Short on Time

Today's swim was a good one. Not the fastest, but pretty consistent. Unfortunately, I have no idea how I skipped 2 from the second set of 100s. I was even using counters. I didn't get in the full swim because of time constraints, but I was happy with how I felt in the water and how hard I worked while working.

• 350 warm up
• 8×25 drill
  
• 8×100@5sec: 1:32.44, 1:37.35, 1:38.33, 1:38.31, 1:35.94, 1:36.61, 1:40.22, 1:40.55 (13:38 total); 1:37.37 average
  
• 8 6×100@1min: 1:29.28, 1:28.65, 1:29.56, 1:30.51, 1:30.02, 1:29.15 (12:28 total); 1:29.67 average
  
• 8×25 kick
• 350 cool down

Some previous averages:

• 4-06-10 (1:34.25 average)
  
• 3-30-10 (1:34.11 average)
  
• 3-17-10 (1:38 average)
• 3-09-10 (1:34.67 average)
• 3-03-10 (1:41.82 average)
• 2-24-10 (1:40.55 average)
• 2-23-10 (1:35.57 average)
• 2-17-10 (1:46 average)
• 2-16-10 (1:39.55 average)

I was aiming for 1:27 for any one of the final 100s and never quite made it. I'll get there eventually. I'm soon going to totally run out of time to complete this workouts at lunch, but I will just continue getting done what I can while I can. Swimming at lunch is 500 times better than running or riding at lunch because I cool down much better after swims.

Then I had a bike ride later. So exciting! I'm disappointed in myself because I didn't change my Garmin from running to biking, so I'll have to delete this when I'm done recording it and I can't do a fair comparison with other rides. I do know that it took me less time to complete the same distance as last Tuesday, 27.7 in 1:28, so that's a plus (27.5 in 1:30, 26.8 in 1:30)!

• Totals: 1:28:21, 27.77 miles, 1963 cal, 3:11 min/mi average (1:36 max), 155 HR (176 max)
  
• Warm up: 20:37, 6.52 mi, 141 HR
  
• Tempo 1: 16 min, 5.56 mi, 2:53 min/mi avg, 166 HR
• Active Recovery 1: 10 min, 3.38 mi, 2:57 avg, 156 HR
  
• Tempo 2: 16 min, 4.62 mi, 3:28 avg, 157 HR
• Active Recovery 2: 10 min, 2.98 mi, 3:21 avg, 160 HR
  
• Cool down: 15:44, 4.7 mi, 3:21 avg, 157 HR

After the ride, I went over to Mexicali Grill to meet some other cyclists who had all ridden together. I had to do a separate workout but decided to be slightly social. It was fun to meet Renee and to see Lonnie and Wade and have some good chats with Christian, Lisa, and Jack. It wasn't so bad :-)