Fewer but better swims

I have only be managing about 2 swims per week the last fews weeks but they have been better in terms of quality. I feel stronger and a bit faster. Today I did a warm of 400, alternating 100 swim, 100 back stroke. I did 400m of drills (one arm swim and kicking) and then did 40- 50's on a minute. That is the most I have done of that in a long time and I found it easy. My 50's were taking me about 45-48 seconds so I had plenty of rest. That is faster than I have been swimming. Who knows why. Maybe its the yoga I have been doing.

On Saturday past, I just did spinning and about an hour of weights, exercises and stretching (so two hours in total) I have been making an effort to make my spinning classes harder because that is what people seem to want. I realized (sort of ironically) that I think people didn't really like my spinning classes that much because they didn't find them hard enough. I say that's ironic because I think it is fair to say that I am a stronger cyclist than your average spin instructor. The reason my classes were two easy is that, for me, it is one workout out of about 10-12 per week, and I never felt the need to kill myself. But, I need to keep in mind that, for participants, this maybe one of 3 or 4 workouts per week and they want to feel it.

On sunday, I ran a slow steady 11 k and then went to the gym for about an hour workout. (total of 2 hours) Monday, I did hot yoga for 75 minutes.

Today, I swam for about an hour and will do spinning for an hour. Tomorrow, I think I am going to run instead of doing yoga. As much as I like it and need to do it, I don't think I can continue to do yoga three times per week and have any time for running.