Improvements & Steel Spring Sprint

I have been working with Teresa for about 3ish months now.  

Getting a coach has been the Best. Decision.

I feel more confident in my training and I feel like each work out has a purpose to it. 

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At the first of the year, I hated swimming was hard!

I had no idea what I was doing.

My swimming workouts were simply back and forth in the lap pool.

Then Teresa came along with–

            ‘Main Sets, 100’s, Descending per 50, Pull, Kick, ON 1:05, 

Paddles, Catch-up Drill, Zoomers’… 

What was this new language??? 

So intimidated at first; but now, I am loving jumping in the pool.

I use to be a professional at windmill free-style swimming – :) After this time with T, I can not imagine how I was able to swim laps like that before.  Anyways here is my swimming progress over the past 3ish months:

THEN                      NOW

400’s in 8:20            400’s in 7:36

200’s in 3:44             200’s in 3:32

100’s in 1:55            100’s in 1:35

Still have a long way to go… but it is so nice to look back after a couple months and see improvements!
Whooo

Post-marathon recovery went great!  Took 3 days off running completely with light swimming only, then introduced easy jogging, and I am now back doing tempo runs.  My body feels stronger than before the race. I was telling Teresa how much easier my faster paced runs felt and she told me ‘Athletes gain a lot of fitness when racing.’ 

Double Whooo!! :)





Biking has also improved! A few weeks ago I took a 1.5 hr ride that I use to average 15-16mph at the beginning of the year... this time I was in the 17-18 range!!! I still have a little fear after getting hit I need to get over to really push my cycling to the next level!. 




Steel Spring Sprint Tri next weekend – This will be my 2^nd Triathlon.  I am SO excited to see the improvements since Olympic Lake Powell last fall. (Little nervous about racing in a lap pool though– hopefully I don’t swim into someone. Open water it is allowed to hit into someone… lap pool, no excuse to right??? :)

And a few hiking photos from 2 weekends ago... My dad asked me to go on a 'easy' hike. We got lost and easy turned into a challenging 17.77 (to be exact)