Lifting in the OS
Although I understand why RnP advice us not to lift weights with the EN plans, I just can not step away from the weight room. I have been a personal trainer for over 10 years and I have been lifting weights since I was 19 (no 48) and I firmly believe, for me, that it helps me stay injury free. Having said that, it does add more time onto my schedule, resulting in more hours than the plans call for and the possibility of increased fatigue, but it has been 4 years now and I think I have figured it out. Today I read a good article entitled "Rules for Effective Strength Training" which provides advice on where you to put your strength workouts in a run program and it is exactly what I do. I am the 2x a week girl and if things become to busy when we hit the longer workouts, I go down to 1x a week for the inseason and then pick it up again in the outseason. Thought I would share the article with you all.
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It's a short workout, and then I go swim for about 30'-45', mainly to loosen up. http://www.endurancecorner.com/library/strength_training/dryland_training
Like you, only 2x week and plan on 1x week or even dropping it as our EN stuff gets more intense/longer.
I have been using my TRX for upper body/core only. No legs as I don't want to interfere with my biking or running.
Starting next week I will use my HRM and make the TRX sessions superset intervals and use that HR data to plug into TrainingPeaks so I can track that TSS along with the bike and run. A bit geeky but I am on a mission to fix my body comp and the data will help me adjust, if needed. If I am getting tired during the week I will remove the TRX workouts so they don't affect my B/R.