Base phase week three "End of week three"

Yea! I made it to the end and am so proud of my self!
This was a hard week with everything being kicked up a notch, and it has pushed me farther than I ever imagined I could go. Having a bit of a burn out at the end of week two I somehow started to feel pretty good again around Wednesday, although tired after most of the workouts I guess that's really par for the course!
Friday morning came way too fast for me man, we were up at 5:00 am to make the pool in town, Our workout consisted of 1800m total 300m warm up, 8x25m mixed drills, the main set was 8x100-25 easy -25 hard, 8x25 kick and 300m cool down; near the end of the main set I was starting to fade a bit, never mind the start, and was relieved once the kick session was done so I could just coast on the last 300m, OK well maybe next Fridays am swim will be better , I think my body was in shock! and not quite awake yet, it was kind like zombie mode or something..he he.
It was a treat to come home after work and just go do our run right away and we put our feet up for the rest of the day afterwards, Tammy and I were both a little sluggish from the early am swim but we pushed through another workout .
On Saturday morning the roads were wet and we thought it would be better to wait until the roads dried up a bit. Well 1:00pm rolled around and I could have went down for a nap, but we kicked our self's out of the house and onto the bikes for an awesome ride around Yellow point and the sun even came out! it was nice; we did about 1:55 min ride it was supposed to be 2 full hours but managed to cover about 49km so overall that was good for us. I felt fairly refreshed throughout the ride, and am starting to get used to my new aero bottle too, also the gel flask is real handy, no more trying to rip open a gel mid ride and squeeze it down and chase with water.
We did our gym workout soon after arriving home, it too went well for me and I just could not figure out why I felt so good! but hey I'm not complaining. My body is responding well with the strength training and I can see a remarkable difference compared to last year in overall fitness level and strength.
O yea last day! and it started with an endurance swim up at Nanaimo's pool. We got there at around 10am and the Riptides had a swim meet going at the far end of the pool so we only had 25m lengths instead of 50m but this was also fine. Today's total was 2100m with a 300m warm up 1500m main set and 300m cool down; I had a tough time getting my goggles adjusted so they wouldn't leak and had a hard time finding any rhythm. Soon after I started my main set I fell into a groove and just paced through it the whole way and stopped once to sip some go juice, and finally the cool down I did 150m using the pull buoy and the last 150m free style. my total time for that workout was 51:25 ya hoo! and I feel many improvements at this point and its hard to see them week to week but looking back to last year at this time I've come a long way and will continue to strive for more.
And last but not least my run, we headed up to Westwood lake under beautiful sunny skies around 12 degrees and did a double loop completing 12 km in total. It was just so nice out there today with lots of people walking the trails and of course running; we settled into a nice steady pace that I felt totally at ease with and again I felt pretty darn amazing and almost fit like! considering the pounding my body has taken over the last three weeks. And now we enter recovery week which is going to be a great treat for our body's, and minds to just sort of take it all in and recount the highs and lows of this wonderful journey to my first half ironman.