thursdays are the same as tuesdays...i think i am starting to remember my training schedule...and soon that will all change...
up and off to barton springs sans coach to get in a 30 minute swim...at the pool i recognize a few other cap tex folks but not many names pop into my mind...chatting with robert i think...ask him if he wants to draft...not a taker...so off i go trying to get to the other side with out running into anyone...a duck buoy...or a wall...in the dark while swimming...my sighting is not great with what is close to me...i can get to the other side of the pool with out zigzagging but looking for other swimmers is not my strong point...so on the way down two head ons were barely avoided...and the swimming technique was not very good since i wasn't really paying attention to it...i decided i would work on my peeking skills for the rest of the swim...i feel like i got better but i think that is because the sun started to peek into the pool area...hmm...two laps down...and usually that is it for me but a cap tex-er ...jeff maybe...came in just behind me on the "last" one and asked if i wanted to draft...i was down...it is so very nice to draft behind a person who is bigger than you...the swimming is much easier...and you don't have to sight :) ...then it was my turn to lead on the way back...i did a good job! i was so happy...i have been trying to do the peek as i breathe on my right side...every five or six strokes...i think it's kind of like bad swimming form...6 good form one bad lifting the head while breathing...seems to work...
off to school...hard to grasp that there are two weeks left of classes...doing some thermodynamics stuff in class...yeah...confusing at times...i understand the general processes and steps...sometimes the details totally elude me...nutrition we went over the test...ended up with a 97 (she added an extra point because there were "a lot of people one point away from a B"???)...anyway...we are on to nutrition through the life cycles...
home for a few to do some dinner prep...made the barley salad that we made in AZ but substituted pine nuts in place of walnuts and arugula in place of parsley...wow! so good...
bike workout near southwest parkway in the travis country neighborhood...intervals...2m strong 5m recover...for 1h10m...19.48miles 16.9average...i totally thought it was going to pour on us...it didn't but the head wind on half the loop was intense...like i have been thinking....i need all the practice i can get in the wind...bring it on...
speaking of nothing...i keep having these vivid IMAZ dreams...i woke up in the middle of the night the other night having no idea where i was...having the feeling like i am in the middle of racing...and just snapped out of an inward looking moment to realize i am running...VERY vivid...strange...some are me racing some are me being a spectator...but i guess it's on the brain now and for the near future...
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