Just breathe

Okay, so I made it to the pool at 5:15 again and this time all 3 lanes were full so I had to share a lane which wasn't so bad. There were some serious swimmers doing big time workouts. It was amazing and how smooth they were.

I proceeded to get moving with my freshly purchased goggles. I was off to start my drowning session. I immediately could tell I was faster but man it was hard to get enough air. I still sort of ended up popping my head straight up first then turning trying to get as much air as possible. Of course blowing my bubbles under the surface quickly so I can surface to get more air.

My head down stroke was fast and my head up stroke was slow. I'm sure I looked pathetic. Every once in awhile I'd focus on some stroke technique that I've read and I could really tell that it was more efficient than what I was doing. I just couldn't stay focused as I was basically trying not to drown.

I had to rest during this workout as I really was trying to catch my breath. I ended up only doing 12:30 minutes but that's okay as I think I covered 400 yards even with breaks. I did my last 100 in 2:20 which is 40 seconds faster than yesterday. Small little steps. If I do 4 swim workouts at least every week, I have 112 more workouts to get it all put together for that 4000m swim during the Ironman.

With the thought that my swim stinks, I'm hammered my tempo run today at lunch. I need to run a low 3 hour marathon as part of the Ironman to have a chance at my goal time of close to 10 hours. I busted out a nice 4.5 mile tempo run at about 6:30 pace. It was hard but not super tough. If I can get my running towards what I was doing in preparation for my 2nd marathon, I'll be able to run 7 something miles in my sleep.

I'm planning on trying a full brick soon just to see how it goes with swimming tacked on the front instead of the typical dualthon where it's run-bike-run.

Tomorrow, I get to sleep in and will only be doing a single bike workout because I have my daughter. It's my sleep in day. Woohoo...