The best part of this week was my swimming. It’s odd to think that. I wanted to swim 600m each day and I managed to do that, even doing 650m one of the 4 days. A couple weeks ago when I was getting frustrated and not seeing any progress, I decided to create a spreadsheet to track how I was doing. The statistic of interest was to see how much rest I was taking for every 100m I swam. Here is what that looks like since I first started swimming 2 months ago:
I only logged swims that were done in a proper 25m pool so I can sure the distances are correct. As can be seen, my rest time per 100m swam has some down drastically. The goal is basically to get that down to zero.
For my swims, I can actually manage 100m without a rest at the start and then 1-2 75m swim sets and then I’m down to 50m at a time as I get tired. I can sense though that I’m getting close to 100m sets and if I can make that, it would go a long way to swimming 400-500m without stopping.
On the running side, I am still unable to run 3 days of 5 miles each, but I will keep trying.
Cycling was OK, but I didn’t get my long ride done today. I got a flat and had to spend 15 mins changing the tube and then by then I was just not mentally ready to ride for a couple more hours.
Goals for Next Week: I’m travelling this week so I wouldn’t be able to do proper measured swims, but I’ll aim for swimming time and work on doing 15 mins for each swim day. I will again shoot for running 5 miles 3 days a week. One of my cycling days will need to be on an indoor bike so I’m not hopeful, but I will aim to at least get in a 40-50 mile ride on the weekend