Thursday, May 23, 2013

Long sprints

Today I did two sets of the May strength routine and paddled for 60 minutes.

I paddled to the mouth of the harbor and upriver to the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, where I looped around and returned to the harbor.  Once back in the harbor, I commenced my workout for today: four sprints from the monorail bridge to the Hernando DeSoto Bridge.  This distance is somewhere around 500 meters--probably a little less, as I was doing these pieces as fast as 2:14 and I don't think I'm much better than a 2:20 guy in a true 500 meters.

In any case, it was some good mental preparation for my race at Little Rock next Saturday, where the last 1500 meters or so of the course, passing under four or five bridges, always seems to last forever.

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