Tired

At about 4pm on Wednesday after dealing with a stressful client, I suddenly realized i was exhausted. I got home from Cuba on Saturday, rushed around and started in on some heavy training on Sunday and Monday and then crashed on Wednesday. I slept for 11 hours Wednesday night. Yesterday, the weather was still bad for any outdoor activity so I went to the UPEI gym and ran 40 laps of the track and then did some stretching and an ab workout. I had NO energy during the run and almost quit at about 32 laps. (This blog won't always be about how great my workouts were and how good I feel). Not sure what the problem was yesterday. This morning I tried one of my ironman swim program workouts. This is first one I have done this year and it was ok. I did 3000 m and it took a little over an hour. The only disturbing thing was that I realized that my stroke count lately has gone UP instead of down. When you swim as much as I do, it should not be going up; it should be going down as you get stronger and more powerful. I think its because I haven't been paying much attention to that and have been focusing on other things. As I have said before, I really enjoy swimming but in terms of triathlon, you can spend a lot of time in the pool and not make much or any gains in your race time. I have had some fast times in previous half ironmans when I had very poor technique. My swimming technique has improved a lot but my times haven't improved much at all. What I used to lack in technique, I made up for with fitness and just going for it.

I am still debating about whether to do the Mother's Day time trial tomorrow as part of my bike workout or just going biking for 3 hours and then doing a short run.