Big day today. Finally got my butt out of bed this morning and swam 1x1000 with 500s at 8:16 and 8:24. Water is still hot. My pace is way off of what it was last year, when I was swimming 7:40s and sometimes 7:30s, which were at lunch when I swim better because I've had a chance to wake up but still significantly faster than where I'm at now.
Bike the Barton hill at lunch, but only twice because I had to be sure to be back at a meeting that the big boss was attending. First time up tied my PR at 8:05, second time up was a 8:26. Lots of wind on the way down, and I found (thankfully before the ride) that my front quick-release was loose..tightened that up of course.
The run scheduled for today was a big run. I wanted to do my 10k route in the heat without any energies (gels, endurolytes, etc). It went well, I finished in 54:05, two minutes off my time from Friday after a 40k bike. Guess my legs were tired. I also stopped by the track to do two pace laps, with the 400s coming in a 1:59 and 2:00 flat. Total of seven minutes to get off the route, do the laps, and get back onto the route at predetermined split locations (I love it when a plan comes together on split locations!). I finished strong, but overall time was a bit slower than expected.
Then I had to mow the yard. Thankfully, we've xeriscaped about half of it in the spring, so I'm down to 30 minutes of mowing and 10 minutes of sweeping up the clippings on the street. And we have a small hill that is a bear to get up and down...of course, tonight was the night I mowed up and down the hill instead of across.
I love days like this when I do all three events. The challenge is to do something tomorrow and not just blow it off cuz "I'm tired."
Got the Triathlon magazine from USAT yesterday. Interesting articles on "What to do when things go wrong during your workout." It didn't cover unplanned pool closings and such like I have problems with. Bottom line: always have a backup workout plan and then DO IT.
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