now I've done it!

Well I just registered for the saguaro Lake 2000meter(1.2 mile) open water swim on may 2nd.
Mom and I are going to cruise down @ 6am and I'm sleeping in the back of the truck seeing as I work til 1 am the night before!!! Oh yeah!

My back is still giving me issues.
I'm just trying to take it easy.

So I went for a swim
no warm up-
2200 yards39'27"83-If I' m lucky I should be able to swim about the same time in the lake on saturday. cool down 25yards x 2 underwater.
I'll be swimming in the non-wetsuit category(water temp 65 degrees :))
Hopefully they will still let me swim in my speed skin suit.

a picture and a ride

I'm really trying to take it easy and rest my back.

So I went for a ride on the tt bike.
The same route as my long run last week.
14.79 miles-distance
17.5mph avg
30.6 max
50'44"-time

duh

Well my back is still bugging. I planned on just going home after work.
My buddy tom suggested we go on a hike...uh how bout a trail run...

We ended up sorta running Babat Duat.
Ran all the downhills. 50minutees out 30 minutes back.
5miles 1hr19min16sec.

Contemplating doing the Saguaro lake 2000 meter open water swim on the 2nd.

yet another

Splash and Dash #2
Well after 3 hours of sleep and working from 5am-1130am I sped home and got ready to go to tempe.
So I snuck a 2hr nap on the drive down.
We stopped @ Ikea and killed some time.

The race went well My back hurts bad!
The swim felt longer this time and the third swim buoy seemed placed much further this time. The swim felt better in general.
The transition time was smokin.
The run was good but my back was way off.
Almost 30 seconds faster this time total.
My splits were a little more accurate this time as well,(mom did em and shes used to doin em).




So the swim
750 meters-14'32"09
transition 1'12"05
run 2.5 miles18'04"50
total 33'48"
48 place! out of 200.

wise choice?

Well I have a splash and dash on thursday.
I still needed to get in my long run but was hesitant with only one recovery day between the splash and dash.....

Long run up pantano south to irvington east to houghton north to escalante east to old spanish trail past the park to the light that takes me back to houghton then to golflinks to pantano and home.
2hrs58min54sec
Lets see how fast I can recover...

big day easy workout

I was off work today.
Zane rolled over for the first time.
Then he kept trying to roll and roll.

Ok So I rode the tt bike up to Clements- ride time is round trip/
15min19sec-time
3.97 miles
15.7 mph avg.
26.7 max

swim
warm up
100free
100drills

8x25 rest equal to how long it takes to swim each 25yards.

Mom Poppy and Zane showed up and Zane got to go in the pool for the first time!!!
The one side of clements pool is zero depth entry,kinda like the beach so we could go in about 8 inches or a foot and let him sit.
Well I played with them for a while til it got cold then I put in 3x50? cool down.

A Bit

Well the back and spine are a BIT better.
Road the tt bike up to Clements and swam.

bike times are round trip-
time-13min18sec
3.62 miles, I reset my computer a little late.
16,4mph
23.6 max

swim
warm up
100 free
100 drills

100 x2 yards all out rest is equal to how long it takes to swim 100 yards.

1st-1min20 rest 1min20
2nd 1min30 rest 1min30
into
1000yards
19'12"13
cool down same as warm up

Trashed

My back is trashed.
3 days @ work of moving heavy ass shit without pallet jacks or forklifts... just a troylift.
I took 2 rest days in hopes my back will get better...
Sorta?***! AAARG

I had it; So I went out for speedwork. Good idea? bad idea?
Lakeside loop...Close to a p.r.18'47"36
Ate, took a break then got the tt bike on the rollers
15min06sec-time
5.14miles-distance
20.4mph-avg
30mph-max
pushing big gears/medium cadence
I still have some non narcotic skeletal muscle relaxers the docs prescribed just for my spine and neck (car accident a few years ago) and they are safe with my dis-ease(addiction).
They work and dont cause any euphoria or anything, I just dislike taking any sorta med.
Hopefully they allow my spine and back to scoot back in line!!!
OUCH!!!

