With a bunch of us racing this weekend, we had a slightly different workout this morning, including the racers cutting the workout short. I didn't mind that too much, since it was a pretty tough workout. I brought out the wetsuit for the warm-up, to get one more time in it before Sunday. I felt pretty good, and just out of curiousity, did a timed 50. At 90-95%, I did 40-45 seconds, which is a ridiculous improvement over my usual. As long as my lungs don't freeze, I really think averaging 1:50/100m is more than doable.
The crux of the workout was sets of 4x50m sprints. I was in a heat with some of my new lanemates, so I had to go all-out. Unexpectedly, I won every sprint. Either they weren't going too hard, or my flailing works well for 100m or less. Now I need to learn to stretch that out.
Swim: 15 minutes of perimeter swim (~500m)
2x(4x50m sprints
100 ez free
200 ez pull)
4x50 drills
4x50 ez non-free
4x50 ez free
4x50 ez pull
Total: 2300m
Tonight is just an easy run, keeping the legs loose. Tomorrow my plan is to knock out about 70km. Other people will be doing 140-160km, training to race on tired legs, but that's not how I want to go into my first triathlon. The 70 should be easy, with lots of recovery Saturday afternoon. The only thing I need to figure out is whether I want to go outside, or stick to the trainer. The weather is looking iffy, but I'd also like to test the bike after last week's disaster. I guess I'll decide when I wake up tomorrow.
Run: 3 miles @ 7.2 mph
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I'm still inside... waiting for this damn storm to blow over. Hopefully you are now sitting back and enjoying some recovery.
Good luck tomorrow; looking forward to the RR!
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