Post-swim time-wasting!

Hmmm, off to a bleary start today - I should be out already on my bike, but fatally stopped for a bit of time online...

A vision of beauty has unfolded to me re: schedule for next couple weeks! Factors: priority of novel-revising, triathlon training; great time-wasting threat is internet, great schedule-busting threat is insomnia.

So:

CLING to jet-lag-induced early-morning rising for as long as possible!

Mon.-Thurs. schedule: get up at 6:30, dress in bike clothes (no shower, small breakfast); 7:00-8:20, work on novel revisions at local cafe (large cafe au lait); 8:30-9:30 lane swim; go home, eat quickly and get out again on bike ASAP i.e. by 9:50.

Key: Don't fire up the computer until late morning, having had one work session and two workouts already! Aim for solid second shift of mid-afternoon novel-revising and one more workout in early evening. Dinner by 7, bed by 10:30.

Long bike (Palisades) Friday afternoon. Long run as schedule permits. Trainer sessions in theory on Tues-Thurs. afternoons; Mon., Wed., Sat. or Sun. as the three run days. Rest days as suitable.

I have the NYC triathlon in less than three weeks - no time for a real taper. Have to go to Philadelphia this weekend, too. So this is really the schedule for the next 5 weeks or so, if I can keep the early AM component (will reshuffle if I must, but I like the swim-bike weekday morning bit with the proviso that it is more justifiable if I have done some work first).

I had a notion of what I would swim this morning, only in fact M. was watching and intervened with useful suggestions fairly early, so I swerved - it is striking that whenever I have a week or so without much swimming, my left arm reverts to the straight-arm style I learned as a kid, which is very ineffective in terms of catch and pull and necessitates drill work.

My three goals for the summer, swim-wise (but swimming is my lowest priority as far as triathlon goes - there is HUGE room for improvement, of course, but it is the least pressing thing right now): improve freestyle technique, endurance and speed for triathlon purposes; learn a solid and usable flip turn; improve my fly. Haven't been able to work on the second, though in some respects it's the most important, but that's my priority for this month. Had a lane to myself this morning, the swim session empties out as summer progresses.

Warmup: 200 free (FLIP TURNS), 100 breast, 200 free (ft)

4 x 100 drill-swim by 25 (finger-drag, thumbs/zipper, catch-up, fists)

100 "downhill swim" mental cue

Can't remember now exactly how the rest played out, but call it (with misc. bits of somersaulting/turn practicing betwixt and between):

200 free (ft)

2 x 100 free (ft)

100 back (for a mental break!)

2 x 100 free (ft)

200 free (ft)

1900 yards total

Now - gotta get out on that bike!