Hard run and swim.

Well the goal was 15 mile run but I stopped at 13 as I was done and my HR was 150. I fairly happy with this as it shows progress.

After the run I started feeling tired. Dead tired. By dinner time Kathleen sent me to bed for a nap.

The swim went OK. After my 34 lengths on Friday my goal was 90 lengths today. I split it into 12 warm up, 66 main and 12 warm down. If nothing else it helps break it up. After 6 lengths I realized I was in trouble. I have been taking lessons on swimming recently and the conversion is to move away from your shoulders to using your core for power. My core is shot. So my stomach was sore again. I switched my plan to 90 at whatever it took. I slowed down and concentrated on the gliding and stroke management I had been taught without much power. So I did it! Hooray! It took me about 20 minutes longer than usual but I am happy.

The guy in the lane was shooting up and down the pool with a very cool MP3 player on. I was fairly jealous as I couldn't do anything but plod. However afterwards he brought up a conversation and congratulated me on my consistency! I think we probably got the same out of our workouts. He did a shorter distance with high heart rate. I was going for distance. Its interesting what other people observe - well sometimes, as long as its positive!

I'm worried about everything now but Ill re plan tomorrow and see how it looks. I need to research how long it takes to recover from strep (I finished the antibiotics today) as I can plan around how I normally feel but I'm a bit limited just now. Fingers crossed be the next long cycle I'm out of the woods.