#3m2d summer

I've put 70km on my new bike since I got it 2 weeks ago (not a lot by most people's standards but pretty good for me!). Got my first real cycling injury that tore a strip of skin off my arm so I've avoided the public pool. Also got stung by a wasp mid-ride on my way home from work today when it got caught under the top of my shoe. Is that why cyclists wear long socks? Because it feels like a compelling reason lol.

I also got a garmin as an early birthday present and set up a half marathon training plan! So far it's projecting a 3:30 time but I'm hoping by next June I'll be closer to 2-2.5 hours.

Warmup - 20 minute, one mile walk

Upper body -

Chest press 20lbs x20

Lat pulldown 50lbs x20

Shoulder press 20lbs x20

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My first 10k!!

Another swim PB!

My form always feels hit and miss like I can do a really strong couple hundred metres then my form goes to hell and I'm inhaling water for a few laps. Ended up in a weird flow state for the last hundred m or so where I lost track of which direction I was going but I felt like I was gliding through the water. Kinda trippy, very zen, stuffed a protein bar into my mouth so fast when I got out because I was HUNGRY lol

Longest run yet!

Decided to do a timed run and not worry about distance. My pace ended up being about 7'/km which is pretty sustainable and I could have gone longer if it wasn't Saturday movie night lol

Janine is oddly sweet sometimes. I am loving getting to know her better this season and the last. I really respect her more as a leader as time goes on. Glad to be in your camp DeLuca.

I broke 3 minutes/100m!!

Swimming felt really hard this morning and I wasn't expecting to hit 1500m, but I ended up doing my longest swim yet (by a single lap lol). I can go a couple hundred metres now before needing a breather which is wild compared to how I started.

Well I can't say as I'm excited for Janine to be this stressed out about details. Those binders are not something I think I'm going to read, Sam is right.

Also damn how long was i gone that so much changed we had time to make binders?

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Happy to see that my lap times were better. I didn't give up on those last 4 min as much. It was hot and muggy and I honestly stopped about 5 seconds short of KM4 not knowing.

Either way I managed my training runs 2 days in a row, and while yesterday I was able to slow jog thru the recovery sections today I had to walk some of them. But I managed thru the last 10 min. I don't know if I felt so much worse today bc I took 7 seconds off my average pace, or bc I ran yesterday, or if it was just that it did feel hotter and muggier out and that was making me miserable on our walk, too.