Sunday swim day today. Filled my truck up with gas on the way out to the pool...$72...today was the last time I drive to the pool...on my bike...every sunday from now on!!! I have even googled mapped a route...all set!
Today's workout was a warm up...and then 5 x 300s. First, third and fifth one at your 1500 meter race pace...numbers 2 and 4 at your 400 meter pace. The repeat times for my lane were on the board as 5:30 minutes per 500...okay...no problem!
Yeah right.
I swim with boys and their testosterone...so they decide to make our repeat times 5 minutes. Okay...now we have a problem.
We did the first one in about 4:16....holy....mother....of....god. I could not breathe, my arms were dead, 4 more of those? Thank goodness I had brought my legs with me to the pool...yesterday was only a 12 km run...my goal after that first one was to hang on for dear life. I considered moving down a lane...we had lost one dude...but I made my mind up to just try.
Let's call it a pride thing.
Throw out the goal pace. I was just trying to keep up and not embarrass myself.
A little guts goes along way!
Kept up with all my runs this past week...My hip hurt like a bitch after the 18 km run last Saturday so opted for some less intense stuff and just run for the hell of running. Have decided to run the Policeman's Half next weekend (Sat) AND the big daddy...Queen City Marathon in September. The full 42km. My run in Boston has not sat well with me all year. I can do a much better job of a marathon. And I have a training partner this time around so it should be a good time until those last 5km next September....
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