A Week In The Life - Wednesday

Normally Wednesday's are one of my hardest training days of the week as they include both my long swim and a brick workout. This week, with my modified schedule, my brick workout was moved to Saturday and replaced with a running speed workout. This made for another light training day, which was okay with me.

This morning I was out of bed and headed to the pool around 5:20. It wasn't busy at all, so I was able to easily get a lane to myself. Unlike my training runs, my swimming has been outstanding lately. This week I set a new distance PR by swimming 2,000 yards (40 laps in the 25 yard pool) and felt great afterward. It took me 49 minutes, which is a 2:27 min/100 yard average. That is OUTSTANDING for me.

All smiles leaving the pool and heading to work

My meals and snacks today included the following:

• Breakfast
• Maple and Brown Sugar Oatmeal
• Banana
• Snack
• almonds, cashews, and peanuts
• Lunch
• Cheese burger
• Fresh green beans
• Orange (the one I didn't get to eat yesterday!)
• Sun Chips

With Erin leaving for the evening, I wanted to squeeze in my run between work and swim lessons so when I got home from work I got changed into my running clothes quickly and headed to the basement. If you have read my blogs before, you know that I am not a fan of running on the treadmill. However, with temperatures in the mid 90s and facing an interval workout, I opted for the treadmill anyways. My workout consisted of 8 1/4 mile intervals at 5k race pace with a 1/10 mile walk for recovery in between.

Quick workout on the treadmill complete

After cooling down, it was time to get the girls ready and head out the door to swim lessons. With my workouts for the day in the rear view mirror, I was able to have a relaxed evening at home again. While the girls ate supper, I worked on prepping my supper to eat later as well as getting my meals ready for tomorrow. Supper was leftover spaghetti, lettuce and spinach salad with hard boiled egg, cheese, and honey mustard dressing, bread stick and an apple. I allowed myself to enjoy a slice of zucchini bread (made by Erin today) for dessert. 

I'm going to bed tonight knowing that tomorrow is yet another day to improve.