Still catching up this week...unsuccessfully

I'm in catch-up mode for this week's training. I slept in this morning because I had to be up with Paul each time he woke up during the night. Tera is out of town at a work conference. So I lost an hour this morning.

I lost another half-hour at lunch when I decided to just swim because I realized I wouldn't be able to swim a full 1500 and still do a full weight-lifting routine. The swim went well...first time with a heart rate monitor in the pool. I had to come off the wall much more slowly than usual or the chest strap would go down around my stomach. So, my time of 26:00 for a straight 1500 was really slow (that, and I wear big swim trunks with an open pocket to catch water for drag).

After work, I ran 3.5 miles and stopped by the gym to do the lifting routine. That went ok, except for all the ice and mud from another warm day. The lifting went well, but like last night, I just didn't feel strong.

So tomorrow I figure I'll do an 80 minute bike followed by a 40 minute run. It's kind of just to see where I'm at and to get the hours in doing something race specific. I'm planning to do it at a fairly easy pace just to make sure I can finish. Of course, if it's snowing, the run will either get canc'd or greatly shortened. I think it's supposed to be a nice day, though.

This is Build 1 Week 2, and it's not going very well. Last week, I got all my hours but this week fell apart early, as in Monday morning. At least I'm learning early in the year the importance of making sure I hit my workouts when scheduled because it is incredibly difficult to catch up. Last year, I just did whatever I felt like doing, using about a three day look into the future. This bigger, more complex training plan requires sticking to the plan for sure.

I'm also rethinking my swim workouts. Rather than doing 3x500 three times a week, I'm going to move to 3x500 once a week, a 1x1500, and something with a few drills and not so much intensity to it. That should help me recover more, too.