Recovery Week

After the half on the Sunday before yesterday, I ended up basically doing a recovery week.  My quads were quite sore from the half which was surprising.  I guess they weren't quite ready for 13 miles of pounding or what felt like an easy pace was faster than they wanted to go, or the 50 mile ride on Saturday just gave them extra reasons for tightening up.  Don't you just love blogs where you can write massive run-on sentences.  No english/grammar teacher to make your blog all red.  Do teachers still use red pens?

Anyway, so I basically took it easy on the old legs for the entire week.  I just did low miles and let the run come to me.  I also went pretty easy on the bike as well.  So why the legs were recovery, the start of the real swim workouts for the season started.

I'm just going to start another paragraph well because it looks cool.  On Wednesday, I did my first swim workout since last summer.  I did ten 100 yard repeats.  This time I swam 400 yards for the warmup.  In the past I only have done about 200 yards but it seems that I feel better after a little more warmup.  Another sign of getting old I guess.  In surprise, I was able to hit my same times that I did in the past.  Now maybe I can get faster in the pool by September when I'll be doing my first tri of the season.  It would be nice not to be so far behind coming out of the water.  I got time to really see if I can improve.

I don't have any other races planned til then so I'll just keep following my marathon training plan.  I'll be hanging steady with some 30 something mile weeks until August when I'll start cranking up the long runs as I head towards the Baltimore peak.  I kindof dread the those long runs.  It's hard to stay focused for such long runs.  So not only will I be training my body but I'll be training my brain.  The brain definitely says it's hurting and you need to slow down and why are you being stupid, let's just walk.  Crap like that all the time.  It's like the little devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other.  The devil is telling you to just slow down and we'll only walk for a bit.  The angel is trying to keep you encouraged by saying, "Just think of qualifying for Boston and Wellesley".

It's super cold here again.  Well only high 50s which might feel warm to some people but after a few weeks of 80 degree weather it's cold.  Hopefully, it will turn warm again soon in order to keep getting bike miles in.