Snow Day
Trying to learn from last year's mistakes, I'm going to take a Trainer Day today. There is snow on the ground and the wind chill is 20 degrees before you even account for bike speed.
My first work-week with the new training schedule has gone reasonably well. I'm certainly getting some swim+run overload but I wasn't able to squeeze in any threshold bike rides. I figured I'll give my body a week or two to get used to the new schedule before I go totally nuts.
The stats:
- Five 6:30am swims totalling 22150 yards
- Three morning runs and one evening run totalling 35.4 miles. One track session at 85% effort.
- an ez fixie ride on Friday evening
- two PT appointments, two strength sessions on my own
- Some nagging pain in my foot near last year's injury site, but we flexed it all over the place at PT and couldn't find anything. Hopefully this is the last time I'll have to think about it!
Memorable workout of the week: Dave and I did a 4200-yard pull set on Wednesday morning at Samena. The hard stuff was a 50, 100, 150, ..., 400 on a 1:10 base but with a 300 @ 3:50 inserted between each. Swimming with Dave is always a challenge because he just gets stronger and stronger the further he swims. He'll negative-split just about everything while I often "go our hard and die like a man."
Learnings:
- It's tough to get to bed by 10:30 but when you're hella tired by then it's a lot easier
- discretion is the better part of valor: getting those swim+runs into the log was more important than the evening rides this week; you don't have to bike outside when it is 30 degrees and wet out
- my 2008 schedule needs more recovery time. Mon or Fri should be an easy day every week. This week I did an ez swim and no run on Friday so that I'll be able to recover for the weekend and next week.
Peter Reid is giving a talk this evening at Eastside Multisport. Should be interesting.