Yesterday, for the first time, I did two "events" in the same day. First, I swam 1300 yards. For the first time yet, I swam half a mile (or 875 yards) without stopping. Normally, my swim workouts are a mixture of laps on intervals and shorter sets such as swimming 200 yards four times with 20 second rests in between. I usually warm up with a 250 or 500 yard swim. Yesterday, I hopped right in and swam 875 yards before finishing the workout with some sets of 100's. It took me 13 minutes to swim half a mile. So now I have a pretty good idea of how I expect to perform on the big day.
After my swim I went on over to the trail and did a 10 mile ride on my bike. All went pretty well. My feet are still too sore to run but my blisters are making progress.
It was a day of a mini dual-Athlon but it was also an internal duel. It's just so hard to get going sometimes. There's other distractions I would much rather focus on. I need to learn not to feed the duel and use my training as time of internal peace and clarity. That's what I'll work on this week. Everything's a process, eah?
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