Last few workouts of the week....

Looking on the training plan this morning, my final workout for the week was a 30 minute run. I was wide awake by 5 am so I headed out the door by 6 am and decided to engage the city and try to get to the Danube. I ended up running a total of 4.14 mile to the Danube river near Parlaiment and back. Because it was through the city, I stopped to take a few pictures. My time was really slow, completing it in 44:57 minutes. With two months to race day, I think I can add a few run workouts during the week if and when I get the nerve. I think this will help me prepare for the 1/2 in September. I'm just curious how much mileage to add each week. Right now my longest run is a piddly 4 miles. So, should I add a mile each week as my long run or just maintain 4 miles for a few weeks?

As to Wednesday and Thursday's workouts of this past week, they were as follows.....
Wed - swim 45 minutes
Thurs - bike 45 minutes

I'm getting more and more comfortable swimming longer distances in the water. That's great news for me as I remember the day when I could barely stay in the pool for a few minutes. I used flippers for half of the workouts and actually felt the affect in my ankles when I was running today. Is that supposed to happen?

Thursday morning I rode the bike for 45 minutes. There were a few guys doing laps with me in the park and they both sported the look as if they are training for a race -- race shirts, serious clip pedals, etc..... Unfortunately, Chris' bike is a mountain bike and it was making some strange noises on the chain. I'm going to take it to the bike shop and get it fixed. I need to get that bike back to Chris and get my own sometime in this lifetime!! Can you believe I still haven't purchased my own bike? I'm hesitating because it's a big investment. And there are a lot of future factors I'm considering.

I started thinking about race day. I have no idea what kind of bike I'll be on in London. Andrew is connecting me with someone in London who is going to let me borrow their bike.... I trust Andrew and his connections. I'm planning to get in a day early so I can see Andrew and Berna and try the bike out prior to race day. Here are my bike "splits"? Is that what you call them? Basically, I rode 9.28 miles in 45 minutes.
Lap 1 - 4:46
Lap 2 - 9:32
Lap 3- 14:15
Lap 4 - 19:34
Lap 5 - 24:30
Lap 6 - 29:07
Lap 7 - 34:04
Lap 8 - 38:59
Lap 9 - 43:47
Lap 10 - 45:06(only .28 miles)

As I've mentioned in the past few blogs, my eating has been outrageous. So, I decided to start tracking my food and I'm realizing why maybe I'm not feeling the best about it. Lots of breads, pastas, etc but much more than I'm used to and I think I need to be sure I'm getting more protien. Not to mention the overload on chocolate and a nice glass of wine in the evenings. I'm sure that doesn't help. Now that I realize what I'm doing I can hopefully tailor my eating habits and try to get back on track.

Here's a little fruit and veggie market at the end of my street that I ran by today. :D I'm going to try and run tomorrow morning too. We'll see how I do on that. Fun times in Budapest.