Suckah For Pain

Yep. I made a blog. Since it's mostly going to be cross training it's probably not gonna be that interesting, but after I start hitting some fast times, maybe that'll change.

1 hour and 15 minute stationary bike ride. The music today was too lit for a recovery ride so I pushed it a lil more than I probably should have. I don't know the name of the song, but the song that says, "Turn that pain into power" and Hall of Fame were played almost back to back. Soooooooooooo not my fault. :)

Recovery Workout

5 min medium

1 min sprint

5 min easy

Stationary bikes today. 1 hour and 5 minutes. I wasn't as mentally strong today as I usually am. Got inside my head too much. I started to think about the possibility that my hard work might not even pay off. It was discouraging, but I pulled out of it in time to grind extra hard on 1:00's. 

Speed workout: 

3 x 3:30

4 x 2:15

6 x 1:00

... all at two mile effort and with 90 seconds rest inbetween everything.

I was planning on swimming tonight too, but I lifted instead.

Squats: 12, 10, 8-- 130, 140, 150

Lunges: 15 on each leg x 3-- 30 lbs

lift overs: 90 sec x 3

Single leg dead lifts: 15 reps x 3 -- 25 lbs

10 minutes of abs

1 hour and 30 minutes in the pool. the first hour and 20 was aqua jogging, and the last ten was just a 500 freestyle cooldown. Wanted a long workout today to build some capilaries.

10 min warm-up

1 min medium

30 sec easy

1 min 30 sec medium

30 sec easy

2 min medium

.... All the way up to 5:30 and back down

11 minute cooldown

Mentally I was pretty focused and I actually had a little bit of fun today. It sounds weird but I just visualized that I was actually out on the roads running with the squad. It felt pretty similar besides the impact. Shoutout to the guy in the lane next to me that splashed a ton with his left arm when he swam.