I had such grand plans

So my original thought for today's post was to synthesize the comments and suggestions I received on my blog and detail the changes I plan to make as a result.  As one of my professor always says, you shouldn't ask for opinions if you're not going to do anything about them!

Unfortunately between today's two workouts and finance midterm, my 6am wake up tomorrow, 3 hours of commuting, 30 minute group presentation, and Thursday's 12 page paper to edit and Quality midterm to study for, I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed and drained. As such, while I agree with my professor, I also don't want to make promises I'm not sure I can keep yet!

So until I can get a handle on my life, we'll all just have to make due with the addition of the training totals tab & this selfie, just for Steve (which is also a shout out to him, so I guess I'm not so bad at responding to feedback after all)!

Holly helping me stretch after Sunday's run

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Training plan - 29 minute run, 48 minute swim

Ok so, the training plan didn't actually call for 2 workouts today but it was the only way I could get these in!

My plan - I sketched out a plan for intervals this morning and planned to push myself with the run.  The plan called for 3 minutes fast and 2 minutes slow with 1.5% incline on the slower sections.  For the swimming portion of today's training I planned to do drills and work on technique instead of killing myself for 2 workouts!

Actual Running - I actually pushed myself a bit harder than I thought I could/would! I bumped up the speeds from my original plan and the incline as well.

MPH                      Min/Mile         Incline                      # of Minutes      Cumulative Minutes

 5.0                        12:00             0%                            2:00                   2:00

 5.5                        11:00             0%                            1:00                   3:00

 6.0                        10:00             0%                            1:00                   4:00

 6.3                         9:30              0%                            1:00                   5:00

 6.7                         8:57              0%                            3:00                   8:00

 6.3                         9:30              1.5%                         2:00                   10:00

 7.1                         8:30              0%                            3:00                   13:00

 6.7                         8:57              1.5%                         2:00                   15:00

 7.5                         8:00              0%                            3:00                   18:00

 6.3                         9:30              2.0%                         2:00                   20:00

 7.1                         8:30              1%                            3:00                   23:00

 6.3                         9:30              2.0%                         2:00                   25:00

 6.7                         8:57              1%                            3:00                   28:00

 6.0                         10:00            2.0%                         2:00                   30:00

With the 3 minute cool down I ran 3.46 miles, average 9:31/mile and felt great!

Actual Swimming - By the time I got to the pool at 11 I was running a bit behind and beginning to feel drained. I powered through my drills it was a struggle.

WARM UP

·       200 SWIM

·       50 KICK

·       50 SWIM

DRILLS

·       6 x 50 : 25m Thumb-to-Thigh drill, 25m swim

1      100m swim

·       6 x 50 : 25m Touch-and-Go drill, 25 yards swim. 

2      200m swim

·       5 x 100 : 25 yds kick, 25 yds Thumb-to-Thigh, 25 yds Touch-and-Go, 25 Swim·

COOL DOWN:

·        200 SWIM (more if needed for time)

         76 lengths total