training,and of course falling on my a$$

So it's been an interesting week so far.  Monday I took the day off to recover from the weekend.  Tuesday was a big training day - started off at 6:15am with a swim, it was a tough one.  100 FAST (1:16)followed by 10x100 on 1:45 where I was able to hold 1:20's, then another 100 fast (1:14), followed by 6x 50 on 45 seconds.  Then - thanks to Kim, another 100 fast which I believe was about 1:18.  I was DONE at that point.  My arms had just about enough and my legs were already beat up from a couple consecutive weekends of racing.  I was pretty happy with my speed and surprised that the 1:20's felt tough but comfortable if that makes any sense!
Then I joined my C3 teammates for a tough speed work session in Caledon East on the rail trail.  So we started off with a 2.5k warmup, nice comfy easy pace.  Then on to drills - here was where it got interesting.  The person in front of me stopped suddenly and I literally tripped over his foot and ended up flat on my butt.  It was kinda funny and kind of embarrassing at the same time.  Got up and kept going - the 'main set' was 14 x 400 fast on 3:30.  Holy crap was that ever tough!  My legs were just about done by the time we finished, ok no in reality they were done by the time we hit the 4th repeat.  But I pushed as hard as I could and finished the workout.  Man is it ever tough when you are the slowest one out there and have people literally blowing by you.  Ah well - it is what it is, gotta keep working hard if I want to get faster.
On the walk back to the car after the run the skies opened up and poured rain.  Thankfully we were done but still ended up completely soaked.  I guess such is the life of a triathlete - training outside is great when the weather cooperates but sometimes it can totally suck.
Then yesterday I met Kim and we went for a fairly short 1:14 bike ride.  The weather held out until about the last 15 minutes when we got caught in a downpour.  Winds picked up, temps dropped… which ended up sucking quite a bit.  But still very happy to get out for a ride even if it wasn't a long one.
Today I'm actually heading out to the C3 brick workout - it'll be a first for me so fingers crossed it doesn't pour rain on us again… Legs are feeling a little heavy but I'm sure that is something I will have to get used to as the training ramps up.  August is only 3 months away - Ironman will be here before I know it and the thought of that is terrifying! EEK - but also super exciting!