Beer and Blisters

What a wonderful day to be inside. All this snow and rain and sleet is making it very difficult to run outdoors. However, I may give it a try anyway tonight. What doesn't kill you right?

Gearing up for a Thanksgiving holiday 8 day weekend. Yes, 8 days. Monday-Wed. next week I will spend some time in the woods harvesting next seasons protein. That means I will be deer hunting. Good times. Although I need the meat it makes it tough to get any workouts in. After sitting in the cold for 4-5 hours I just don't feel like running. Getting up to the pool is impossible since I hunt in Columbiana county. That's why i hit the pool a little harder this week.

I put together some decent workouts that surely pass the time quickly. I noticed that I've become stagnant in the water and this greatly frustrates me. Just 2 months ago 1:02 repeats on a 1:15 was a good set of 100's. I'd be lucky to break 1:10 off the blocks right now. Utilizing the scientific method I have developed a hypothesis that is currently being tested...sort of. What has been the one big difference since September? The addition of mass quantities of beer, reduction of quality sleep, and convincing myself that I need to go long and slow. I think I drink too much, too late and barely squeeze out 2.5k . This has allowed a certain level of laziness to settle in. The following workouts aid in fixing that.

Warm up-4x250
10x50 on 45sec
800 on 10 min
2x 400 on 5:15
4x 200 on 3:00
8x100 on 1:30
400 kick

WU- 4x250
600 on 8:00
2x300 on 4:00
3x200 on 2:45
4x 150 on 2:15
6 x 100 on 1:30
8x100 kick/swim
200 wd 400 drill wd

See, not all that hard but, it seems to be getting me out of a rut. As for the beer. I think I'll worry about that in March.

The running is going ok. My 13 miles last Saturday sucked due to 4"of snow on the bike and hike. I've got a blister on each foot that will feel great during this weeks 14.5. oh well. There's always Christmas Ale.