April 30

It's been a week since my last post.   I'm part way through the second week of Syd's Training Plan (STP).  The work I was doing previously is paying off.  I did a swim workout yesterday where the main set is 3x 500m at T-pace.  Previously, when I had done this workout I would get times at best around 8:00 and higher.  Yesterday my first 500 was at 7:40 and the next 2 were 7:45.  I believe it to be the weight training because I have not been in the pool alot in the past few weeks.  I had a cold last week that slowed me down and actually got out of the pool after warm up.  10k LSD yesterday felt good and today I had a run that ended up to be 8.5k that included 4x 3min sprints. All at or near 4'00" pace and 158 Ave HR.  No ill effects (read ITB is irritation free!)  Hope it continues.  I'm pretty religious about rolling it out at night.  Work finishes on Sat and I look to have 6 weeks without work.  eek.  It will give me plenty of time to train though.  Provided auditions don't get in the way.