Double Work Out

What a lovely day it was today - so I finished half an hour early from work to go on a run. So we decided to do the same as my first one - down to the village hall - walk around the field and run back again - see if we could beat our time.

We ran 1.73km with no stopping - so I'm really pleased with myself, well no I lie - we had a very quick stop to tie my shoelace up and at that point we decided we would go a different route. We got to 2km then did 1.5km cross country. I will show you the chart of the very steep hill we ran up - and yes I said ran - to the top of the steepest bit, walked the field (I died on the run up the hill but I did run up the hill yay) and then ran in the woods.

The light pink behind is the elevation, the black line is my speed and it's done on distance.

So I did a really hard run (for me) where I really struggled after running the hill, got home had an apple and then went out for a swim. Trialing a new app that is basically a counter that my husband clicks on every lap. Now the only error in this is when I had a slow lap and the phone went onto screen saver and also he couldn't see one end of the pool. So although not 100% accurate a lot more accurate than I did about 13 laps in 15mins. So here are my lap times:

Lap 1 0:43.4
Lap 2 0:45.7
Lap 3 1:6.4
Lap 4 0:55.7
Lap 5 0:50.6
Lap 6 1:4.
Lap 7 0:58.2
Lap 8 1:1.3
Lap 9 0:57.2
Lap 10 1:0.7
Lap 11 1:24.7
Lap 12 0:56.9
Lap 13 0:55.4
Lap 14 0:55.1
Lap 15 1:8.5
Lap 16 0:53.8

The longer ones are where I've had a rest but Alex can't see me. I am very pleased especially since this is the first time I've done two sporting activities so close together. My plan was to do 20 minutes of swimming however I learnt the art of eating - or I have now. Before going running at 1650 I had lunch at 1230 and a packet of raisins at 1600, then after the run I had an apple and then when swimming I had zero energy when I finished lap 16 (didn't know it was lap 16 at the time) said to myself I'l do 4 more went to go and felt really ill.

Once I got out of the pool I had to have some energy so ate a chocolate bar before going back home for tea. This shows me the importance of making sure I eat right before doing a lot of exercise - especially important for the triathlon as I will be doing the different sports in a row.

All in all a brilliant day and I can't wait to get out running again :D