Big week, Hurting now!

Well I had a great week of training, that ended with a Bang! Last week was my biggest volume swim week to date. Logged in 14,570 yards total (swam Mon-Fri everyday).

I had a broken 1650 TimeTrial in the pool, and the net time came out to 23:19. In theory on a good day, accurate course and swimming in a straight line 23;19 is what I should be able to swim now in a 1500meter swim (compared to 26-27 minutes last year)! factor in drafting and maybe I can go even faster....we'll see. The good news is I am actually enjoying swimming now. It is no longer something that I am doing just because I have to. I look forward to it every day!

Bike- I logged in about 150miles total. Had 4 hour ride on the trainer Saturday morning which was a pain in the ass (literally)!

I logged 38miles on the run, which included a 21-mile z2 long run yesterday (I was supposed to stop short at 18miles but felt really good). I ran with my buddy Matt, we completed it in 2:24:20 (so about a 6:52 pace), on the Sellwood-Steel bridge loop. I was in z2 the whole time and felt great. problem is i decided to run up to a water fountain at the end of the 21 miles and come to an abrubt stop. i thought it would be really cool to finish off the long run stopping right in front of the water fountain and raising my hands to the sky in Joy! Well it wasnt so cool...... since the concrete is very slippery, coming to a complete stop off of a sub 7minute pace....my legs flew out from underneath me and i slammed hard onto the ground. I bruised up my greater trochanter bone pretty bad, skinned up my left hand, bruised my left ankle and I just noticeda nice sized lump on my right elbow. What a way to end a 21-mile run! I hope I can recover in time for Saturday's race.......we'll see/

In total I put in 17hours and 54 minutes training......my biggest week ever.

i'm also really excited for my two training partners: Sal who is blowing me out of the water on the swim, he has IM Arizona in less than two weeks. And Matt who beats me up on the run 9and watches me beat myself up) who is running the Boston Marathon on april 21st.