Remember when....

I remember running in track meets and feeling like my legs could not keep up with my body. It's been a LONG time since I've felt that way. Monday night I headed back to fat girl park (there were no fat girls this time) to do timed 1/2 miles again. It felt so great to have some speed again. I am so used to running just to run and running long distance speed, I thought I forgot how to run fast. I had side cramps, troubles breathing and was sweating more than I've sweat in a long time.....and I loved it! Total run was over 6 miles with the warm up and cool down. What a great feeling.

Today I swam. After getting to the pool only to realize that Evan had the bike lock, I biked back home and then back to the pool again. So, I biked an extra 4 blocks! I did 1500M again, but this time had more of a structure to my work out. I did 100M warm up 100M Kicks, 100M swim (I thought this meant arms only but this didn't work well for me) as suggested by a work out I found. Then a 200M swim. After this 500 M warm up, I did 8x 50's then 10x 25's. Finished with a 550M swim. OK so I just realized this is acutaly 1650 M. I over shot it a bit I guess because I was only supposed to do 1500 M. I have goals now for speed and that's what I'm going to focus on. I'll stay at this distance for a while and work on getting faster. I have no desire to swim more than 1 mile.

Tomorrow they are calling for 90+ degree weather. I'm not ready for that yet. Maybe I'll take the say off to bottle the beer.....I think I could use a day off. :)