Pre Tri Week

So I am actually signed up for a Tri, so this week preparing for it.  I decide to work hard the first half of the week Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then Thursday, Friday and Saturday just easy sessions.

Monday:
Colleen needs to go to her storage shed to pick up some gear.  So I map out a 4 mile run to the shed to meet her there.  I decide to go out pretty fast.  I run 4.1 miles (about 6.6km) in 30 mins.  I was pretty happy with that, it was a fairly tough run.  Different sections of the run were straight into a stiff breeze, and I feel it affected me more mentally then actually slowing me down physically.

Tuesday:
Into the pool.  Do two quick laps in in under 40 seconds.  Then push out for the 100 laps, complete them in 38:35.  Which is pretty decent.  Then I finished up the rest of the mile and a half with a 4 lap IM.  I do breaststroke down, and backstroke back.  I then bust out perhaps the worst 25 yards of butterfly the pool has seen for a while and then cruise back with the freestyle.

Wednesday:
Out for a ride on the normal loop.  I do it at about 85% because I lack the desire to harder.  The ride is OK, my moving average is just under 20mph (32km/h).  The ride looks better than it might have otherwise as I get lucky at a lot of lights.  I am a bit disappointed about how quick it was without going as hard as possible, I sort of felt like maybe I should have tried harder and done a really good ride.

Thursday:
Start the second half of the week and into the "taper".  Out for a run with Colleen, just a quick 3 miles.  I do it at Colleen pace and we wrap it up right on 30 minutes, for 10 minute miles.  A nice little loosener to just keep active.

Friday:
Out for a ride with Colleen, and we really don't push any pace, about a third of the way through Colleen realizes we need to be somewhere soon.  So we turned around an got back with a little hustle.  It turns out to be only 14 miles and only with a 15mph moving average.  Not much of a ride compared to most of those I usually do - but enough.

Saturday:
I go to the lake where the tri will be held to firstly get used to swimming in the wetsuit, and secondly to get some experience swimming "open water".  The last (and only) time I did an open water swim I didn't do particularly well and I am starting to think about that poor attempt.  I get to the lake and it is all closed off, because of the tri tomorrow.  I think seriously about going in anyway but decide I don't want to get thrown out.

Go home and ride to the pool and do a quick half mile (800m), about half the length of the swim - not out of any specific planning, but because I got the pool hours wrong and they were closing and that was as much as I could do comfortably.  I finish up and ride home.  I think the week went pretty well, next up the first tri.