quick

Before work ride-
tt bike-
time 36min19sec
distance-9.97 miles
16.5mph avg.
31.3 max

different

19'25"run up to clements
6'28" of rest, getting in the pool etc...
100 yard warm up- 1'33"
100 yards of drills 6'35"20
4x50yards all out
(rest equal to time it takes to swim 50 yards)
first one-36sec80hund swim-36sec51hund rest
second one- 39sec39hund swim-39sec70hund rest
third one- 41sec26hund swim-41sec rest
fourth one-42 sec swim
2min26sec rest

8oo yards
my splits
1-1'44"30
2-1'49"22
3-1'53"67
4-1'54"
5-2'00"32
6-2'08"69
7-1'52"91
8-1'48"58
rest-about 1 min.
cool down 1'54"-100 yards
cool down drills -100 yards- 4'36"93

out of the pool

2'33"32 transition time to run
run-19min43sec03
total time including rests
1hr26min03sec

liverwurst

The house smells like Liverwurst!


Left from bear canyon trailhead about 6pm and headed up the road to the end of sabino canyon road.
I wanted to get in a solid 2 hour run and I did.
I got a little bugged out on the way back down bear canyon road;I came across a big buck and a couple does laying in the grass. I couldn't tell they were deer. @ first all I could see was their eyes light up.
total time1hr58min57sec

brian brain

ok afterwork-road theTT bike up clements for a swim.
SWIM
100yard warm up
100 yard drill
8x25 yards all out- rest is equal to the time it takes to swim 25 yards.
Then into 1000 yards straight up
cool down 100 drill
100 free.

Into the bike- from Clements I rode the TT bike up to Sag east and then bike home
Total bike including to clements-
BIKE
16.69 miles
14.6 mph avg
29.9 max
1hr26 min
It was very windy, so windy in fact @ times I was reduced to 5mph, I could barely pedal!

MATH-
Ok so back @ home directly into 3hrs 30 minutes of Math problems in preparation for Mondays work stuff...

RUN
Then I headed out to run the lakeside loop22'38"20

afterwork semi-rest day

15'37" TT bike on the roller trainer, worked on tracking, getting into the aero position and stand up riding all while maintaining an avg speed of 16.8mph.

work

So after work, I went to run the long loop.
41'36"02. After that I took the tri bike on the rollers, had to adjust the rollers and kind of get used to the bike on them, after this I only got to ride for like 5 minutes then dinner was ready!

run

Went for a run.
A bit bored with the same routes and wanted to run a bit further so I came up with a new route out to some state trust land.
56'27"24

Maiden Voyage

Picked up my new TT/TRI bike today and took her on a ride out to collossal cave.
On the way out I was riding into a nasty head wind which turned into a side wind.
I was very close to calling for a ride.
34.16 miles
2hrs15minutes
avg about 15 mph
max spd 40mph

Bore doom

Took the ss for a ride after work 10 min on roller trainer then headed up to escalante.
11.92 mile total
45.59min total
max 30.2mph
avg15.6mph

nag

I've had a few nagging injuries, these were all prior to my race.
My neck/shoulder has some kind of strain or tear and my left achiles is very tight.

As much as I would have liked to swim today because my swim was so weak on thursday I opted not to and chose to do a recovery run instead.

Lakeside loop-start off walking run for 10 walk for 1 run for 10 walk for 1 run.
Even with all the walking I still did this in 24'42"14
Off to work.

dead

So tonight was the tempe town splash and dash.

750 meter swim
2.5 mile run


The swim was aweful the water was choppy and crowded and I felt like I was drowning it sucked bad.
The transition was a little slow in part because I could'nt get my shoes on.
The run felt good, I felt like I was hammering.

Time -
750 meter swim 14'01"44
transition 2'25"42
run 2.5 miles- 18'22"96 roughly 7and 1/2 minute miles
total time 34'09"82

I'll add pics later...maybe.