9.13 - 9.20 schedule

Sat 13
- swim 700m
First planned day and I already had to adjust. At the last minute I was keeping Fox overnight, so I couldn't go to the gym to swim. Instead I rode the exercise bike for 45 minutes at home.

Sun 14
- bike then run
I started out planning to do the 4 mile bike loop and then a 2 mile run. As I was coming up at where the 2 mile run would turnaround (while on the bike) I thought that would be a bit much since I was pretty tired already. So I did 4 miles on the bike (took 17 minutes), took 1.5 minutes to get back out to start running, then ran/walked 1 mile (to Manor and back). Took 31.5 minutes total, so the mile walk(mostly) took me 13 minutes.

Mon 15 (my 2^5 birthday!)
- run 2 mi
Changed my mind on my Monday workouts, I need running more than biking, so just going to run each Monday morning. I ran the 2 mile loop today, took me just over 20 minutes. I went a little different way, up Matterhorn and down Swiss because I think going down Fanning and up Linda Vista is what keeps killing my momentum. Either that helped, or it just helped that I didn't bike before it, because I managed to run for the first 6 minutes without stopping. I was at the mile point after 9 minutes, so slowed down (had to walk more) towards the end.

Wed 17
- swim 700m
Ended up swimming 1000m this time. It took me 24 minutes to get to 700m, then was 34 to get to 1000. My wind is still more of a problem than my muscles, but toward the end my arms were starting to feel it. I think I will bump up my planned swim distances based on this. Would be good to be doing 2000m at a time before the race. (maybe that's pushing it, but I'll bump them up some at least)


Thu 18
- bike 6 mi
I went and played some tennis this morning. After that I was still debating whether to do the bike ride too. I've been reading stuff about training / recovery / aerobic vs. anaerobic... and I'm all mixed up on what to do now. I'm thinking I'm going to change my schedule a bit to add more recovery days (so I actually get stronger rather than just burnt out), and I think I will swap some workouts for long walks to burn fat. I need to get more wind, but would also be very helpful to lose some weight. This morning I weigh 221.2, and I'd like to be at least below 215 for the race (but stronger and better wind), below that would be even better.
I'm thinking maybe I should schedule like this: day1: long walking day2: hard exercise day3: recover. Going to try this anyway, see what happens.

Fri 19
- Recovery (was run 2 mi)
Took my recovery day... I feel super strong already.

Sat 20
- Lots of walking (was swim 1000m)
Walked 4 miles, down to Cedar and West and back. Took me 1:12 to do it, and I was able to breathe fine the whole way, so I think it was a good walking workout.