Day 26: 5/10/2010

I just got in my new swim workout book from Trisports.com and I have been excited to try a workout from there. I already own vol 1 but I wanted vol2 because the workouts are longer in the 2nd edition. Today I tried to finish the first workout in the book which was 4400 yards total but I ran out of time as our pool here has shitty hours. I was able to swim 3700 in 1:15. My favorite part of the workout was doing a broken 250 where I went hard for a 100, then 3 50's. The 100's were under 1:20 and the 50's were under :40. I was :Pleased. Next time I will have to get to the pool with enough time to finish some of these!

Day 25: 5/9/2010

Well, all I can report from the last 4 days is that track is over. Kids did great and I am very proud of all of them. Boys team was 5th and girls were 7th. Hopefully, more than anything, I hope they left the state meet with a fire in their belly that they want to be better. I look forward to XC and to see who will come out guns a blazin!

Tomorrow starts 3 weeks of great training for the Deuces Wild triathlon festival in Show Low, AZ. I have an Olympic distance race on Saturday and an Xterra on Sunday. Emma may even get in on the action with the kids duathlon.

Day 21: 5/4/2010

Swam a 3000 and ran 8 miles in 1:05. My swim felt good but my run did not. The run was right after the swim and I don't know if that has something to do with it but I didn't feel speedy. It felt labored and uncomfortable.

Day 20: 5/4/2010

3200 swim. I don't understand why they keep the pool here so freakin warm... 84 degrees does not feel good when it is 84 degrees outside. On the positive side, the weather is awesome! I am looking forward to the opening of the city pool though which is long course and not heated (at least not to the extrene the university pool is) so the water is always refreshing.

Day 19: 5/3/2010

Ran with the track team after school for :45 then 6x200 @ mile pace. Wanted to swim after that but decided at the last minute to go meet the family at the park in the neighborhood. I also gave our dog, Kona (nice, huh) a bath and washed the yukon. That's my day!

Side note: Mike and I are making some plans for some epic training at Elephant Butte Lake in the near future, stay tuned.

Day 18: 5/2/1020

Today I went up to Albuquerque for the Run for the Zoo 10k. I was secretly hoping to break :40 but I finished in :42 and 6:47 pace. Not bad, not great. I'd like to say my legs were a little tired from yesterdays bike ride :) I didn't feel "tired" but my legs just couldn't turn over any faster than that today. I finished 45th overall and 6th in my age group out of 1328 finishers.

I was even more happy that my wife and mother-in-law ran the 5k and Emma ran the fun run mile. We spent all morning there at the zoo in the cold drizzly weather cheering each other on.

This week I'm looking forward to my last week of track practice and meets and some better weather. One thing I need to do is not have a breakdown in training and do very little on Friday and Saturday when I am in Albuquerque for the state track meet. Stay tuned.

Day 17: 5/1/2010

Longest ride in a very long time and I felt great to boot! I started out riding South on NM state road 1 but was forced to turnaround after 20 miles because of rain, wind and cold (WTF it's May?). I stopped by the house at mile 40 and got some arm warmers on and continued North of town to Polvadera and back to add another 27 miles for a grand total of 67 miles in a moving time of 3:46 according to my trusty Garmin. I averaged 17.7 mph and burned almost 4,100 calories. I feel awesome!

I started a little too late so by the time I got back, ate, and relaxed a little the pool was already closed so no swimming. Tomorrow I am running in the Run for the Zoo in Albuquerque. I am doing the 10k and I am excited because it has been a very long time since I ran an open 10k. I think the last one was Run Old Mesilla and Mike laughed at me when I crossed the line in like 45 minutes. Sucked.