Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Me run, swim, and bike

Hey, I got to swim on Tuesday. I swam 6x50, all out sprints, all at 43 seconds. At least I am consistent, even though slow. One of the really good swimmers has agreed to coach me, starting tomorrow to help me improve my speed, efficiency and endurance. Psyched. I ran 5 miles this morning. 1 mile warm up, 3 mile tempo run, 1 mile cooldown. My tempo pace was supposed to be at 7:13 but because my bloody nike + went on the fritz halfway through I have no idea if I really did it. I tend to think no, but I was within a few seconds I hope. It was very cold (24) and to complicate the matter I chose a loop route that has a decent slope to it. Next time I will choose a flatter route. My overall time as recorded by my watch was 41:00 but I am about ready to throw my nike + crap into the Mississippi River. My heart rate numbers seem to reflect that I was doing a good tempo run so I don't really care about my split times anyway. Ahr was 163, and mhr was 180. My first mile was about 8:30 but I have no idea what my last mile time was so i have no way of calculating my tempo splits. First mile was the fastest, bonked on the second mile, pushed the hardest on the third mile but it was probably my second fastest lap, went way slow on my cooldown mile and then had a good stretch. Tomorrow I will swim and then come home and bike for an hour or so, I hope. Friday easy run of a few miles, Saturday another 5 or 6 miles. I can't wait to hear from you about the baby, good luck, we will be anxiously waiting and praying for you.

2 Comments:

Blogger Jason Fletcher said...

It 4:00 am and we've been up for about an hour. We weren't suppose to get up for another 45 minutes, but Kristi "thinks" her water broke. We called over to the hospital and they said we could hold off for a little but still. Today's going to be a long day. We're very excited though.

Sorry to hear about the nike+! I don't know what I'll ever do without quick access to abundant and accurate data about my runs. Sometimes my motivation to get out is have data to look at.

We'll be thinking a lot about you guys. Just a couple of weeks at the most, right?

Nice job picking up a swimming coach. My only coach is my DVD and that doesn't offer much feedback. Hopefully I can get back into the pool this weekend. Kristi still hasn't bought off on my going tonight.

7:13? Damn that's fast!

Talk to you in a bit. Kristi wants to get over the the hospital.

4:13 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well written article.

12:16 PM  

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