Life Becomes Much Clearer With The Garmin
Morning Swim:
150 -> 100 swim / 50 breast
200 -> 150 swim / 50 kick
250 - > 150 swim / 100 pull
2X 500
2X 300
200 EZ
TOTAL: 2,400
Then off to the Mountain Vista High School track for the Saltin Fartlek:
10 Min warm up
6X - 3 min stride hard - 1 min recover
10 Min Cool down
Stride hard for me basically boiled down to roughly 7 minute miles at a 160 heart rate (90% of max)
Afternoon Bike on Trainer:
10 min warm up
4X w/ 5R
8 min aero @ 124-132 heart rate
cd 5 min
NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL A VACATION DAY!!!
Good news! - the medium/tall 2XU Men's Velocity 1 wetsuit fits. This is my first long sleeve wetsuit. I am not retiring the Jim Wright wetsuit but will certainly need the long for the chilly waters of Boise! The calendar year ended for me with a swim/bike brick at Greenwood. In balmy, 7 degree temps, I jumped into the heated pool and swam 3,000. A quick change and then it was upstairs to a fantastic spinning class where the instructor projected video footage of the 2010 Ironman onto the wall while blasting music. Very inspirational. This was like spinning to the computrainer. I was able to keep my heart rate in the 150 range for most of the class. Here are the HR results from the Garmin...
