bigDH's accountability training a.k.a Beer Drinker's Appreciation Society (Page 32)

Great job on the ride!

The only wind I had was the fan as I pedalled in the basement while it snowed over a foot yesterday...

Have kept up my running this past couple weeks.  My brothers wife that was missing, her body was recovered in New Mexico... so this last few weeks has been focused on helping him and trying to get in workouts in when i could.

I am up to 26+ miles a week with a long of 10 miles.  But my body so sore from working on my new house i wonder if ill be able to run the 10 scheduled for today. 

With life settling down i hope to be back and more active on the mentor group

Monday's here... and mother nature is giving us a hard time down here.  It's been raining nonstop for the past 3 days!  I was able to get in a swim this morning.  Not too much since the lifeguards closed the pool on me.

The plan was to swim 3100 meters.  I got in 1700 and even that was rough.  The lifeguards put me out of my misery.  The actual workout:

300 Warm up
4x75 Choice
400
2x200
100 kick
200
Pool Closed for weather

Plan for the rest of the week:
Tomorrow: Most likely gym since the rain is not supposed to let up until late tonight.

Wednesday: Swim

Thursday: Bike and walk

Friday: Swim

I think that's a lot of training.  But you are going long, and you need a great training base to do so.  Where does this relate to past training efforts?  How much will this impede life?  those are two ?'s I'd have to answer for myself looking at that kind of volume.  That's impressive.

Spent 1 hour in the pool today.  I did TI drills for 20 min, followed by a 1500 yd swim.  Day 1 of HIM plan on this site.  This was my first swim since reading TI and focussing on nothing but TI drills over last two weeks of swims.  I think by the end of 1500, my form was right where it was before, I was counting 28-30 strokes/ 25 yds.  At the beginning, I did a few 25's at 24 strokes, and in the drills, I did a few at 18.  I think it will sink in.  My goal is by end of HIM plan that I can swim better than previous 2:15/100 wall I was at for last few months.  Hoping TI can help.

I finished with a 5.5 miler at 8:16/mile.  It snowed yesterday, and dropped down to 16deg. F, so the roads were bad, and I was all bundled in 3 layers.

Tomorrow, I do a 1hr spin bike and sprint training on the treadmill.

Must be a hockey game tonight to snag 4 beer!

Tough call...volume wise you are okay but like Kevin, some of my training is dictated by work and family. I am not willing to give up that much of my family time yet. Now when the kids are teens and they can come kick my , that will be a different story.

Sorry to hear about your loss. It is good to have focus in these times.

Well went for a swim with the kids last night. Tried to do a few laps....no go with the shoulder yet!

Did a spin class this morning. Great way to start the morning!

During the middle of the season my college coach usually made us do the drills either at the end of a particularly tough workout or during warm down... his stance was that when you become tired your stroke is going to go back to what's natural (or what you've been doing all along).  When you're doing the drills when you're tired, your retraining your body to do the correct form.

It helped, and that's what I'm doing with my kids.  It's something to try and see if you stay in better form for longer distances.

That makes good sense.  I was so sloppy by the last 500 of the 1500.  Maybe split the drills, and do half after the main set? 

Back on the bike today for an hour.  followed by sprint 8 training.  Tomorrow I'll be back in the pool and do some more sprint training.

hope all are well.

You can start with the drills and then go into the main set... as soon as you feel yourself going back to bad form, stop and throw in more drills.  Then work up the yardage between drill sets so you can do the whole main set in good form and see how that works.  

Nice work!  How's those beers taste?

Sorry to hear that your shoulder is still bugging you but I really like the fact that you are still getting out there and getting it done!  Nice work!!!

3100 meters today!  Pretty slow but I chugged through.

300 free warm up
4x75 kick
2x400 free
2x100 Kick
1x400 Free
2x100 Kick
14x50 (7 free, 7 back)
200 EZ 

Back on the bike tomorrow, haven't been on it in over 2 weeks.  We'll see how that goes! 

And since it's the end of February:

Goals met:
~Beat Jan swim totals

Goals not met:
~3 1+hr rides
~Weight
~1 mile straight run

March Goals:
~Getting eating back on track by: drinking at least 4 glasses of water a day, eating 2+servings of veggies and 1-2 servings of fruits
~Beat the bike mileage (bike more than 48 miles)
~Decide and register for first race 

I think at the end of this, you'll have made a swimmer out of me.  Thanks Coach!  I'm going to do just what you said, when I feel the form blowing up, I'm going back to the TI drills.  Each swim will get a little better each time.