yuck

It was a toss up to swim or run before work.
Since I really haven't been running much because it agitates my back; I decided to try a short slow run up to lakeside.

26'34"00 with 3 short walk breaks.

my poor back

Lower back still thrashed.

Did'nt get home until almost 6p.m.

We hurried up to Clements and I put in some laps.

100 warm up

25x2-rest equal to how long it takes to swim 25.
50x2? rest equal to how long it takes to swim 50
100 same as above
Repeat above

200 cool down.

oops

So I woke up @ 5am and headed out to Mt. wrightson.
I had planned on meeting t.t.r and running a couple up and downs.

So I arrived plenty early about 6:40 am and got all my stuff ready.

7am and still no one showed...Huh maybe everyone opted for the 6am start.

Whatever- so 7:05am I headed up Old baldy by myself; Walking mostly and running the flats.
Well after about an hour I started to wonder....Well I summited Mt Wrightson in about 2 hrs.
Still nobody but hikers.
Ok whatever so I headed back down running the whole way.
Round trip 3'46"41.
Well that was plenty of a run for me. I planned on doing 2 trips but not without others suffering along side me. I only did one trip up and back.
I headed home.
So I checked the ttr schedule and for whatever reason they decided to hold the run on saturday.
It was scheduled for Saturday, I just figured it would be on sunday like all the other runs...
HAHAHAHAHA.
I have some family stuff to do so it all worked out o.k.

bazillion degrees

It was hot we went to the pool.
Zane and Poppy floated around a bit.
Splashed.
I did a quick tempo workout-
100 drill warm up
100 free

25x2 rest=to how long 25 yards takes
50x2 rest-to how long 50 takes
100
drills
25x2" "
50x2" "
100
more drills

strange

Went to reid park afterwork-
100 swim warm up-
into 1300?yards 22?min
afterwards-
ran around the park-22'41"64

fish on

Went to Clements w/the family. Zane had a good time again.
We played and played then mom and I did laps.
So- warm-up 100 yards.
then 500 yards .

Worked with mom on her stroke technique.

Then 8x25 w/rests = to how long each 25 yards takes.
Then cool down 50x4 cool down.

My lower back is still sore.

p.s. almost forgot rode to and from pool-
16'40-roundtrip
3.94 miles r.t.
14.1 mph avg.
24.8 max

Like to swim? Alot?

For crap sakes....
So got off work @ 1am friday night got home slept til 530am.
Up, mom was running late, I got all set to crash out in the back of th truck.

Well we got a bit turned around on the way ouT to saguaro lake but got there in time.

There were some weird logistic errrrrORS and apparently we needed a park pass but said pass is Not available @ park Kiosk only available 10 miles down road, so we hiked it in and found some road side parking.
Then hitched in with some other racers!!!
I swam in the non-wetsuit 2000meter(1.2 mile) division.
The swim was great but man that was a long long swim.
We were the last heat to go and the other heats were about 5-15 minutes ahead of us.
I ended up catching up to the 2000m wetsuits.
Very choppy,windy, lots of drift and current.

The finish time was a little weird and mom couldnt see me finish, she was running my split.
So the race has me finish 9 out of 16? in my division.
But the top 3-9 finished very close and as I was already done I was yet again asked for my time so I think 41'50 is a little off.

Its possible, my average is 40 minutes flat for 2000 meters.

ALOT OF FUN.
COOL SCHWAG.
T-SHIRT,WATER BOTTLE ,BAG.

I may do the 4000m division next time!!!!