BIKE 1hr and 17.5 miles, some intervals at 75%
SWIM 1hr and 2400y, with a 500y TT in 9:17
COMMUTE 6 miles
The bike was boring, so Ima gonna skip talking about it.
I wanna talk about the swim! So I'm still feeling tired and sluggish, and I had yet another morning of falling off my schedule. At least I got to the bike at a decent time, but I was running an hour later than planned. I bike to work, got a few things done, then headed to the pool. Due to the schedule change-up, my nutrition was out of whack and my stomach was growling. I knew the fuel was on-board, but that empty feeling still isn't pleasant.
Today's plan was to make up for Monday's missed Evolve swim. I've heard that everyone improved on their 500y TT time from late March and I had a feeling I was the only swimmer left to report in. So I used the workout SM sent me with some mods. My WU was a 400, I alternated swim-pull-swim-pull using each 100 to try to figure out what about the pull I need to bring into my swim, since my pull is so much better. Then 4x50 as drill/swim. I did 2 as getting my butt-higher and 2 as eyes-up. Ironically the eyes-up swim means butt-down. Then 4x50 fast.
Now for the TT! I'm still not terribly fired up or feeling sparky for this. But in the last few laps of the WU, I heard a song from JM's Savageman workout CD, I knew the song but not the singer, title, or most of the lyrics. But it goes "hey, don't write yourself off yet, it's only in your head you feel this down...just do your best, do everything you can..." Perfect song! (I also heard that stupid "So Happy" song that I hate, I'm so sick of hearing that song, so that's not going into the songlist!). My goal here is to beat my previous time of 10:25 and maybe get a sub-10 500y time.
Push off and start the clock! I'm terribly mindful of counting the laps, fearing that if the time was way unexpected I'd blame a skipped or added lap. The first 5 slide right by, and although I debate getting a split time, I don't. A problem recently in my longer intervals is that I do positive splits -- slowing down as the set gets longer. I'm less focused, my form falls off, and I can notably feel the slowing pace. Not today, I'm rocking the laps, boom boom boom.
So when I finish and see the time of 9:17:85 -- I don't believe it! I skipped a lap!?!? No, I counted! But...but...a WHOLE MINUTE? One way to test this, I need to do another 100 at the same pace right now. Off I go. I mess up the turns, I'm so distracted and doing the mental math.
I did the 100y in 1:48?! WTH?!?!?!? SERIOUSLY!?! No way I miscounted, so the time above is REAL. I took 1:08 off my 500 time, it works out to a 1:51 pace for the 100y!!! HOLY CRAP.
The rest of the swim felt messy, I was smiling and sluggy at the same time. But I got it done and scooted back to work.
OMG!! Now I'm planning out a sub-9! Flip turns alone might help there :)
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