Let The Base Building Begin....

I've been in the pool a few times over the past week, and although the first day was a struggle, I'm finally starting to find my groove again. I'm getting excited about getting into the actual training for the Half and Full Ironman's I have coming up, and have input a training program into a calendar, consistent with the weeks leading up to both races. I'll start training for the HIM February 23rd, and the IMLOU training will be 8 weeks in when I complete that race, so I'll just pick up where that one left off. As I was plugging in the workouts, I noticed that the week after my half (Muncie), there is a Recovery Week for the IM plan - which actually works out great. I'm also thinking of doing another half about a month later - which would be approx. 2 months prior to the full. The Laurel Lake half is apparently a pretty hilly bike course, which is exactly what I need. I need to train on hills, as much as I hate them, so that my mind doesn't get the best of me come race day. So, this blog will mostly consist of my training workouts and some race reports for the races I will be doing while training. Today's workout was nothing but swim: Laps: 50 Meters: 1250 Calories: 308 Average Strokes: 17 400M Time: 11:50 Strokes: 16 Efficiency: 64 Total Swim Time: 50:25