Keeping it consistent
The HOT is an important race on my calendar, but overall, it is a "B" race for me. The Florida Challenge is the "A" race looming in the near future. After that, my next "A" race is the Jacksonville Marathon on December 17th.
In the past, I have taken the 2 weeks after the HOT as recovery/rest weeks. I can't afford to do that this year. So it was back in the pool yesterday morning for a long swim workout (3850 yards). The workout included:
200 swim
400 pull
400 kick
7 x 150 (swim 50 - kick 50 - swim 50)
100 swim
6x50 pull
3x100 pull
300 pull
300 swim
3 x 100 swim
4x50 swim
This morning, the schedule said 10 miles on the road. My legs weren't feeling that frisky. Swimming long soon after the race wasn't too hard, a little sore but manageable. Running long was going to be different. Mike McLamb and I went out and did 5.5 miles at an up-tempo pace. Good enough.
The plan for the rest of the week was to rest tomorrow, track workout on Thursday, swim long on Friday and do the group ride on Saturday. Ernesto is going to change those plans a bit. The track session has been moved to tomorrow (8x400 at 10k pace minus 60 seconds) so that means I'll be sleeping in (I hope) to the sounds of Ernesto as it blows by and dumps a bunch of rain on us.
Next week is vacation in Captiva. I'm going to take my bike in hopes of getting a couple of good bike rides in around the island. Add a couple of runs on the beach and a swim or two in the ocean, and I should stay on track for October 21.