Double Workout

So today was the first day of a Tri-Swim class I am taking at the YMCA. Max is my coach and also my daughter's swim team coach. Max and I swam on a relay together at Nationals earlier this summer and he is a 3x Ironman finisher. I had take a class from him over the winter on Sundays and learned a lot, so a 2x/week class early in the morning seemed like a good idea.

Although I consider myself a morning person, I am NOT a morning exercise person. I prefer to do my exercise at the end of my day in the evening. So I can't actually remember a time that I exercised right after getting up.

So the class was at 615am which means I had to wake up at 530, throw on some clothes (laid out the night before) grab my bag (laid out the night before) some caffeine and head downtown to the Y. I got there in plenty of time and got down to the pool.

5 of us in the class, all about the same age, 3 women, 2 men. We were all about the same ability level too. Made for a fun class. With a 650 yard warmup out of the way, we did some technique work and then some speed work. 1350 yards after the warmup, a nice even 2000 yard hour long workout. Felt good.

It was a rare fall day in Duluth today with a temp over 80 degrees. I wasn't going to ride my bike today, but you just can't pass up taking advantage of this weather. Soon it will be too cold to bike. So I grabbed my bike right after work and did a 13 mile out and back on the same road. New speed record with average speed over 15mph! Very exciting and felt real good too.

So my first double workout in a really long time (since I don't do mornings I can't remember when I last did it). I felt pretty energized after my bike, sore but energized, but now it is all coming crashing down and I am headed to bed.