Catch Me If You Can

Relaxing day. BBQ at moms. Walked Dog.

Started off 11:15a.m. Swimming 3800yds.

Took kids to swim team practice at 4pm. Sometimes my coach is there swimming. I was upstairs and had a really good view of the pool, lanes were set up along the 50meter length. (Sometimes it's set short.) I was pretty astounded, his freestyle is absolutely beautiful. It's pretty. I need to video him swimming..haha. He has a near perfect freestyle..amazingly fast and effortless.

Didn't hit the bike till 7:15pm. Hit the warmup outside, then intervals (Hill simulation) on the trainer indoor, and again cooldown outside until it was too dark. 90 Minutes Bike. 

Stretched Legs 23minutes while watching a swim video of Karlyn Pipes-Neilson. She has in interesting crab/spider like freestyle. She is fast tho. :D

Later, My daughter walks in my bathroom and grabs my hand..."Woah!" "Wait here, I need to send a picture of this to Chelsea!" So she comes and takes a picture of my hand..haha. Young people think veins are just crazy I guess.

So she texted a picture of my hand to her friend. I wonder how many people will see this picture..haha. Ugh. 

Was a super gorgeous day!!! Coach had set a pretty slow run, and this bugs me so I am not telling pace..haha. But it was nearly 9 miles. The last 1.64 miles I went totally barefoot and just carried my shoes. Felt good.

Walked Blackie wearing flipflops..Best shoes ever. 1.3miles.

Jun's wife was sick yesterday so Bouldering was cancelled. That didn't get me down, I went and lifted Shoulders at the Gym instead. Oooh and was good and Stretched legs 24min.

Went longboarding with Fam after dinner. No falls today..haha. Have some old pictures you may enjoy! Over spring break things got wild:

Uh...tried for like 20 min to make this pix smaller but my computer is being bad..lol..Oh well. My knee would not stop bleeding for 5 hours. It was deep..haha. Just a few days ago in the pool I saw the scab was soggy and I had to pull it off and wrap it in paper. Gross I know, but it would have been grosser if I let it float away.

Back to spring break.......Dad was at work..what a bum!!! We had fun anyhow...

 Eliza is such a comedian...always making us laugh:

 Two days later we were out again...and OOPS:

Poor Eliza...She's quite the athlete, but fearless.

Yes that is a little glob of fat in there. They ended up snipping it off since it kept popping out through the stitches.

Blue Stitches...Were pretty! :)

Looks like we were having a jolly 'ol time! 

I'm so tired I don't even remember what I did this day....it's now Thursday eve...I do have a diary that has some brief notes in it...

10:30 Seems like same old same old..haha. 3750yd swim. This swim was good, felt some definite changes, felt powerful through the water, more horizontal. Faster. Less effort.

Took boys to Swim Team practice, and just stared at the highschool team swimming freestyle for 30minutes. Ok, not creepy like....I am always waiting up in the balcony anyhow, for my kids to finish swim...usually I am reading or looking at my kids swim. :P Anyhow, They all have similar qualities where they have a  rhythm and are powerful looking in the water. Even the girls with tiny wimpy looking arms have that same power thru their stroke. 

9pm Got to the gym for a TORTURE treadmill run. Wanted to be anywhere doing anything but that run. Lol. Got it done tho. 7 miles. 

Oh, one bad thing.... was so wired, I couldn't sleep till 2am. Late night workouts do that to me.

Was excited/nervous this a.m. Actually had adrenaline getting ready to go to my Coaches for a meeting. My adrenaline is over the top lately..haha. We talked about Races for 2 hours. This is going to be a wicked amazing year race wise. I will update later which races are in the works.

My next one of course is SGTRI Olympic Distance on May 15th. This will be my first open water swim...Will be practicing in the lake with Coaches athletes April 30th when we head down to watch Ironman St. George that weekend.

I took a short nap since I only had 5 hours sleep. Had a kick my glutes workout headed my way:

Drove out to West Mountain area, I needed miles of uninterrupted road.

Set 1: Reps: 6, Duration: 3min, Cadence: 95-105/-, RPE: 8, Intensity: 8, Notes: Rest 1:15 in between each, good efforts but not all out.

Set 2: Reps: 1, Duration: 15min, Cadence: 90-95/-, RPE: 5, Intensity: 5, Notes: Keep good cadence, but decrease intensity.

Set 3: Reps: 5, Distance: 3mi, Speed: 22-27/- mph, Cadence: 95-105/-, RPE: 9, Intensity: 9, Notes: Start by jumping up out of saddle for full power. Gauge these more by perceived exertion than HR. 1 mile active recovery.

38miles Bike 

I'm feeling really hammered right now. Lol. I'm not quite at 22-27mph, Getting there. I did this workout maybe 6 weeks ago...Today I killed it, had much more power. Progress! :)

Swim has been getting better all this week, but I feel I had a massive breakthrough today. Ok, so you are not impressed with my 350meter race time at Telos..I was very fatigued. That was an 8:12. Horrifically slow. At Icebreaker 4 weeks prior (Swim was first as traditional) I swam a 5:46 300meter. Well today, for example, I swam a 300yd (yes yards and meters are not the same) warmup, Warmup, yes warmup..lol..in 5:12. Effortless. The rest of the swim continued on this way.  All of my swim intervals I shaved off tons of time...Seconds are Centuries on swim. My mind and body made a connection with the water.

Swam 4000yds (2.272727273miles..lol), feels so different now. I could have swam 2000yds more, it felt so easy. This is freaking awesome. My bike is feeling it's at a breakthrough as well. I'm learning the Power in these two new ranges of motion.

Also got my wetsuit tonight (Yamamoto GIGA # 40 neoprene)...Squeeeee!

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Olympic Brick:

Coach instructed 30 miles bike at moderately hard effort, and a 30 min run. I'm not really sure what moderately hard effort is, should have asked..lol. Looking back I think I should have been faster on the bike..I'm not good at perceiving effort on the bike.

30miles Bike  1:39:14/18.3mph

Immediately following:

4.5 mile run 29:11 ...This was a strong effort, because I was in the mood..lol. 

This I planed a straight out down hill run (43ft. ascent, 325ft. decent), where my husband was to pick me up in 30min.

1st Mile 6:45

2nd Mile 7:00

3rd Mile 6:20

4th Mile 6:05

.5th Mile 3:00 

I picked up the pace mile 4 because I was worried I was slowing as the mile went flat. The last 1/2 mile I cranked it out on the flat, no decline at this point..I didn't realize my 4th mile was a 6:05, I thought it was a 7:05 and so I cranked that last half mile thinking, sheesh why did I run that last mile so slow. Haha. I am not good at numbers when focusing hard.

The funny thing..I know I am running hard when I lose the gum. Lost the gum finishing mile 3. Spit it out on BYU's grass..haha. I don't normally do that but there gets a point when you just want that annoying thing out. I usually spit my gum out before a race.

Might go lift weights or something...REMIND ME TO STRETCH. Haven't done in days. My hipflexors are turning into stone. Need to do core to. CORE CORE CORE CORE CORE MISSY!

Have a wicked sick weekend! :) 

UPDATE: Did Lift weights, Back and Rear Delts...No stretching tho.