Its the beginning of March Break which basically means that instead of having to fit my workouts around possible supply calls, I have a week where there are just no excuses not to get er done.
This past week I had two significant milestones take place. Firstly I swam 4km in one workout. And secondly I ran for 20 minutes straight!!! See previous training journals to understand what a big deal that is!
Total swimming mileage for the week was 17.9km
I now have a training plan/calendar for the next 5 months. We're looking at the July 10-12 weekend as the preferred date for my swim. That's only 17 weeks away!! I've told my closest friends about it now. I plan to go public in the next few days. I think people are excited for me, but I don't think they understand exactly what it means to swim a Great Lake, and how could they? I don't even understand exactly what that entails.
Great news from Christine: I DON'T NEED TO DO COLD WATER TRAINING!!!! Not really. At least not yet. Lake Ontario is more unpredictable temperature-wise from Lake Erie and its possible to encounter 11 degree water in the middle of a swim in August simply because of the depth and turn-over of the lake. Lake Erie on the other hand Christine is confident will be absolute minimum 65 F (18 C). I'm only going to think of water temperature in Fahrenheit from now on because Celsius in terms of water means nothing to me. Air yes, water no. Anyways, I will be training in open-water in May where the temperature will be 60 degrees so by July 65-70 degrees will be nothing. Not exactly looking forward to that, BUT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO HOT SHOWERS!!
The next 3 weeks of my training are actually quite low on mileage but the goal is to do some more dry-land/cross training before I continue to build into my swimming endurance.
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