New Year, New Training, New Goals

New year, new training, new goals.

I need to get serious about improving my time in the water and running. I've put together a new running training schedule thanks to runnersworld.com - it lets you enter in a previous timed event (5k, 10k, etc), a training duration, and it "automagically" creates a running schedule that (if followed) should improve speed. My schedule is 3 days a week: 1 easy day (2 miles @ 10m/mile), 1 training day (speed training or tempo), and a day with a long tempo run (~10m/mile or so), increasing mileage weekly. I'm hoping it will shave a few minutes from my 5k time; I did 5 miles tempo tonight in about 47:30 (@ 9:30m/miles) which wasn't too bad.

In the water I've improved steadily. Our Masters group has finished all of the checkoff challenges through the breast stroke (which I'm pretty much horrible at), with only the freestyle swims left. I put in an awesome time (for me) in the 100 Fly @ 1:33, and a pretty decent 100 IM @ 1:34. I wanna re-time my 200 IM - last time I swam it I was well over the 4-minute mark. I'm consistently hitting the 1:45 to 1:50 mark on my workout 100y lengths, and I can easily do 400y now in under 7 minutes. Would love to get that down under 6, but considering it took me almost 12 minutes less than 5 months ago, I'm doing OK.