Monday - Thursday May 14-17

It's been a busy few days.
Monday - Swim in the morning. It was fairly tiring because there were lots of fast 25's from the blocks with push-ups after. It really beat me up. At lunch I headed to the gym and hit the weights. Unfortunately after the gym I didn't have time to get through my lunch before a long meeting and I doozed off for a second and I got caught during it! That's never good. I skipped my planned run Monday night in favor of resting.

Tuesday - Run after work. Got some hills in there and a nice long loop around a pond. 7.53 miles at 8:10 average. Just cruising and enjoying sucking in all the pollen. Total time was 1:01.

Wednesday - Swim 3,400. Lift at lunch and then 65 minute lactate threshold workout on the trainer during the thunder showers. Those lactate workouts are pretty tough. I hope they pay off.

Thursday - Today was the day I was worried about, I decided to attempt 10 miles running and I know the jump is more than 10% but I've got to get up there and get it done. I had an all day meeting in East Providence so I headed to the bike trail after that and just followed the mile markers. I went out 5.19 miles in 42:03 and then just tried to descend the miles coming back. I was something like 7:50, 7:42, 7:38, 7:32, 7:36. I can't really remember but the splits are on my other computer. I'll check it out later. I felt fairly controlled but I thought I was going a little faster. I resisted looking at my watch during the run because I didn't want to be influenced by the times. I just wanted to get the miles in. I ended up with 10.38 in 1:22:22. It was a 7:57 average. I at least have confidence that I can run 13.1 miles when I have to. Just don't know if I can do that after 56 miles yet. I'll give it a shot one of these days.

All in all it was a good day and it's been a solid week for workouts. Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up and have enough confidence in my abilities to get under five hours at Vineman.
27 minute swim - 2:40 bike - 1:45 run. That would get my under 5:00 even if I took my time in the transitions and I think it's reasonable.