November 28, 2007

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
3.1 miles from school, 24:20. Measured via gmap-pedometer.com; I’ll have to wheel it. Everything feels good. An easy day in the pool goes a long way. I get the feeling I'm going to need a lot of easy days in the pool. I hope so.

I'm also hoping that within the next 5 weeks I'll be able to maintain a biomechanically efficient pace. For 15 or 20 minutes, at least. Things don't really smooth out til about 7 minute pace, and that's about race pace right now. For a two mile race. The plan is to maintain a fairly consistent training load and intensity while increasing the training pace until an efficient pace can be maintained for distance training. Ultimately, most distance training will be about 6:30 pace, plus or minus 15 seconds per mile. If everything goes right and I can actually manage to train for six consecutive months.

I'm up to 66.6 meq