Tired but Studly

So mood swings appear part of triathlon life. The last 30 hours have brought me from dispair to diety-like euphoria. I started Tuesday morning with a tough swim session. 200 yard warm up, 200 yards of drills, and then 4x100 ladders (25yards hard-75 easy, then 50 hard, 50 easy, 75 hard, 25 easy . . . . . .) then cool down. I felt slow, sluggish and basically, like whale who can't swim. I was flailing my arms, not gliding enough, and it showed. So I did it, but did not enjoy it.

Because I ran 10 miles on Sunday, I had to take Monday off. This meant I had to do my Monday workout on Tuesday, in addition to the regular Tuesday workout. So in addition to the swim in the AM, I hopped on my bike and trainer in the afternoon for 45 minutes of low intensity riding. That was a little better - hard to bike poorly, especially in a trainer -although drills on the bile are another story.

The this morning (Wednesday) I needef to do a 30 minute low intensity run. I put the leash on Markie (my trusty and wonderful but not great running partner of a dog) and off we went.


It turned out to be a good, run, markie did not stop at all and I felt pretty good. Then I realized in the last 30 hours I'd tone a triathlon!!! And I feel pretty good today not completely exhausted, etc. I just need to keep working at it and compress the time into a few hours instead of a few days. :)