Swoon Style and Home: IMLP Training Recap: Week 18

This week my workouts had something in common with that iconic 1980s sitcom "The Facts of Life"

God I loved this show.

Specifically the theme song:

you take the good, you take the bad

you take them both and there you have

the facts of life, the facts of life.

there's a time you've got to go
and show you're growin' now you know about
the facts of life, the facts of life

Just like the song, I took the good (Wednesday-Saturday-Sunday) and I took the bad (Thursday-boo). That's to be expected though. And it's so funny how one good run (like I had on Saturday) can instantly make up for all of the prior bad runs. This week was a milestone week because I hit 5000 yards of swimming! Things are ok. Just humming along. I feel a bit like a hamster on a wheel at this point. But I have a half marathon on Sunday (for which I feel very unprepared) and Spring is (finally) in the air!

Week 18:

Swam: 1:46 hours (5,050 yards)

Biked: 3:36 hours (all on trainer - watch says 52.10 miles)

Ran: 2:43 hours (18.19 miles)

Workouts:

Monday - swim

Tuesday - bike with LT & shake out run

Wednesday - long swim

Thursday - long run with tempo

Friday - easy brick

Saturday - easy run

Sunday - long bike with tempo

Monday - I woke up absolutely, positively exhausted. I was fully prepared to go to the pool for a 5:30 am swim but I simply did not feel well. I listened to my body and went back up to bed, where I slept another couple of hours. It was a wise decision. I did the swim after work instead and it was a good one.

Tuesday was a bike with some hard fast intervals and then a 2 mile "shake out" run after. This was pretty good - nothing crazy.

Wednesday I had another long swim with those 500 intervals. I actually like them! I felt like I was in the pool forever. Because I was.

Thursday. UGH. OK. Thursday's run was just not good and it was my own fault. It was one I've done before: 30 minutes endurance pace, 30 minutes tempo pace, 15 minutes endurance pace. It was just over 8 miles. I ate my normal long run breakfast: oatmeal with brown sugar. Only ... I ate it at 5:30 am and started my run at 7:30. By the time I started my run, I was hungry. I am not sure what I was thinking. I can push through a 3 miler hungry. But an 8 miler? No. It was just a rough ride and I was glad it was done. I could not hit some of my faster paces, which of course demoralized me, which of course made the run even worse.

Friday was an easy brick. I like the easy bricks. 40 minutes endurance pace on bike; 20 minutes endurance pace on run. Here I am after giving my (fake, horizontal smile) thumbs up:

Saturday's run was really so good. So good! I was visiting my parents with the kids so I could run in my hometown. It was a 50 minute run at endurance pace, though I felt so good (and it was like 62 degrees out) that I ran 8:40 pace and it felt effortless. My head was in it, I had properly fueled and it was just one of those magical runs where literally everything is in sync. By the end of that run I was like Thursday what? Bad run what?

Sunday was a looooong 2 hour ride on the trainer with a mix of tempo and endurance paces. It was a pretty good workout and I felt good during and after. I wore my new tri shorts by Coeur sports (full review coming soon) and I loved them. Here I am after. My iPhone is taking pretty bad pictures lately.