Today was the winterlude long course swim meet. I was on deck for the 200IM, 100 free, 200 fly, 100 fly, 100 free in a relay then 800m where two of us signed up as 800IM since they are having an 800IM at provincial.
OK so the problem is yesterday I went for my first skate ski workout in 6 years. Some things seem to be behaving with my lumbar disc and I felt I would be able to do it....and I could.....before I knew it I wa cranking up and down hills and getting excited and doing the one skate technique (it's the skate ski equivalent of doing fly, you do it when going hard and it uses a ton of core). Anyways my brain was writing g skiing g cheques that my body would pay for today, but I have been waiting for this moment for 6 years and I was feeling like I can get back I to this (to put it in context 10 years ago I got the overall race win at the winterlude tri which is speedskate, skate ski, and run). So it was almost like not seeing my wife for 6 years and seeing her again finally.
Anyway, I know when I was sleeping that I would be sorrrrrrre...and I was.
I had no high end for the 200 IM and was 8 seconds slower than the last meet. Surprisingly the 100 free was OK and just 1 second slower than last month. Then the 200 fly I had a single heat of 100 free for rest. I was done at 50 meters and the piano came early. I swore I would be over 4 minutes but was surprised that it was 3:42.....that final 50m in the long course pool felt like I was running the last 6 miles of an Ironman marathon. It would never end.
Then a bit of a rest and the 100 free I a relay and then a 15 min break to regroup for the 800IM. It turns out the other guy scratched so I got all the lane judge guys lol. I was unsure how I was going to make it thru the 200 fly leg given how much like death the 200 fly was standalone. But with the longer rest between events and just going totally relaxed Iangel to do it all pretty easy. I am waiting for my splits but I just may have beaten my standalone time....I took the back easy and the 200 breast is like death for me and it just he got slower and slower. I THINK I went around 3:10 for the final 200 free and overall I paced it quite well for a 15:56 in he long course pool. I think I can do this in around 15:20 at Provincial in the short course pool, and with a taper and just 2 events per day. Overall it was a fun day to see what I could extract out of myself on a higher fatigue day. Like a C race tri, the only diff between A event and C event is length of taper, but the hammer fest feels just as hard.....you are just going slow!!
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