{"id":4459,"date":"2016-05-25T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:20:11","slug":"wednesday-workout-recap-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/wednesday-workout-recap-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Workout Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4460\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pool_1464176866.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4460\" src=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pool_1464176866-300x225.png\" alt=\"OpenClipartVectors \/ Pixabay\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pool_1464176866-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pool_1464176866.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/OpenClipartVectors\/\">OpenClipartVectors<\/a> \/ Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week was definitely a swim focused week.\u00a0 The joys of taper, I guess.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s the area where I probably have spent the least amount of time.\u00a0 Some of it has to do with what I gain from improving the swim, I guess.\u00a0 Obviously, the race didn&#8217;t go well, but less water falling from the sky would be helpful.\u00a0 But in general, even if I manage to speed up my swim, how much time am I going to cut off?\u00a0 Five minutes?\u00a0 Ten if something magical happens and I get really fast?\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to be\u00a0 much easier to cut 5-10 minutes off of my bike time.\u00a0 But I&#8217;d still like to be strong in the swim.<\/p>\n<p>Monday &#8211; Rest Day<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday &#8211; Structured swim workout.\u00a0 This is the first one I&#8217;ve had in a while that wasn&#8217;t part of a physically coached swim.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday &#8211; Easy 30 minute bike<\/p>\n<p>Thursday &#8211; Team Fight swim, though I only did part of the workout, maybe 1500m.\u00a0 Wanted to save my body for Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Friday &#8211; Rest Day<\/p>\n<p>Saturday &#8211; RACE!<\/p>\n<p>Sunday &#8211; Rest.\u00a0 AKA cleaning the house.\u00a0 Which is still a complete disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was definitely a swim focused week.\u00a0 The joys of taper, I guess.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s the area where I probably have spent the least amount of time.\u00a0 Some of it has to do with what I gain from improving the swim, I guess.\u00a0 Obviously, the race didn&#8217;t go well, but less water falling from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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