Friday, April 25, 2008

RUN-BIKE-SWIM (not slackin' anymore!)

Wednesday was for running, and also got in some heat training. I ran from home towards Halaula, turned left on the old mill road, and headed all the way down an old track to the lighthouse, along the cliff trail for a bit, and turned around. Had to pause for a minute at the lighthouse to look for tropicbirds, then my 25 minutes low z4 began, which was no problem to reach as it was hot, almost no breeze, and uphill. Total run time 1:07, about 6 or so miles. Didn't overheat, but I definitely felt the heat affecting my performance.

Thursday AM ride was supposed to be 1:30 also with 25 minutes low z4. Not too much wind today, rode the regular route from home past Hawi and down the coast, turning around at about mm11. The wind of course picked up on the way back up the hill towards Hawi, making it take a little longer than I expected, total ride time 1:34, about 25 miles. I had a harder time keeping it in low z4 -- on the bike I tend to space out a bit and forget to push it when I'm going uphill -- how lame is that?!?

That's okay, I made up for it later with a pretty awesome swim. Pool reopens tomorrow but today we had to do the equivalent of a 'master's swim', so we went to Mahukona again. I ended up swimming for 51 minutes, with two different 10 minute intervals of higher intensity. Got somewhat choppy towards the end. Again, hard to say how long I swam, since I sure wasn't swimming in straight lines.... maybe 1.3 miles? Saw a bunch of amazing pyramid butterfly fish!

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