If every day was like yesterday...

... my training would last about a week.

Yesterday morning I had my second trainer session. We finished setting up a weight routine, which should last me about a month. I need to start doing it twice a week and I'm having trouble figuring out which days to stick it on.

I did my regular noon masters class, in which my trainer also swims. He was "joking" that he was working my upper body so that he could swim faster than me, but his evil plan didn't work. I was consistently much faster and he was eventually demoted down a lane after 45 minutes. Which begs the question, how did he swim 5 seconds faster than me at Oktoberfest? My only idea is that he was able to go way harder than I would want to in a triathlon because he's a guy with a better anaerobic threshold.

I ran with D3 in the evening again. The coach first said our workout would be 1 mile then 4 x 400, 3 times. Ok, so that is 6 miles of hard effort with a 1 mile warm up and a .75 mile cool down and with everything would have been 8 miles. I had a hard time wrapping my brain around that since my long run was only 9 miles. But after the second 4 x 400 the coach said that he realized he hadn't given more than a 4 mile work out before so we would only do 5. Plus it was getting dark. I ended up running the last mile in 8:24, which is pretty darn good for me. And we ended up at the parking lot so we didn't have to cool down .75 miles, so my total was only 6.85. I am fearful for next week.

I also am going to start the official running program next week. My trainer strongly suggested doing unstructured workouts this fall since so much of next year will be structured, but I can't see doing that. I *like* structure. He did warn me that getting injured will certainly put a damper on my season, so I do really need to watch that. I will be training for the November Panicking Poultry 5k (I need to go back and crush my, uh, 32:32 time from last year) and the Colder Boulder 5k in the first week of December. Then I'll have 6-8 weeks of unstructured training before the Iromman training begins.

This morning I went for a ride as it was a balmy 40 degs. Hey, it might SNOW tomorrow. This was more of a recovering ride and I wasn't expecting much but I kept wanted to stop and check if my brake was rubbing or my tire was low. Nope, not the bike, it was my legs that were flat. 18 miles was enough for today.

And in random kid updates, today was International Walk and Bike to school day. We had to nearly doubled our commute by walking around to the front of the school to sign in and pick up our prize - Clif Twisted Fruit.