Got my lazy bones out of bed this morning and swam and lifted. The swim was only 1x500 and 1x250, and I'm pretty sure I was a lap short on the 500. But it all felt good. Most importantly, I felt strong again. The lift was the pretty much the same as always; I suppose that means I'm plateauing, which is ok for right now because I will be switching to a "power" phase in April...that's two workouts each week only with higher weights and lower reps. Then I can concentrate on the swim some more. But I'm glad I started the lifting routine because I can really see some difference in my legs.
I ran today, too. With the same effort level and heart rates, I finished the standard lunch course a minute faster than normal. Yeehaw. The time off has helped for sure. Now I have to figure out how to recover properly because I'm sure that was my problem before.
Tomorrow will be a run with Paul and then a muscular endurance workout on the bike. I'm going for 1x35 minutes and 1x30 minutes on the bike.
I found a cool calculator at http://www.analyticcycling.com/. It says I'm doing 28mph on my standard gearing and cadence while on the trainer. That assumes I have all my parameters like cog teeth and diameter correct, which being the newbie biker I am I'm not sure about. To me, that sounds right because if I'm going 28mph on a trainer, that would equate to 22-23 on the open road with wind and road friction and all the other good stuff that slows us down.
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