Saturday June 9th - Long Run and Short Swim

Today I begin my marathon run training. The Saturday run group is doing 11 miles, but since I just got back from Europe and haven't run since February, 11 would just be insane. I have chosen to run anywhere between 6 and 8 miles. Still probably too much, but oh well.

I ended up doing 8 miles. JC and I turned around at mile 4 and headed back. It felt solid and I think the group was keeping 10:15 or 10:20 mile pacing. That felt good to me. After mile 2 I was in the zone, chatting away, loving the run. But when mile 4 came about, I knew it was time to turn around. I could keep on going, but no need to rush it. I probably should have turned around at 3.

JC and I finished the run going up a bunch of stairs. Good and Bad. Good for working out. Bad for Brian out of shape.

I then went off to swim practice. I'm going to have to stop going on Saturdays since the mileage will get larger and large and practice begins at 9:30.

Here was the workout:
500 w/u
12 X 25s drill
3 X 400s - #1 - free, #2 - IM, #3 - free
100 cool down
Total 2,100 yards

The workout was actually longer, but I stopped where I did since I had just done the run earlier and didn't want to go on overload. My first 400 was around 4:50 which was ok for just getting back into the water. The 400 IM was 5:10, which wasn't too bad. The last 400 was 4:39. These times were ok for my condition, as I didn't go crazy fast and just sort of enjoyed the workout.