...now it is time to get focused...again. This past Saturday was a rare rest day but the weather was so nice I thought I might get up and go for an easy run, keep in the routine. I'd had a crazy, busy week and was super tired when I got up on Saturday morning, puttered around the house for a bit and then went back to bed. Convinced myself that I should really take the rest day even though i had not done much all week. Got to my Sunday swim yesterday. Was a good swim in lane 7 again. I had decided I felt like leading that lane as I barely keep up in lane 8 and my stroke goes to hell when I get tired. So in lane 7, I can lead and get a great solid workout, thinking about high elbows, body roll and keeping my head down...not an "omg I am barely hanging on" workout...if that makes any sense. Did some shopping on the weekend and got some new lipgloss...I bought it for the name..."bad kitty". That made me laugh and I had to buy it...not quite my color but I am making it work!! Looking forward, today is another rest day, tomorrow is a hard (for me) run and longer than I have ran (half marathon excluded) in a very long time. Swim on Wednesday morning and a bike ride Wednesday night and that is as far as I have looked. I know I do my very first "brick workout" on Saturday!! Keep y'all posted.
2 comments:
I'd certainly rather lead than follow. Gives you incentive to stay ahead. But every now and then you have to try to keep up with faster people.
As a leader you are not able to benefit from the drafting off others that everyone else does off you - so it's harder work. During race time, you can settle in nicely behond someone a little faster and enjoy the 30% less output required!!
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