This week is going by fast, gotta love that! In the last two days I've done two swims with a run squished in between.
Yesterday, I swam 1000 meters in 25 minutes. I threw in a few "fast" laps- specifically every fifth lap plus the last 5 laps were fast, fast, slow, fast, fast. I'm not talking about all out sprint, but defintely quicker than usual and my heart really gets a-pumpin.
Then, last night:
5.50 miles/46:57/8:32 average pace
Went to the group again, and did the Graveyard course. Flat first two miles, BIG hill about a mile long, then two miles of downhill (weee!) then flat to the finish. Check out my fantastic splits:
9:17 (warming up)
8:51 (la la la)
8:53 (that's going UP the ginormous hill!)
8:16 (doooooown)
7:47 (weeeeeeeeee!)
3:51 (7:42 pace) for the last half mile.
It was a fun run, and as usual Zach challenged me to push my pace. It felt great. In fact, my legs are feeling 100% this week, which is a relief after a couple weeks of super sore shins.
Then, this morning, back to the pool,
I swam 1000 meters again and I did it in a new record time: 24 minutes! This time I tried to maintain a slightly faster pace the entire time. It felt great. :)
So that's two fast-ish swims and a fast run. Yay! Now to mix it up a bit, I am heading to the ice rink at lunch. My coworker takes lessons over there and has convinced me to go skate around while she practices her turns and jumps. It's been a WHILE since I've laced up the ice skates, so this should be interesting.
6 comments:
Have fun skating at lunch! And great job on the swimming - hopefully it wasn't too hard to get back in the smaller pool after the large outside pool. I bet once you start swimming open water it will be even tougher to swim in the pool.
Hahaha, I enjoyed the commentary on the mile splits on your run. Very funny. I'm glad your legs are feeling strong!
Great swims and runs, Jen! And now, Ice Skating! You are a renaissance woman. I love ice skating. I hope you have a blast with it.
I was complaining all winter about the freezing cold and I never once went skating. I kinda wish now that I had taken advantage of the one benefit of it being cold. Skating is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it. Don't spend too much time doing it though. It uses differnt mucles and you might be sore the next day.
Zippy Run Swimwich---HAHA I love it
that would be a good dot com site.
www.ZIPpyRUN_SWIMich_SKATER.com -haha
ur Workouts are Rocking!!
Ice skating? Wow! That's a change of pace. Good job with the runs and swims.
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