Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Week 5 begins
So after a very restful rest day I was feeling well rested and not sore for the first time in a long time. My resting heart rate is down in the upper-50's. Apparently your resting heart rate goes down as your level of fitness increases, so I suppose that having mine come down from 70ish to 57ish is a good sign.
Given how rested and not sore I was feeling today, I raised my goal for my swim. I wanted to finish up the easy swim workout and then see how much more I could do. As it turned out, I was able to do the easy swim workout exactly as specified and was then able to swim a 400M! The longest I had gone before was 250M. Not only that, but once I reached 400, I actually felt like I could keep going. In total I did over 1800M today which also marks the first time that I have gone further than the race distance. Now the challenge is that the race is in open water - which means that you can't see anything and you can't take rests at the side of the pool when you get tired.
Unfortunately for my training, but fortunately for me, I will be heading to Lake Tahoe this weekend for some snowboarding. Believe it or not, I will not be taking my heart monitor along with me, so no calorie report on snowboarding ;) It will be hard to get in as much exercise as the swim/bike, swim/run, and bike that I will be missing, but it has to be better than sitting on my ass all day.
Given how rested and not sore I was feeling today, I raised my goal for my swim. I wanted to finish up the easy swim workout and then see how much more I could do. As it turned out, I was able to do the easy swim workout exactly as specified and was then able to swim a 400M! The longest I had gone before was 250M. Not only that, but once I reached 400, I actually felt like I could keep going. In total I did over 1800M today which also marks the first time that I have gone further than the race distance. Now the challenge is that the race is in open water - which means that you can't see anything and you can't take rests at the side of the pool when you get tired.
Unfortunately for my training, but fortunately for me, I will be heading to Lake Tahoe this weekend for some snowboarding. Believe it or not, I will not be taking my heart monitor along with me, so no calorie report on snowboarding ;) It will be hard to get in as much exercise as the swim/bike, swim/run, and bike that I will be missing, but it has to be better than sitting on my ass all day.
// posted by Zack @ 8:32 PM 
