SUCCESS!....before the LAST big training weekend

I can't believe it but this is the last "throw the kitchen sink" at myself weekend. I can basically slaughter my legs as much as I want to this weekend because I will have 2 full weeks to recover. I am heading out for the third weekend in a row back up to the ADK, this time to Lake George for a ton of SBR. The plan is:

Saturday:

• Swim 1.15 miles (this is the triangle swim course in the cove on the lake)
• Bike 48 miles
• Run 6.2
• aka.....funky distance triathlon done @ HIM Intensity
  

Sunday:

• Swim 1.15 miles
• Run 6.2
• crawl underneath a rock
  

The point of Saturday is to do a test run of my HIM Pace across a swim bike and run, all done at shorter distances, but enough to make me hurt. Then the next two weeks will be drawing it down, but keeping the intensity up.

But before this happens, I need to tell about some success yesterday. Due to scheduling reasons, and the fact that my brain is runtarded, I went running midday.....87 degrees, 66% humidity @ 12:30PM. According to the heat index chart, it felt like 95 degrees, and it SUCKED!

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I carried a bottle of water with me and that helped, but just thinking and dwelling on the heat made it worse. So I learned that if I could get my mind to wander, that I would speed up a bit. Also, when the sun would hide behind a cloud, I felt stronger, but then when the sun came back out, it was like someone turned a heat lamp directly on me and I slowed. I held a 9:00 min pace exactly over 6 miles and it felt like a tempo run. It was brutal....

Then it was to the pool for successful swim #2 of the week. I did:
500 WU
2 x (4 x 25 EZ, 50 HARD)
2 x 100
6 x 200 (descending 1-3, 4-6)
3 x 100 CD, breathing to opposite side or bilateral
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2500 total

This was a great solid swim and I am back to a 1:30 pace on the 200's. Confidence booster! Panic mode has calmed way down and I hope to get in 2 OWS this weekend, wetsuit free.

Won't have the interwebs this weekend, so have a good one and I will catch up with ya on Monday! Happy training!