The weekend was good and bad. Saturday I went on a run with Jason and Eric. We decided to run the 10 mile Vine course. I started out feeling ok, but after the first couple of miles I started to struggle. My legs felt like logs. The run boiled down to survival. Closing in on the finish of the course we ran through the park trying to hold a 8 min pace. I couldn’t do it. I got dropped. It was not my day! I ended up walking and jogging the rest of the way back to Eric’s house.
This was not the way to start of the weekend.
Sunday I decided to give masters swim another shot. I have been swimming 2-3 times a week for the past 6-7 weeks. I don’t feel fast by any means, but I have got some endurance back. Anyhow…. Masters swim was packed. I don’t recall seeing this many people at the pool. Each lane had 4-5 people in it. I took this as an excuse to join in on lane 1. The slow lane.
When I say the slow lane, I really mean, slow. I mean more recovery. I probably swam close to the same pace as if I was in a faster lane, but I got much more recovery between sets.
I wish I could remember the exact workout. I think I ended up with somewhere around 25oo yards. I felt pretty good about this swim.
Later Sunday afternoon, I broke out my netflix dvd, Vision Quest. Tim Deboom talked about some inspirational movies in his latest article in Triathlete Magazine. I had never seen this movie, which was from 1985.
The movie had a great soundtrack, including Madonna, and Journey, which was really motivating when riding the trainer. I ended up with a puddle of sweat and 25 miles.
I also got to test out my new ISM Adamo saddle and my first impression was good.
