Days 30 and 31 - Keep on keeping on!

One month in and I know I am already a faster runner with so much more improvement still to come!

Two days of pretty hard workouts and I am really beat.  Working 10 hours and trying to fit in 2 hours of workouts is nice in theory but leaves me pretty zombified.

Yesterday my workout consisted of an hour of swim drills - I never used to do drills - I would just pound out laps of freestyle - do as many laps for a mile or a mile and a quarter or mile and a half and go home.  I never got faster but I could confidently say I could swim the distance.  Drills whup my butt and help me get better with form - which in theory should then help me perform better come race days.  So here is what I did at the pool:

    WU-  100 Swim free
         150 Kick w/fins and board
         100 Swim free
         150 Kick w/fins and board

   12 x 50  (First and fourth time use fins)
         1- 6 count catch-up free
         2- 3 count arm switch
         3- breaststroke w/buoy
         4- fingertipdrag

    3 x 200 Pulling Free w/paddles and buoy
                       (breathing pattern 3/5/7/3 per 100)

WD-   200 choice

TY-     1,900 yards

I really really suck at fingertip drag drills and it become hard to hold my breath for 7 strokes but I can see how both of these can help me become a better swimmer.  I was pretty tired after this but then went home jumped on my bike and rode for an hour and 20 minutes (I watched the movie Daybreakers - not bad) .  I was supposed to go 5 minutes hard 5 minutes easy repeating over and over but eventually I just fell into a pattern and just dripped.  For the record I have multiple sensors on my bike and I record all my rides inside as "bike rides" and not "other workouts.

Today I was supposed to run and do the gym but only got the run in (my day off tomorrow will now have a gym workout).  I was slated to run 10 miles with a 9 min average for the first 5 miles and then go negative split on the second half.  Today it was about 44 degrees out which was nice but there were wind guts of 40-50 mph which made for a challenging run.  At times I felt I was standing still I was being buffeted so hard but when I hit the five mile point at exactly 45 minutes I got fired up and did run the negative split. 

My splits today were 8:41, 8:46, 8:55, 9:17, 9:19 (first 5 45:00), 8:29, 8:09, 8:22, 8:27, 8:14 (second half 41:37) ... total time 1:26:37

I have only run one competitive 10 mile race and did it in 1:34:24 ... I need to do another one sometime and see how I do in a race situation.