. I swam Monday morning and rode my bike that evening (Heck yeah daylight savings). I ran/walked Tuesday afternoon but didn’t fit in my strength training. The only bad move was not getting up in time for swimming this morning.

The training plan that I’m following right now focuses on time rather than distances. This being my first year, the main thing I need to do is build a solid base. As the season progresses, I’ll focus more on intensities. During my runs, I’m using a heart rate monitor to help me with my “pace.” The goal is to keep your heart rate in a certain zone, Zone 2, while you are running. It gets to be difficult keeping my HR in Zone 2 when I run outside. I took Tucker with me yesterday, and if you have ever met my dog, you can understand how that probably added to an increased HR.

Here is how the week has played out…

Monday AM Swimming
WU- 300m
Drills- 8x25 (2 ea. fingertip, catch up, fist, over-rotate)
Pulls- 4x200 (build by 50)
Kicks- 6x75 (fly down/free back)
Main Set- 2x300 (on 7:20 & 7:15)
CD- 100m

Total: 2350m

Monday PM Biking (48 mins)
Rode loops around the Hoover Freshman Center. Over the 48 mins I covered 10.7 miles which gave me an average speed of 13.38mph. It was a pretty good “easy ride.” I’m still trying to get comfortable on the bike. I focused a lot on cornering and turning. I have the clipless pedals that your shoes attach to. It gives you a lot more power, especially climbing hills. These bad boys have taken a lot of getting used to. On one of my first rides, I fell over b/c I couldn’t get the other foot clipped into the pedal when I pushed off to start riding. The other night when my 48 minutes was up, I started coasting back to my car. I was a little psyched about having a good ride. I unclipped my left foot and started to slow down. As I was almost to a complete stop, I thought to myself, “Wow, I didn’t even fall over today..” then gravity started to take its all too familiar effect. I started teetering to the right…the side that still had my foot clipped in…I struggled to free myself, but the effort was futile. There I lay halfway on my side and my left leg wrapped under my bike. I got up and just kinda give a wave to anyone that happened to be watching. Now all I need to do is lay the bike down in the middle of a ride to accomplish the “bust-trifecta.”

Tuesday PM Run (24 mins)
OK, So it was really more of a walk. I took Tucker around the neighborhood. This will probably be the only time that he tags along with me.

Wednesday AM Swimming

DNF

Wednesday PM Biking (64 mins)

Hopefully the rain will hold off so I can go back to the Freshman Center and ride tonight.

Eric’s quote of the day…“Do you know what’s so bad about real life? There’s no danger music.”