Bad Luck

Day 18
Swimming
6 x 400 at a 2:15/lap pace


I was all geared up to ride my bike over to the track this morning, but when I got on it, the front tire was flat. Grrr....I hate that. All the reviews online said that it was a good bike for the money but to replace the tires and tubes immediately, because those suck. I guess I should've heeded their advice. At least it was at my house and not like 10 miles away or something.


Christina and I met at the high school at 6:30 am this morning only to find the track locked. That didn't start our morning off on a very good note. There were about 5 other people who didn't think that the track should've been locked at that time in the morning. Grrr....


So we ended up doing the laps in the parking lot--again. The parking lot sucks. It's uneven and it's hard and it was early. You know...the usual complaints. But we did it.


Lap 1: 2:04
Lap 2: 2:01
Lap 3: 2:04
Lap 4: 2:01
Lap 5: 2:02
Lap 6: 2:01


If nothing else, we're consistent.


I'm totally feeling Saturday's 5k in the back of my calves. Christina reports that she's feeling it in her quads. In any case, it was a little tough going this morning, but it felt good to be done with that part of the training.


Today was the first day of swim lessons. Our plan was to sit the kids on the bench in front of the two lanes they've reserved for lap swimming during open plunge hours and do our laps at Deseret Peak. This was a good idea in theory, but in actuality, turned out to be a little disasterous.


Josh, who I had to cajole and bribe to get in the water during his swim lesson, fought me grabbing him out of the play pool where he was totally loving it during play time. Then there were people who kept popping up in our lanes. I even got ran over by someone who I didn't see until she was right on top of me. It was frustrating to say the least. Finally, Josh and Landon left the rest of the group and went back to the other pool. That ended our laps at about 10 in.

We think it's the novelty of swimming for the first time of the season and hopefully, by Wednesday, the excitement will wear off and they'll sit there patiently and wait for us. It's nice swimming laps in an outdoor pool as opposed to an indoor stuffy pool. I wish they'd open a little earlier in the morning so I could do them there instead, but they don't open until 7 am.


Good news. There's only 7 weeks left. But that means there's only 6 weeks left until the tri and I'm starting to get nervous. Especially with the biking portion. And the swimming portion. Oh, and the running.