Forced swim

SWIM 60 mins and 2500y MS of 10x150 at 75-80%, alternated swim and pull

Here we go again. I’m tired. Again. What’s new, right?

I haven’t been in the pool since last Saturday’s long swim, and here it is Friday. Needless to say my GTD challenge mileage is behind (by 2 miles at the end of today’s swim) and I still have about 13-15 miles to go if I’m going to hit 100miles by the end of June. A safer gamble is to shoot for 100 miles in IM CdA cuz we all know I’m not going to be swimming all that much in recovery week…

Precisely, I’m at 85.86 miles right now. There are 15days plus some hours until IM. That’s about a mile a day. I’ll need to be at 97.6 – 98 miles in 15 days, which works out to 12.2 miles to go before IM in 15 days or 2 weeks, which is 6.1 miles a week…which is just under 11K yards a week. I plan to swim a 4K this Sunday…which reduced the goal to only 8.7K per week…UGH…why am I so focused on that?

I guess my point was that I didn’t swim much this past week! When I’m tired, swimming is usually the last thing I want to do. Drag myself to a pool, pay $6-9 for a swim, get in cold water, and go back-and-forth, back-and-forth, back-and-forth, back-and-forth, back-and-forth…  On top of that, it takes a lot of focus for me to swim properly. Form goes first for me (I’ve got the endurance thing nailed) and when form goes my speed drops off and I just get frustrated.

So it went today, without the frustration. On my 14^th and last YMCA punch pass, I forced myself into the water late in the morning (about 830am!) and randomly picked a workout from the card stack. Thankfully it was a short interval main set, those help with the focus. At first my mind said “2500 is so short” but right after it said “10x150 is long!”. Whiner. HTFU.

I was in a good mood, but not in good form. My right arm was obviously sweeping poorly and my left shoulder/arm was dragging more than usual. On the plus side, I did a 2x25 swim in which I did alternate side breathing just fine! When I tried it again later, it wasn’t quite so fine.

I’m back in the fatigue zone of “I shouldn’t even be driving”. My focus and motivation are really low. I just want to sleep, but it doesn’t come easy for me.

And I have a 6-7hr ride planned for tomorrow…