I arrived a few minutes late to our 9am swim, closer to 9:15 and split the lane with another swimmer who had already started the workout. It wasn't easy, but it wasn't brutal. My problem always seems to be that I cannot see the clock so workouts with a lot of time variations and MATH cause me some distress. I can see but I due to my goggles always fogging, I honestly cannot see the clock unless I remove my goggles. This proved problematic for Saturday's workout and I think Coach Russ wasn't super excited by my questions and lack of proper timing.
The workout started simply enough, but then was essentially descending 100s over and over.
I believe that I did the first interval at about 1:50 and then modified each following accordingly. There were a few times that my brain and my math skills left a little to be desired and when I would ask Russ, "do I go on the 1:45?" and he'd reply, "you were supposed to go on the 1:30" or whatever it was... After so many 100s my left shoulder was killing me and I was grateful he made a few suggestions for drills to correct the error and helped with the pain. (I was supposed to ice and compress and totally forgot...)
Anyway, I think in the end, after all my bloopers, I didn't swim about 400 yards of the total workout and overlapped into the 10am swimmers and just split the lane then with my own coach.
After swimming, I rushed to the cycle gym to pick up my bike (since I had forgotten to take it with me after riding on Thursday) and then went to my new gym nearby to shower, clean up and get ready to meet Michael for lunch at the massive North Avenue Whole Foods.
After that, we both went up north to Deerfield for a bike fitting. Greg took a ton of measurements and adjusted my bike more "aggressively" than casual rider- as it had been- and I felt good on it on Sunday. I'm still no convinced my seat is right since I'm constantly adjusting my bike shorts (??!!)@&&), but everything else felt good and I killed my threshold goals and power watts goals for the following day's ride.
Saturday night I was zonked and totally passed out!
The workout started simply enough, but then was essentially descending 100s over and over.
Anyway, I think in the end, after all my bloopers, I didn't swim about 400 yards of the total workout and overlapped into the 10am swimmers and just split the lane then with my own coach.
After that, we both went up north to Deerfield for a bike fitting. Greg took a ton of measurements and adjusted my bike more "aggressively" than casual rider- as it had been- and I felt good on it on Sunday. I'm still no convinced my seat is right since I'm constantly adjusting my bike shorts (??!!)@&&), but everything else felt good and I killed my threshold goals and power watts goals for the following day's ride.
Saturday night I was zonked and totally passed out!
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