Swim days are success days

Well, really, many non-swim days are success days too. A good brick day is a success, and of course there's the day I ran to work with a bike. But a swim day always feels satisfying. Yesterday, I got off work around 8 in the morning, biked home, changed, biked to the beach, swam, biked home, and had a fourth bike ride to get to work in the evening. I wore my new yulex gloves for the swim. They're certainly very effective. It's a strange sort of dichotomy, the same one I noticed when I first swam in a wetsuit. You feel simultaneously more protected from the environment but more disconnected from it. My hands were not numbed by the cold, but they were still less sensitive to the environment because of the gloves.

Maybe you can't protect against anything without also always noticing the barrier.

I've got three weeks left in the current triathlon training plan. Three weeks is also when I should hit 100 reps for all my strength training exercises. I need to make sure that there is a continuation plan of some kind; if not for improvement, at the very least for maintenance. I've looked around at various rules of thumb; "you can do in a day what you do in a week", for example. The idea there is that you could, for a competitive event, run and swim and bike in a single day the same distance that you usually spread out over a whole week. In theory, then, if you were to cumulatively perform an ironman distance every week, you would more of less always be ironman-ready. In theory. I think that, at the very least, you would want a hefty chunk of each exercise to be done in one shot; for example, running a half marathon distance once per week, and spreading the other half over the other 5 or 6 days of exercise. Likewise, there would have to be a long bike ride, 50 or 60 miles at least. It would probably be best to have one day be a sort of massive brick day; bike 60 miles and run 13 over the course of 8 hours or so.

There are many possibilities. I'm also thinking about adding pullups into my strength training; not with the goal of doing 100 a day, as with the others, but perhaps 10 or 20. The only issue is that, unlike the other exercises, pullups require a bar, and none of the doorways in my home are strong enough to even support such a thing. I think there may be a pullup bar in one of the local parks; maybe I could have a morning jog/strength training/jog approach.