Off to a good start this month.

I swam Monday afternoon. After my 600 yards of warm up, I swam 1,000 yards straight, at race pace. For me this means not going out too hard; I try to do it a 6 - 7 RPE. I thnk of the swim as just a warm up for the rest of the race. Finished up with a time of 18:22 for the 1,000 yards. Twenty minutes should be very doable for Sunday's race. I always worry about sighting and the other racers.

This morning ran intervals with Thom. After a 3/4 mile warm up run at a 9:40 pace, we did 5, 1/3 mile intervals with about .15 walk in between. Four of these I kept a pace of 7:30 - 7:50. I had one at an 8:02.

Definitely getting faster.

Veronica