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It's funny, that "on the 5:00" sounds really easy, but I know darn well that's a brutal workout.  Those all-out efforts where you're pushing out past the "speed" (like 50s) into the "anaerobic" areas are really tough.  Then again, I ran the 400 in high school so I like that kind of pain. 

Last night was 2500 SCY, followed by an upper body and core strength session at the gym.  My daughter swims for two hours on Mondays and Wednesdays so I'm basically marooned at the gym for that time, so I have no excuses.  I've been lucky so far on getting a pool lane, too.  They only have one available during swim practice and I've been able to grab it twice now - I probably just jinxed myself there.

Bikram Yoga this morning - modified some poses to account for my back flaring up.

Happy Thursday!

Originally posted by nicole14e Back after my trip down to Jacksonville. It was an amazing weekend. The weather was perfect, the Ravens won, and everyone I went with was really great. Downside is I drank A LOT of cheap beer and didn't work out every day. Got a run in on Friday and did a boot camp workout on the beach on Saturday. Going to run this afternoon, ending at the bike shop where I will pick up my newly tuned up bicycle. My race is Saturday. I am a bit anxious. I haven't swam in a week and a half and had a heavy weekend, but hopefully I trained enough before to get me through. Would love to PR on this course, but have lowered my expectations a bit

Might be a moot point - we're supposed to get like 3-5 inches of rain between now and the race.  Hopefully the swim won't be cancelled because of water quality issues from all that runoff.

Originally posted by drfoodlove

Originally posted by nicole14e

Originally posted by jmhpsu93

Originally posted by nicole14e Back after my trip down to Jacksonville. It was an amazing weekend. The weather was perfect, the Ravens won, and everyone I went with was really great. Downside is I drank A LOT of cheap beer and didn't work out every day. Got a run in on Friday and did a boot camp workout on the beach on Saturday. Going to run this afternoon, ending at the bike shop where I will pick up my newly tuned up bicycle. My race is Saturday. I am a bit anxious. I haven't swam in a week and a half and had a heavy weekend, but hopefully I trained enough before to get me through. Would love to PR on this course, but have lowered my expectations a bit

Might be a moot point - we're supposed to get like 3-5 inches of rain between now and the race.  Hopefully the swim won't be cancelled because of water quality issues from all that runoff.

I saw that :-/ lame This race has bad luck. It was cancelled last year due to a threat of a hurricane (Joaquin maybe?) and two years ago, my first year doing it, it was overcast, I think it rained some and it was SUPER windy. The buoy apparently got blown in the water and the swim ended up being longer because of it. Ran 3 miles pretty fast last night. I meant to take it easy, but ran 8:25 pace. It was mostly downhill or flat, but it made me feel better about this weekend!

Here's hoping for no whammies!! Good luck Nicole!!! Mike--are you doing this race too? Good luck to you too if so!

Nope, no racing for me.  Back is still too twitchy to be running.  The race is only like 4 miles from my house and I ride over there all the time (and it's the best OWS practice around here...).  It's definitely one I plan to do sometime in the future, though the first weekend of October makes the weather a little sketchy (see Nicole's post).

Originally posted by nicole14e

Originally posted by drfoodlove

Originally posted by nicole14e

Originally posted by jmhpsu93

Originally posted by nicole14e Back after my trip down to Jacksonville. It was an amazing weekend. The weather was perfect, the Ravens won, and everyone I went with was really great. Downside is I drank A LOT of cheap beer and didn't work out every day. Got a run in on Friday and did a boot camp workout on the beach on Saturday. Going to run this afternoon, ending at the bike shop where I will pick up my newly tuned up bicycle. My race is Saturday. I am a bit anxious. I haven't swam in a week and a half and had a heavy weekend, but hopefully I trained enough before to get me through. Would love to PR on this course, but have lowered my expectations a bit

Might be a moot point - we're supposed to get like 3-5 inches of rain between now and the race.  Hopefully the swim won't be cancelled because of water quality issues from all that runoff.

I saw that :-/ lame This race has bad luck. It was cancelled last year due to a threat of a hurricane (Joaquin maybe?) and two years ago, my first year doing it, it was overcast, I think it rained some and it was SUPER windy. The buoy apparently got blown in the water and the swim ended up being longer because of it. Ran 3 miles pretty fast last night. I meant to take it easy, but ran 8:25 pace. It was mostly downhill or flat, but it made me feel better about this weekend!

Here's hoping for no whammies!! Good luck Nicole!!! Mike--are you doing this race too? Good luck to you too if so!

Thank you! It has been dumping rain pretty hard all last night and morning, with no sign of really letting up. No bueno...

Just make sure you get your tetanus booster shot beforehand. 

Well, at least you're not swimming in the Patapsco or Back Rivers...blech!!!

September is in the books (2nd highest swim month ever for me):

Swim: 8h 47m 25s - 23950.37 Yd

Bike: 11h 29m 08s - 199.3 Mi

Run: 13m 30s - 1.35 Mi

Strength: 8h 35s

Hiking: 4h 38m 10s

Incline Treadmill Walking: 1h 21m 30s

Shooting for 30K in the water and 250 miles on the trainer in October.