The second week of taper is usually when I become a crazy person who can't handle the universe. I would like to think I kept the crazy fairly contained this week...perhaps aided by my lingering denial that I was, indeed, running the full. This is just the training log, race report will be a separate post.
Monday - Long swim - well, only 3,000 yards, but it was long swim day. The Garmin was still in exile so I was using the wall clock and phone stopwatch to try to time everything...I missed my watch.
Tuesday - Raining hard all day. I almost decided to do this run on a treadmill because of my allergy hacking and it being race week, but I sucked it up and ran outside. I let a training partner (who had already warmed up a mile) drag me out MUCH TOO FAST on warmup and then it was hard to feel like I had anywhere to go for the progression run. Fortunately he had dropped me like a bad habit after 1KM and I was on my own. I managed to eek out a progression before backing it WAY off for cool down. 5 miles total. (11:10, 11:07, 11:00, 10:47, 10:40, 10:25 for half mile splits on the progression)
Wednesday - I watched Chicken Run while riding for an easy hour on the bike trainer. 15 miles in 56:57. Then I went to the Y to swim, I had a 20 minute continuous swim with warmup and cool down. 1700 yards total. This was the day I stopped restricting calories and went to in=out.
Thursday - Easy three mile run downtown in the rain before work. I decided running in the rain was either good practice or good karma for the race. I needed to eat more starting today and in>out is hard.
Friday - Early 20 minutes on the bike trainer watching the rest of Chicken Run. I was allowed a maximum of 20 minutes and so even though I was riding a 5.2 mile course I stopped at 4.95. Still in>out. Still hard.
Saturday - Carmel marathon. See the race report. 26.4 miles (per Garmin). I am still not a warm up/cool down for a marathon person.
Sunday - Happy Easter! After church and a communal meal I will get on the bike trainer for a bit of very easy, slow riding.
March totals:
Swim 21.5 miles
Bike 203 miles
Run 118 miles
Year-to-date:
Swim 67 miles
Bike 626 miles
Run 297 miles
Monday - Long swim - well, only 3,000 yards, but it was long swim day. The Garmin was still in exile so I was using the wall clock and phone stopwatch to try to time everything...I missed my watch.
Tuesday - Raining hard all day. I almost decided to do this run on a treadmill because of my allergy hacking and it being race week, but I sucked it up and ran outside. I let a training partner (who had already warmed up a mile) drag me out MUCH TOO FAST on warmup and then it was hard to feel like I had anywhere to go for the progression run. Fortunately he had dropped me like a bad habit after 1KM and I was on my own. I managed to eek out a progression before backing it WAY off for cool down. 5 miles total. (11:10, 11:07, 11:00, 10:47, 10:40, 10:25 for half mile splits on the progression)
Wednesday - I watched Chicken Run while riding for an easy hour on the bike trainer. 15 miles in 56:57. Then I went to the Y to swim, I had a 20 minute continuous swim with warmup and cool down. 1700 yards total. This was the day I stopped restricting calories and went to in=out.
Thursday - Easy three mile run downtown in the rain before work. I decided running in the rain was either good practice or good karma for the race. I needed to eat more starting today and in>out is hard.
Friday - Early 20 minutes on the bike trainer watching the rest of Chicken Run. I was allowed a maximum of 20 minutes and so even though I was riding a 5.2 mile course I stopped at 4.95. Still in>out. Still hard.
Saturday - Carmel marathon. See the race report. 26.4 miles (per Garmin). I am still not a warm up/cool down for a marathon person.
Sunday - Happy Easter! After church and a communal meal I will get on the bike trainer for a bit of very easy, slow riding.
March totals:
Swim 21.5 miles
Bike 203 miles
Run 118 miles
Year-to-date:
Swim 67 miles
Bike 626 miles
Run 297 miles
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