Boom Diggity

It has been a great last four days on the training front.

It started out Friday with a two and a half hour ride, finally outdoors. The legs felt great the whole time being it was really the first time outside all year and definitely the first time out on the tri bike. I love the new bike position, dropped the bars down two spacers compared to last year and the new Fizik Tri Arione saddle is awesome.

I really felt like I could have rode longer but opted to call it a day knowing that I had probably gotten a little sunburned as I never remember sun screen, I forgot my sunglasses so my contacts were glued to my eyes and it was suppose to be my rest day. Overall I was really happy with the ride and looking forward to getting back out this weekend.

Saturday I did the Computrainer class at Endure It! which was alright, the main set was 30 minutes mixing up the tempo from 70% to 80% to 90% to threshold randomly throughout the time. Was much more like a race I suppose but was kind of kicking myself as I should of went outside as I didn't really get the full two hour ride in. Oh well, probably was the last Saturday Computrainer class until November.

Sunday was the long run, it was misting but not too cold. I am always debating what to wear when I leave to run as I never want to freeze but would rather be a bit chilly to start and comfortable after a couple of miles. Overall shorts was the right call; even though it drizzled almost the entire time it was actually kind of nice.

We decided to meet up at the Prairie Path in Glen Ellyn, this way it was somewhat centrally located and something different as Rick or I had never ran there before. This worked out great, we had 15 miles on the plan and so we started out by heading east until we hit 4 miles and than turned around to head back, grabbed a quick Gu and water and than went west to finish the next 7. Overall I averaged a 7:38 pace for the duration which I was happy with for a run that long. On a side note it was awesome running there as so many people were out running in that weather, I really like seeing the paths active and folks out and about.

Lately I have been kind of down on swimming, not sure why but the crowd at masters is smaller and overall just been the sport at the bottom of the chain lately. Well tonight I think turned the corner again, after a really long 2000+ warm up it was time for the 500 time trial. I missed last months so wasn't sure what to expect.

In my opinion I think swimming is the one sport of the three that takes the longest and is the hardest to see improvement in. That being said I feel like my swimming is night and day from last year.

So going into the 500 I was just going to go on how the body felt as the legs were a bit tired from the long run on Sunday. The first 250 clicked off in no time and I was actually feeling pretty good so I kept on it and actually had the best 500 of the season, I know that is how it should be but sometimes in the pool the results aren't always what I expect. I was very happy as it seemed easier and I definitely think things are coming around.

Really looking forward to warmer temps towards the end of the week and less than a month until Galena, better get warm quick or that may be a really cold swim.