Arrived in Belvedere College at 6.55am for the masters swim session. Small warm up and into the lactate threshold set, which is on every Wednesday. Like the previous week, this session is pure speed with good rest intervals. Total distance covered was 1600m, and of that set 700m was 'speed swimming'.
Just getting back into the routine of swimming consistently. Not as bad as I thought. Irrespective of how much training I do in the pool my ironman time will always be in the region of 1hrs 3 mins to 1hrs 12 mins, as technique is my limiter. Should work on this area but don't have patience to spend hours in the pool doing technique. Got to at least enjoy what you do - it is a hobby after all.
Missed Swords CC race in Oldtown as had to attend kids school agm. Again bad conditions abounded for this race so not overly unhappy about having to miss it. However nothing gets the HR working like a bike race. I must commit to doing these more regularly.
Got out for a 30 min run before the school meeting. Conditions bad again. Very windy in North Dublin for last few weeks. The run was a tempo run with with 10 mins easy, 15 mins tempo and 5 mins cooldown. Not running very fast at moment and average HR was high 140s for the 15 min tempo section. Tired so didn't (or couldn't) increase HR. Ideally tempo section should be building to low 160s for a small part of run.
Have done speed sessions for run, bike and swim so far this week and glad to have them behind me. Ideally shouldn't be doing them without a days rest between each speed session but have to work around work, life etc.
Total training time: 1hrs 15 mins
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