Monday was the only day I trained for this whole week and wasn’t able to put in another bike or swim workout because of a busy week. Had a Bloomberg Seminar on Tues, Spanish lesson on Wed, Club Night on Thurs, dinner on Fri and SIG meeting on Sat.
Did the NYRR Coogan’s 5 k run on Sunday. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/155942333 The race was pretty hilly and my pace was around 6:11 min/mile but I had a hard time at the race, especially the last mile. As always, I started out too fast, still haven’t learned my mistake. I did the first mile in 5:54, the 2nd mile was 15 seconds slower than the first and the 3rd mile was 15 seconds slower than the second. I should have started out a little slower and maintained or picked up speed after the half way point.
My pic was up on NYRR website http://nyrr.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery966x522/public/gallery/2012/7165_resize.jpg
Went for a bike ride in the evening.
Had my first swimming lesson with Jack Rabbits in YMCA at 9pm. This was actually an intermediate swimming lesson and I struggled with it when we have to do laps.
The coach taught us to breath sideway, with one goggle in the water and not to bring our head high up when we breathe. Instead, he advised us to move our core when we breathe.
The other drill is to lie on our back straight on the ground, tuck in our stomach and chin up. After getting the feel, we did drills squeezing the kickboard between our legs. Every stroke we took, we tried to move our core, body and making sure the kickboard flip around as well.
I can breathe fine on my right side but not my left. My legs were cramped in the pool too, so after the workout, I felt a little pressured and stress about my swimming because the Ironman is only 5 months away.
I’ll need to ramp up my training and start getting ready.
