I was curious about the sprint triathlon I'm doing at the end of July. I worried that it was going to be a longer distance in the pool than I could readily complete in a reasonable amount of time. When I looked, it said 1/4 mile... well, that's only 400m! I can totally do that. :)
So, I felt inspired to swim (I was planning to anyway, but the inspiration helped). Hopped in the pool and decided to see how long it would take me to freestyle 400m. Instead of stopping ever 100m, I paused every 150 and I tried out a basic open turn at each turnaround. Twelve minutes later, I had swum 400m. Felt great! I proceeded to stick with the 150m rest cycles and swam 1200m in 35 minutes.
Then I changed into running gear, since I'm on a short speed schedule for my Nike+ app. The workout that I did was very strange (to me), as it was intervals based on distance, not time. I set up the treadmill, which I'm becoming much better at, and ran at 11'30" to warm up. The intervals were five sets of 5x30m at sprint pace followed by "a lap" at rest pace between sets. With warm up and cool down, I ended up running almost 4 miles in 40 minutes (continued cool down for another 5mins after turning off the app.)
The great thing about this run was that I was really sweating and the sprints made me feel powerful! I wasn't exhausted like I expected to be, but rather felt exhilarated. I could probably have kicked it up a notch, but I'm trying to stick to the training and not over do it.
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