US Open

Well i got a spot for the US open in a couple of weeks. I am happy with this because it is an invite only Pro field and i managed to get my self into the race with a rather big pro purse.

Prize Purse

Place
Male
Female
1
$60,000
$60,000
2
$25,000
$25,000
3
$15,000
$15,000
4
$7,000
$7,000
5
$6,000
$6,000
6
$4,000
$4,000
7
$3,000
$3,000
8
$2,500
$2,500
9
$1,500
$1,500
10
$1,000
$1,000
TOTAL Purse
$250,000

Anyways i am using this race as a prep race and it is non draftlegal and is looking like a wetsuit swim, so i am hoping to swim and ride with the leaders as long as i can. This race will give me a good chance to test my fitness leading in to World 70.3 Championships in Clearwater.

Training has been going well so far this week, i am looking forward to an easy week next week leading into Lifetime Fitness.

Training so far this week:

Monday was a swim with Fast and a tempo run in the afternoon talked about in my last post.

Tuesday- was a good hard swim with F.A.S.T mainset being 8x400m on 5:45 descending 1-4,4-8, i swam with the big boys for most of the workout, starting to feel better in the water, it got tough once the times started to get under 5mins long course. But good 6k workout.

afternoon was a 2.5 hour ride with 4x15min at race pace with 5ez and then some other tempo efforts. It was a good solid day but feeling a bit fatigued.

Wednesday- Track workout, building off the last two weeks of hard efforts it was a 17k workout, with a mainset of 2mile,200rest, 2mile 200rest, 1mile, with a big wu and cool down, so basically 5miles straight because 200recovery was over so fast. Legs didn't feel to snappy but kept it under 5:10per mile pace average all the way through so that is solid running on tired legs for myself.

pm-recovery legs 1.5 hours pretty slow and easy, legs needed a good spin and a stretch.

Thursday(today)- swim in a.m with fast.

Mainset was a solid pull set however fast pace times, and lots of hypoxic work, i thought i was going to blow a lung. one of the sets i was looking at the bottom of the pool because i am sure there was a lung down somewhere. big wu, and then

400 on 5:15 breathing 3, 200 on 2:45 breathing 7, 100on 125 breathing 13, 50 1 breath or no breaths. we did this set 3 through.

then a set of 100's.

Then we did a set of 16x50 with 1 on 1minute, 1 on 40seconds, not free. so doing breast longcourse or backstroke longcourse on 40 was challenging enough for me. Oh well TCU who was practicing after us, got to experience some of my IM work which is brutal to watch specially at the end of workout. Oh well it was 6k logged.

Tonight will be devoted to recovering a little before i start a big weekend of training, tomorrow i have a late flight into Canada for the thanksgiving weekend.

On the morning i have a fairly hard brick workout on a compu trainer doing some v02 max intervals, and then a big Saturday and Sunday in Canada.

I will log on my adventures soon.