Back to Doubles....

Monday Morning
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! It's 4:45am and there goes the ****ing alarm. Good God am I really getting up? Not really motivated to swim this morning but I know this is a normal feeling with having a week off....so naturally I pulled myself out of bed, got dressed, ate a little something and made my way to the pool.

Swim Set
200 warm up
4 x 50s fist/free, rest 15 seconds
10 x 25s, fast, rest 15 seconds
1 x 300; 20 breathing every 6 strokes; 20 seconds rest.
1 x 300;paddles; 20 seconds rest.
1 x 300; 20 breathing every 6 strokes; 20 seconds rest.
1 x 300;Buoy; 20 seconds rest.
1 x 300; 20 breathing every 6 strokes; 20 seconds rest.
1 x 300;paddles; 20 seconds rest.
1 x 300; 20 breathing every 6 strokes; 20 seconds rest.

Warm-down
25; 5 wall push ups
50; 5 wall push ups
50; 5 wall push ups
50; 5 wall push ups
50; 5 wall push ups
25; 5 wall push ups

Total 3000 yards.

Glad I went, feel pretty good.

Monday Part 2
Lunch time - 6 mile tempo run on treadmill

10 min - 9:40 easy warm up
5 min stretching
5 min - 9:30 easy pace
20 min tempo - 7:47 pace HR between 175-179 (ugh, this was tough...but I'm not sure why. My energy was present, no digestive issues and my legs didn't hurt....hmmmm...I think it was all mental.)
5 min - 9:30 easy pace
5 min - 8:00-8:30 moderate pace
5 min - 9:30 easy pace

6 miles total

I REALLY did not want to do run speed work today. My tummy has been bothering me all morning and my energy levels are low due to this weekend and the morning swim. Tomorrow is my scheduled recovery day and I figured that I had kind of grown on the idea of doing nothing last week. So I decided to toughen the **** up and do it anyway. That's what the real Kat would do, not the little B%^*# that has posesed me for the last 8 days. And in the end I'm happy I did. My tummy pain went away after the warm up mile, my legs felt light and quick and my energy was up there. As I'm hitting tempo it was a bit of a mind battle. 10 mins in and I was ready to give in, take it easy for 5 and hit it again for another 10 mins. I've never done a straight 20 tempo before, only time trials and this pace was only +27 sec per min of my time trail pace. I couldn't start something I hadn't done before and just give up so I stuck it out. I just kept telling myself that I could hold this pace and then some and well that's what happened. The mind is a beautiful thing.