Slornow and Wannabefaster's Winter Group version 3-CLOSED (Page 28)

Almost to the weekend gang! Anyone have big plans? Randee...you are going on vacation?

Swim at lunch  is the only workout on the schedule. May try to do some strength work this evening if I'm motivated. Bike Sat and Sunday and another swim on Sunday. I always like to do my swim as the first workout of the day as I feel that running or biking before makes for a tough swim from the previous exertion. Bad thing is that the pool doesn't open until Noon on Sunday and I like to leave the afternoons open for family stuff or napping

This week has gone by fast....other than the time I spend in the pool. Hard to believe only a week left in January. 

SCORE!! School delayed for 2 hours due to "dangerous" ice in the Houston area... lol...

3000 yard swim and 5.5. mile easy run completed for the day. I'm going to declare myself the winner of the Winter Ice Storm Aquathon race. 10 minute transition to check school mail and change clothes between workouts. 

Solid day today...6 AM spin class and a lunch 1500M swim.  I've been working on some of the stuff discussed in Swim Speed Secrets and I'm starting to get some feel for the water.  Slow but sure...

No kidding...I ran outdoors yesterday afternoon.  About 18* and breezy.  The problem was more the footing than anything, and my poor feet got pretty cold.  I have a 6 miler scheduled for tomorrow morning when it's supposed to be about 10*...no way.  Treadmill it is.  Again.

Jamie- 219 to 253 is very impressive! Nice work. 

X2 -- those are some really nice wattage gains, Jamie! Congrats!

Good luck in your marathon this weekend, Kevin!

Jeez, sometimes swimming just blows... there must be some mental games I can play to get my endurance in gear. I just can't get my head around doing "fast" 300-400 yard sets. I'm usually breathing heavy after a "fast" 100 or 200...

- Steve

Jamie-nice work! Always great to see improvement.

Kevin-good luck this weekend!

Steve-I find that when I have a long "fast" set of intervals in the pool or a swim TT I do much better building into the distance than going out hard and trying to hang on. This allows my HR to work up to where it will likely peak rather than shoot up there and stay up there. That high HR and shortness of breath you get when swimming hard are harder for me to hold/tolerate when swimming hard as compared to simialr efforts when running or biking. Bottom line, at least for me, is that swimming is a different animal in terms of pacing and holding long hard efforts.

Originally posted by wannabefaster Had a really nice swim this morning. Felt very comfortable in the water, like I was gliding through it instead of fighting it. Near the end of the swim, the woman that I was sharing the lane with asked me, "did you swim in college." Clearly she hasn't seen what a good swimmer looks like. I told her no but that was the nicest thing that anyone has ever said to me in the pool.

Jason-that's great! That's how I see myself when I'm swimming well. Others probably think "that poor old guy forgot to take his medication today."

Jamie-great blog post. Very funny.

Good solid bike workout this morning. Never felt great building into the workout and the hardest interval was 15 min @260-270 watts. Before I started that interval I was already rationalizing why I would not be able to make the numbers. Strangely, I felt pretty strong and ended up with avg power @ 266 for the interval. Finished off with another good interval and was happy with the workout. Looking ahead at next week's schedule I have a 10 min. TT on Tuesday........I @#$% hate testing. Tomorrow is another 60--70 min on the bike and 3400 swim......already rationalizing how little of the swim I can actually do without feeling like a slacker. Maybe I'll surprise myself.