No Limits Day 8

Effort, Effort, Effort, good people my RPE (Rate of Precieved Effort) was awesome.

It was a 4,000 yard(2.27 mile) swim workout. I was the only one to finish all sets. After some mentoring on my stroke, it all just clicked. At first it was just a couple of strokes, then a length, then a lap, then two, then 400 yards, then my last 800 yards, everything felt strong. I did not do any times on my laps but based on me leaving my normal competition on the other side of the pool and staying close to the stronger swimmers out there, I would say when I was on, I took 20 seconds of my normal 2 min 100's.

After a longish transition for the run, I stuck to my 5:1 plan and took 15-30 seconds of my overall mile splits. I was running a 8:08-8:28 pace then walking a minute. My HR was in the mid 160's running but my RPE was around 6.0-6.5 outta 10. It was only a 50 minute run according to plan but I could have easily kept going. I was as fresh finishing as when I started. In fact I ran a 3 minute negative split coming back and had to run serpentine through the parking lot to make the full 50.

There is no limit to what you can achieve. I challenge all of you to make a commitment to just 39 days of training with No Limits. Until the end of February what can you do to improve yourself that you know you can do, know you should do, but right now do not do.