I got into a good rhythm this week. (Starting out with a brand new perspective on swimming probably helped! Thank you Total Immersion!!) This week was 42% running (see stats at bottom), which also probably helped. And, I'm getting used to fitting in 3 different sports of training. Sunday - I attended a swim clinic. This was a key piece of my attitude transformation about swim. Read more about that here. After the Continue Reading

This week was an emotional roller coaster regarding swimming. (Surprise, surprise!) In the final 20 weeks of my Ironman training plan, there are 3 weeks dedicated mostly to one of the sports. This week was the mini version of the big swim that I have in the future. I started out the week on a swim high, let myself get pulled into doubts and concerns, and then yanked myself back out, got realistic with myself about Continue Reading

Week 33. Sunday through Tuesday went off without a hitch. Then, I got the sniffles and it degraded into a nasty pressure headache. Ugh! I really don't like that this is 2 weeks derailed by sick within 2 months. That worries me. Just trying to hold on to the idea that it's totally fine to be sick this far out from the race. Just trying not to let in anxiety about how run down I'll be later in this process and how that Continue Reading

4 swim sessions this week. Whew, was getting a little tired of the pool. I was feeling very little motivation to go through the full drill set that my instructor had laid out for me. (Catch-Up Drill shown here is NOT one of my favorites!) Not that I don't trust the value of drills - I do! Yet, when I get in the pool and I'm cold and I'm not really wanting to swim, the drills without much arm movement stress me out Continue Reading