Great Swim

March 12 (Week 4 Day 3) Ironman Triathlon Training

March 10
Took a must needed rest day and played Poker with friends at night (finally after three weeks of the game getting canceled).

March 11
Morning workout got canceled because I had to pick up my car from the shop. It was finally ready after 20 days in the shop.

After work I headed home had dinner and then headed to the gym. I was scheduled to do a quick warmup, long swim, and quick cool down (200 wu, 2500, 4x50 cd). When i got there I decided I needed to push my self a little harder so I did a 300 wu, 3000, 3x100 cd this would put me at just over 2 miles and my goal was to finish in 60 minutes. Warm up was easy and only took 1 minutes rest before I started my long set. The first 1000 went pretty easily and I was averaging just over 1:30 per hundred. The second 1000 I was starting to tire and could definitely feel myself getting distracted I know I wasn't going as fast as I could and a couple times thought I had forgotten what lap I was one. The last 1000 i really pushed myself to stay at a steady pace of 1:40 I found that I could see a second clock on the wall and was timing my 50s to be on the 50seconds. I finished up my long set at just under 50 minutes. I think if i could have focused through out the second 1000 I could have brought that time down but a couple minutes. All in all though I was able to finish the 3600 yards in 60 minutes.

Notes on how my body was feeling. I could definitely feel like I was getting dehydrated after about 1500 yards. At around 2500 yards I could feel my calves starting to feel like they were going to cramp every time I pushed off the wall. this was weird to me considering during my longer sets I barely kick. Next week I"ll try and use Gatorade before I start my swim instead of water to see if there is a difference in the feeling of dehydration and the onset of cramping over the long swim.

March 12
This morning I had to take my car back to the shop because they may have fixed my bumper and trunk but for some reason my interior lights and radio won't work. So that took up all my time before work so I didn't get in my 90 minute bike. Tonight I'm going to try and do my 90 minute run. Goal will be to run 10.5 miles in that time.