Wed-Thurs-Fri suck run

My running has been sucking this week. Wednesday I was supposed to do roughly 25 minutes in Z4 but I just could not kick up my heart rate that high. I think the problem was that I swam long that morning, and didn't eat enough afterward. My heartrate just refused to rise into Z4 on the run no matter how hard I pushed.

Friday's run was problematic as well. I was trying to heat-train, so I ran at about 2PM. I found that for the first 40 minutes or so I could keep my heart rate in Z2 if I ran everything but the steepest uphills. However, on the return trip, I found my heart rate kept jumping over Z2 on even the mildest uphills. So I ended up walking a good deal of the hills on the way back.

Thursday morning's bike went well, if a little long (miscalculated how long it would take to return home). The swim went OK, but I didn't swim quite as far as I did on Wednesday (not too surprising).

Next week I want to time the swimming right so that I don't wreck my interval run, and hopefully this will carry through to my long slow run.