big bro's learn-to-sleep class

my anonymous older brother keeps telling me to sleep more, like him. he even gave me a demonstration when he came to visit. although it pains my ego, he has a good point. on wednesday, i did a 45 min easy ride on the trainer and then went to columbia swim. i thought i would have a lot more energy at swim than i did yesterday so was a little offended when Alpha Male said i was "a little off." for some reason i was last in line on the 1x1200, but i was motivated by her comment and was towards the front for the 8x100 free. i was happy to see my friend dawn who came back from watching her son as one of the announcers for the u.s. water polo team. next week is the last week of swim before a 2 week break, then new times will be tues, thurs and fri 6-7 a.m., so i need to figure out a revised training plan.

then wednesday night i only managed to sleep 5 hours (for some people, a.k.a A) that is a lot but i definitely learned that biking while tired is frustrating and slow. i think i can swim and run ok tired but when i was on the bike, my eyes thought i was still in bed. i had a hard time keeping the cadences up doing the 5x10 race w/ 5 min easy in between, and it didn't even feel like "race pace" so i did the last 25 min focusing only on cadence. since i felt a little guilty about not being able to finish the workout, i did a 20-min 10k pace brick followed by 10 min easy. it is fun not shuffling during the brick! btw the weather this week has been incredible.

last night i stayed over a girl friend's place that is super close to my work place, so i thought that i would get to sleep in a little bit more, but no such luck. since she had to be at work at 8 and we had breakfast at 7 (my bright idea), i was up again at 4, running around east village, across the williamsburg bridge and wandering around union square for about 1:45. i LOVE longer runs, they are so relaxing and it is nice to give your mind and body a break. i figure it's time to increase my weekly long-run times if i want to run philly in november. ideally, i would be superwoman (whom A reminds me that i am not) and could do the marathon training plan on top of my regular training.

next plan of action..nap time!