Its Good Friday. I have 2 full days off before my 7km on Monday. I decided I wasn't going to eat any sugar this week in order to maybe give my body that little extra edge of nutrition on Monday. I however am an idiot and forgot that Easter is synonymous with chocolate. In order to avoid falling into a pit of despair however, I have decided that I will still hoard all the chocolate bunnies I want and consume them on Monday in celebration!
Mileage this week was 16.9 km. I know the mileage numbers seem random but they're based on an outline of me increasing my distance by 10% each week.
I had some interesting workouts this week. You may recall how I said that I cannot sprint and swim endurance at the same time. This remains true, however thats exactly what I was asked to do not once, but twice this week. On Monday we did Brock's version of a "Test Set" which is: swim 400m as fast as you can. At a comfortable pace I would normally come in just under 8 minutes, which is still faster than the average human (based on my several years of teaching Bronze Med). Monday is did it in 6:23! And I did a 25 minute run earlier that day, another new record for me! Then, not 12 hours later at my Tuesday morning practice we did 3 x 300m as fast as we could. I came in at 4:45, 4:51, and 4:50. I beginning to build a bit more of a sense of my speed. Like I can usually tell when its been a good 100m or not, and I can control more subtle increases and decreases in my speed.
I'm so nervous for Monday. 7km is 280 lengths of the pool. 280 flip turns. My goal is under 2 hours 20 minutes. Christine would love it to be closer to the 2 hour mark. We'll see.
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