The Workout: 30 minute swim @ MI
I'm still building in the swimming part of the sport. I don't feel I've gotten to a point where I can start adding other aspects to the workout without affecting my form in a negative way. Right now I'm really concentrating on form and my breathing.
Where I swim at Shawnee Mission Park, it's an open water swim where there are buoys that mark the course. I asked someone today about the distance and he said he had heard each lap was 250 yards. He said he thought it was closer to 225 though. I have nothing really to base a good guess. So, I just took the smaller of the two numbers and started plugging in my lap times and wanted to see where I stacked up against others times. (assuming of course that 225 is close.)
When I got home I looked up Ironman 70.3 splits and came upon this pretty cool site. For people who like numbers, you'll really like this link I'm about to share. I like numbers because there is no wiggle room, it's a goal and you either hit it or you don't. So, if I look at Pro Ironman 70.3 times and see that their doing the swim in 26 minutes, the ride in 2:20, and the run in 1:24 (these are all averages), then I know that I need to get close to that in order to get where I want to be. That's about a 24 mph average on the bike for 56 miles, and 6:24 miles for the 13.1 mile run at the end.
It just gives me something to work towards!
Here's the link :)
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