ouch, ouch and more ouch...

So you would think 2 day's post half marathon I'd be resting and recovering and taking it easy.  Sigh… I miss those day's.  Nope training for Ironman apparently means building on top of tough workouts/races.  So today I got up - went to the pool and hammered out a bunch of fast stuff.  It was
warm up
3x100 Fast
200 ez
2x150 50 fast, faster fastest by 50
100 ex
300 fast
warm down
Speed endurance is a painful workout to do… especially when your legs are still wrecked from a half marathon on the weekend.  Every time I pushed off the wall it hurt!!! But got the workout done and was actually moving fairly well given that my legs were toasted. So of course I rewarded myself with some awesome bacon and eggs - best post workout meal EVER!
Luckily I was also able to get a massage in today - it was pretty desperately needed so I'm glad that I got that done.  Legs felt a little better afterwards - but was a little worried as to how they would hold up at the speed workout.  Barrie basically said - forget easy - it's Ironman training you have to suck it up and work hard tonight lol… soooo off I went.  Tonights workout was I.think.I'm.going.to.puke.brutal.
Warm-up was fine nice easy run - but then 3k for time (16:04) followed by 4x1km avg 5:30 with a minute between repeats (thats about all I could manage) I was having a rough time tonight and seriously wanted to give up - but I pushed through - and managed to keep my pace pretty consistent.  It was a gorgeous day for a run - although could have done without the wind - that kind of sucked. It was so incredibly nice to run in capri's and a t-shirt.  I'm glad the weather seems to FINALLY be turning around.  It was 15 degrees today - thank goodness.  Hopefully the weather will stay nice - so far this year has really sucked as far as weather goes - seriously worst winter/spring ever!  But I'm so looking forward to enjoying the weather and getting out to run and ride as much as I can.  Today was a big night - it hurt, and it wasn't pretty but I got about 10k done and about 7k of that was hard… Now I think it's time to crash… sleep sounds so good!