Today was a run day and I feel like I actually made the most of it despite being all tired and lazy. The gym is a lot more crowded now at 6:00AM than it was in the winter. I guess now that people know the summer is coming they're all trying to lose weight. So of course that means there was no where to stretch because all the mats were occupied by some big girls who looked like they were taking naps or something so I just headed right to the treadmills.
I couldn't decide if I should just run for 50 minutes at a relaxing 7.5 mph like last week just to get some base miles again or if I should have done some speed which I haven't done much of.
I ended up varying speeds for most of the run keeping the treadmill at a 1% incline.
Warm up:
5min @ 8.0
5min @ 7.6
Main Set:
1min @ 7.7
1min @ 7.8
And that continued up to 9.0 then came back down to 7.7
Went for a few more minutes at 7.7 then 8.0. and then worked my way down to 7.0 dropping each minute. Totalled 55 minutes for 7.4 miles. At 6.2 I was 45:15. I'm hoping I'll have the legs to be about a minute faster than that at St. Anthony's after the bike.
Even though I was feeling a little sluggish on my bike last night there's a voice in my head telling me I might be able to get under 2:10 at this race but everything has to be perfect. I don't know why I'm thinking that, it would be nearly impossible for me and it'll really depend on the cycling.
19:30 swim
1:04:30 bike (23.1 mph) Not sure if that's possible for me
44:15 run (8.4 mph) Might be possible, I know I can do this fresh
2:09:15 without transitions.
That's like a 2:13 with transitions. I think I'll need to be under 2:10 to get top 10 in the age group which is my goal right now. I know my goal should be to have fun completing my first Olympic distance race, but hell with that, I want to show up and be competitive.
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