I have decided to start posting to my blog even though my actual Iron training doesn't start until June 9th. My workouts for the last few weeks and for the next few months will be all about preparation for the real thing. What this means is re-acclimating my body to daily workouts and slowly adding volume - albeit all at "easy" intensity.
Last night my son's swim team had practice at the Y and so I took the opportunity to go and jump on the treadmill for a bit. I ended up running 5-miles in zone 2 (knocking on zone 3's door by the end). I kept my pace very slow (9:14) - comfortable as can be in my new Ghost 6's.
Today at lunch I snuck over to the Y and swam. It should be noted that with my shoulder injury preventing me from swimming the past 9-months, I am effectively starting swimming from scratch (or at least that is how it feels). My swim today consisted of 30x50's (1500 yards) with about a 10-second rest between sets.
I have two reasons for limiting the sets to only 50's right now. Number one, I want to maintain "good" swim form for the entire workout and getting that little 10-second break is enough that things don't go to pot too early. The second reason is because I am bound and determined to learn to comfortably breath to both sides. I feel that this is important for both the flexibility of being able to if required in a race, but more for the reason of wanting to balance my stroke out and hopefully prevent additional injury to my shoulder. The reality is, because I am not comfortable breathing both ways, I get out of breath and so 50-yards is where I need to be.
My first 10-50's I breathed to the left on the way down and right on the return. The second 10-50's I breathed every third stroke, alternating left and right (hard), and the last 10-50's I went back to the first method. Okay. You have to start somewhere. The line has been drawn. I have started:)
After the swim I ran a 3-mile "cool down" on the treadmill, again at an easy effort.
