I mentioned on Monday that I am sort of in an evaluation phase as I begin to look to next year. My training schedule for the week has been as follows:
Monday - 45 min swim / 45 min run at an easy pace. For the swim I alternated between breast and free style every 100m and I finished 1700m in that time frame. For the run, I actually did a very brisk walk, in fact a much faster pace than I have been able to do before as a walk. I did this because I was trying to keep my heart rate under 120 beats per minute. I find that when I am running, no matter how slow the pace, it is difficult for me to keep under this heart rate.
Tuesday - 60 min bike ride at an easy pace. I finished 12.5 miles in this time period which is quite slow for me. That was really more a reflection of having to stop several times for lights and traffic than my average bike speed. One of the things I have to work on for all of these sports is adjusting my pace. Right now, I am pretty much either on or off.
Wednesday - 5 mile run time trial / 1 hour of Yoga. I finished the time trial in 46.50 which was much faster than I expected. I beleive that this is the farthest I have run since my Marathon at the end of April. I really have not been running much this summer because I have been having to spend my time developing my swim. This was the first time I have been to Yoga in 3 weeks and I could tell. I was really sweating all the way through. I started Yoga earlier this year to help with my flexibility.
Thursday - 30 minute swim at an easy pace / 1 hour weight training. Because I was to do an easy pace, I elected to do breast stroke the entire swim. This turned out to be quite a surprise. My swim time for breast stroke was much faster than expected. My swim time for 50 m was about 1:10 which was about 20 seconds faster than I had been averaging. I swam 1350m in 30 minutes. The afternoon was weights pretty much for the full body. I kind of tweaked my left shoulder, tricep and bicep but I don't think I did anything too damaging. Just a little extra Advil for the next few days.
Friday - Off day - which I really enjoyed.
Saturday (today) - a BRICK - 15 mile bike (recording time) followed by a 5 mile run (recording time). I wanted to work this into my running group, so I went over to church, where our running group meets, and started my ride a little more than an hour and 15 minutes before our group run. I finished the bike in 59:36 I think and really felt like I could go on. I don't really feel fatigued on the bike like I do when I run.
That said, I still have several things to figure out on the bike. The biggest problem has to do with my transition from the bike to the run. When I make that transition, I feel like I can't breathe when I first start the run. It takes a mile or two before things seem to fall into place. (That is one of the reason for this brick this morning to try to get my body accomodated to that transition.) I still have to figure out food and fluid on the bike. For 15 miles, this is not an issue but for 30 or more miles, it is. I am also trying to figure out clothing. I am just freezing on a bike when the temperatures drop below 50 degrees. This morning the temp was about 53. I had made some adjustments - I bought some long padded bike tights and I had on a windbreaker, which helped a lot but I was still cold.
After the bike, I needed to change clothes because while 53 may be cold on a bike, it is not at all cold for a run. I really took more time than I should have to make all of these transitions but it worked out. I ended up running 5.6 miles with my running group in about 57:30.
My buddy Patrick invited me to go on another 26 mile bike with him later in the day and while I think I could have done it, I declined. As it turned out, I think that was wise once again mainly because of the food and fluid issue. A short while after I got home, I could tell that I needed to get some food pretty quickly.
Tomorrow finishes out the first week of assessment with a 45 minute swim of moderate difficulty.
Overall, this week has seemed pretty light compared to the workouts I have been doing most of the summer, which has been nice. Next week however, things ramp up a bit and it will be a little bit tougher.
After that I begin to put together the plan for next year and THEN things really start getting to be tough!
Really not much more to report than that for the day. Hope you had a great weekend!
David
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