Fast for me, but not fast enough!

RUN: 6.6 miles in 56 mins, ave HR 162
SWIM: 1000y in about 25-30 mins

Oh what a gorgeous morning! Made for running, being outdoors, and being fast! I know that you can only run or race what you train, and that I need to be patient for the speed to come back, but goddamn the group was fast this morning! I was dropped before 1.5 miles and after they left I felt really slow. I had the Garmin but wasn't looking at it. Maybe I should have--it would have been encouraging to know that I was running the same (relatively) fast pace as last week.

I should have known when I hit the bridge at 45 mins, but instead I was more focused on the fact that I needed to keep moving, keep turning it over, keep pushing. Knowing the group would be waiting at the VC was a big help there, I hated to think they'd be waiting for a walker. So I didn't walk. And in the end, I wasn't that far behind them.

For the first time I think, I went swimming after the Thursday run. It's in the Ultra training plan but I don't think I ever actually did it. I had rescheduled the swim to Friday. LC has been following this, so I joined her at the pool. I set a goal of 1000y as 10x100 and stuck to it. Maybe a little too much, I probably could have done more. But should I have done more? My form really falls apart once I get tired. I'd be drilling bad habits into my swim.

But at the same time, I pushed the run. So why not push the swim?