Well, 15 days into the new training year, and I have my first setback. Sometime last week I think I slept on my shoulder funny, and it has been bothering me slightly since. It hadn’t affected my training until today, though. Although a little tired, my swim yesterday went just fine and [...]
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All of that swimming caught up with me a bit. After the short speed workout on Tuesday, I did aerobic swims on Wednesday and Thursday. I planned on doing 5×300 at 1500m pace on Friday, but I felt absolutely terrible. Normally if I do a straight swim, I average around 7:00-7:20 per 500. During the [...]
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Nationals were last Saturday, and although I didn’t finish terribly well place-wise, I accomplished the performance targets I was trying to achieve, and I was actually in a position to be competitive going into the run. Here’s how it played out:
Swim
It was an overcast day at Hagg Lake outside of Portland and in the upper [...]
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I’m sitting in my room at the Extended Stay Deluxe in Portland right now…well, actually it’s in Hillsboro, OR, but the race course is about 1:15 from the airport and only 30-45 minutes from where I’m at now. Despite waiting until the last minute, I got a really good deal on Hotwire for this [...]
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Nationals are only six days away. I’ll be flying out to Portland on a mid-day flight on Thursday. It’ll be really nice taking a non-stop flight to a race for a change! The men’s race starts at 2:15pm on Saturday at Henry Hagg Lake, and there will probably be quite a few [...]
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