T-221 days

November 20, 2013

T-221 days- so it has begun the count down to Ironman, though this seems like A Lot of time, it still makes me nervous it is approaching so fast. Today, was an early morning for a swim workout. I got up at 5:30 to be out the door by 6, in the pool by 6:45 out by 7:20 to get to work. I leave early a lot in order to avoid sitting in traffic for an hour and a half and have been pretty successful.  Today, I swam 50 laps in 30 min which means I should be able to swim 150 laps (a bit more than the 2.4) in 90 minutes... And giving me about 50 minutes wiggle room. That was awesome.

Today the focus was a continuous 35 minute swim-- my specific focus was good form. I started with ten laps in drills. I then moved on to the meat of the swim, tucking head, being stream line, getting elbows out of the water. My stroke has gotten much better and I have gotten faster but undoing 25 years of bad habits makes swimming a very conscious effort.  The cool thing was, I did this swim slower in order to focus so I probably could have swam faster.

Now if I can just cut an hour off my bike time or atleast 30 minutes I will feel much more confident in that area. I still have a 45 minute run tonight which should be interesting as it has been raining all day, I have no street lights just my head lamp for light...very Friday the 13th.

Vive la Vida,

-Jeannine-