Decided to start blogging again since I am pretty much consumed by triathlons these days. I have two months until the first triathlon of the year and I am really excited. I have been working out quite a bit in preparation for the season. My big race of the year is Ironman Wisconsin in September. Ultimately I will sacrifice performance at any earlier season triathlons in order to do well there. That should not be an issue though. I have a couple of sprint triathlons on the calendar as well as Ironman Kansas and the Hy-Vee triathlon. I started logging all my workouts the last week of January and here is where we are. I have 43.31 miles of swimming, 1182 miles in the saddle and 223 miles of running. Numbers I am proud of but still don't seem like enough. I am lightyears ahead of my numbers last year and last year I thought I had a decent year so hopefully the time translates to better performances.
So this week, I had a great day of working out Monday. I started with 30 miles on the bike in the morning, 4 miles on the treadmill at lunch and 30 miles on the bike in the evening. Because I am focusing a lot on the bike and that takes up a lot of my available workout time, I try to make my runs, even on the treadmill, as intense as I can. For me that means hard intervals. So on Monday I had a warmup 10 minute jog at 7.0 and moved 8.0 for two minutes, then to 9.0 for two minutes, then to 10.0 for two minutes, then to 11.0 for two minutes. The 11.0 was a struggle but I felt ok. After the 11.0 I dropped to 5.0 to recover for three minutes. Then I started over at 8.0, then 9.0, then 10.0, then I skipped the 11.0 and tried to hold on at 12.0 for as long as I could which was just short of two minutes. Then I dropped to 7.0 to cool down for another 10 minutes before wrapping it all up. Ideally this would have been an easier workout but considering I had already had a 30 mile bike under my belt I felt pretty good. Still had a 30 mile bike planned in the evening and I still felt great.
Tuesday was a wasted day with my daughter and I being sick. I was so excited to build off the great workouts on Monday that I was really disappointed. Got nothing done. Sat around all day with my entire body aching. At first I attributed it to the workouts but it was clear by afternoon it was much more than that. Got a good nights rest and today I feel like a million dollars compared to yesterday. To get the rest I need I skipped my morning pool session and decided I am going to get in a 10 mile run in this afternoon and then sit on the trainer for a couple of hours tonight. It is a beautiful day out so getting outside to run should be nice.
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I am also from the Central Iowa (clive) area. Looks like you're doing a lot of intensity - based on what I read, that may be too much for so early in the season and a lot of miles thus far. I'm also doing Hy-Vee and IM WI.
It really isn't too much for where I am at with my training cycle. I did a marathon in January so I have been working out pretty hard all winter and I really don't feel worn down at all and I would be the first one to let off if I thought I was over doing it. As you know it is about balance and the intensity changes from one week to the next based on what types of workouts I can get it in.
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