Back in Training this week

So, after enjoying a recovery last week, it's time to be back in training this week. I blew off Tuesday's workouts (bad boy)--but have managed to make it through the rest of the workouts so far. Monday a.m. swim workout was coached by Brian, followed by an evening 50 minute run. The earlier sunset is causing me motivational issues and screwing everything up. Whoever came up with the concept of daylight savings time clearly did not take into account ironman training needs in it's design.

Like I said, I blew off Tuesday, so I owe myself a weight session and a bike ride today (which would have been my day off). Wednesday was morning swim practice followed by a 2 hour run. The run was good, ending at just over 10.5 miles--very solid zone 2 effort the whole time. Even with that back off in pace, it still managed to hurt appropriately. I'm interested to see how the concept plays out. Next week is a 2:15 run, and the week after that is 2:30. Following that, the hard training weeks top out at 2:30, and what should happen is that the pace gets faster at the same heart rate resulting in longer runs for the same amount of time.

In any case, it's off to work for me now--

This weekend holds a 50 mile bike/2 mile transition run for us GGW'ers. It looks like we'll be starting at HB Steve's and then having some breakfast afterwards.

Drew