I've had a rough few months with real life, and at times it has reflected in my training. This week when I met with the sports psych we spent the entire hour talking about real life, because getting that in perspective is important to me being able to get to "flow state" with racing. By the end of the week coach was reminding me not to let the s%&t of real life steal the joy of triathlon. That needs to stay mine.
Monday - I met with the sports psych in the afternoon and then needed to go back to the office to facilitate a meeting. It was later than usual when I got out to Fort Harrison Y for my swim. When I finished it was 4,100 yards and I knew the workout was supposed to be 4,500. It was like two hours later when I figured out that I had missed a 200 in the set that repeated twice when I wrote out the workout. Oops.
Tuesday - Solid speed workout. 2x400, 4x800, 2x400. I declined the opportunity to go to the track, I didn't even check if it was open and that's where people were headed...but judging from Strava and the relatively few people from the team on the Monon I am guessing that's where most people did the workout. I hate the track. I don't think any amount of exposure therapy would make it better. But 7 miles in 1:21 is a good day for me.
Wednesday - After I got done with work I went to Jordan and swam 3,700 then headed out for a 5 mile run. I was headed out to run at the same time as the MultiFit crew so I got to pass and be passed by some of them. Easy miles, 1:02. I hit 50+ swim miles for the year with this swim. It's only March.
Thursday - The dreaded FTP test came around again. My last one was less than stellar, to the point we haven't even been using the numbers as a base for workouts. This one was good. Only glitch was that I was watching Straight Out of Compton on TV and it ended before the test was over, moving to Jurassic World, which isn't as motivating. It was my strongest and most consistent FTP test yet and we bumped up the FTP we are using as a training base. FTP = 173. 16.5 miles of riding total.
Friday - I was cozy in bed and ready to sleep until right before my breakfast meeting when I heard coach in my head saying that I had a long run on Saturday and I needed to do my swim early and focus on glycogen storage the rest of the day. So I got up and got my happy butt in the pool. 1,750 yards
Saturday - this was the first time that I hadn't really spent much of the weeks thinking about having a 20 mile run on Saturday. In fact I kept forgetting to charge either watch. I got up a little earlier than usual to make sure I had time to eat, have coffee, and get ready. Still forgot to put a watch on a charger. When I went to head out I realized that I was below 15% on one watch and 31% on the other - so I took the 920 with 31% and headed out. I was using my 3:! run/walk and all was well for at least 16 miles. Most importantly, I didn't fall. I was slowing down a little, but still keeping up with everything through 18 when I stopped to save the workout in case the watch did die as it was now yelling at me about the battery. I started again and got 1.4 miles before it died. While that 1.4 was slower than the 18 had been on average I completely lost my mojo when the watch died. Oh well, I finished 20 miles and 18 were at marathon goal pace average so that's good. Felt good about the run, the weather was perfect. After I felt like I had done 20, but I had. MGP is 12:36.
In other running news this week, I received a Phidippides award from USATF for racing a lot last year as a masters (older) runner. It's pretty cool.
Monday - I met with the sports psych in the afternoon and then needed to go back to the office to facilitate a meeting. It was later than usual when I got out to Fort Harrison Y for my swim. When I finished it was 4,100 yards and I knew the workout was supposed to be 4,500. It was like two hours later when I figured out that I had missed a 200 in the set that repeated twice when I wrote out the workout. Oops.
Tuesday - Solid speed workout. 2x400, 4x800, 2x400. I declined the opportunity to go to the track, I didn't even check if it was open and that's where people were headed...but judging from Strava and the relatively few people from the team on the Monon I am guessing that's where most people did the workout. I hate the track. I don't think any amount of exposure therapy would make it better. But 7 miles in 1:21 is a good day for me.
Wednesday - After I got done with work I went to Jordan and swam 3,700 then headed out for a 5 mile run. I was headed out to run at the same time as the MultiFit crew so I got to pass and be passed by some of them. Easy miles, 1:02. I hit 50+ swim miles for the year with this swim. It's only March.
Thursday - The dreaded FTP test came around again. My last one was less than stellar, to the point we haven't even been using the numbers as a base for workouts. This one was good. Only glitch was that I was watching Straight Out of Compton on TV and it ended before the test was over, moving to Jurassic World, which isn't as motivating. It was my strongest and most consistent FTP test yet and we bumped up the FTP we are using as a training base. FTP = 173. 16.5 miles of riding total.
Friday - I was cozy in bed and ready to sleep until right before my breakfast meeting when I heard coach in my head saying that I had a long run on Saturday and I needed to do my swim early and focus on glycogen storage the rest of the day. So I got up and got my happy butt in the pool. 1,750 yards
Saturday - this was the first time that I hadn't really spent much of the weeks thinking about having a 20 mile run on Saturday. In fact I kept forgetting to charge either watch. I got up a little earlier than usual to make sure I had time to eat, have coffee, and get ready. Still forgot to put a watch on a charger. When I went to head out I realized that I was below 15% on one watch and 31% on the other - so I took the 920 with 31% and headed out. I was using my 3:! run/walk and all was well for at least 16 miles. Most importantly, I didn't fall. I was slowing down a little, but still keeping up with everything through 18 when I stopped to save the workout in case the watch did die as it was now yelling at me about the battery. I started again and got 1.4 miles before it died. While that 1.4 was slower than the 18 had been on average I completely lost my mojo when the watch died. Oh well, I finished 20 miles and 18 were at marathon goal pace average so that's good. Felt good about the run, the weather was perfect. After I felt like I had done 20, but I had. MGP is 12:36.
In other running news this week, I received a Phidippides award from USATF for racing a lot last year as a masters (older) runner. It's pretty cool.
Sunday - I went to Jordan to lift weights. There are usually a lot of weight room trolls there on Sunday afternoons, but I swear I was behind He-Man on every piece of equipment I used. 5 min row warm up, then 3x a circuit of bench press, lat pull, overhead press, kettlebell throw, plank, hip adduction, and hip abduction. One He-Man was using the lat pull at 150 lbs and I was pulling 30 lbs so I kept having to move it. Later I rode 30 miles on the bike trainer using a virtual route along the Danube, which was nice and had video and enough elevation change to keep it interesting without killing my tired legs.
Swim 9,350 yards
Bike 46.5 miles
Run 32 miles
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