IMCoz 2014 Week 2 of 12 - Are We There Yet?
ok. Week one in the books. We are done right?
Today is long swim day for me. I will report back after lunch when it is completed.
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ok. Week one in the books. We are done right?
Today is long swim day for me. I will report back after lunch when it is completed.
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A string of poor decisions leads to a shortened swim. Was supposed to be 3200M. Decided that I didnt want to go back to my car to get fuel b/c I was in a hurry. About 2400M in I bonked. Floundered to 2700M and called it a day. I am finding that after the long work over the weekend that I can go from fine to starving in no time flat. If I dont keep high quality food near by, something bad will happen...
In the pool this morning at 5am -- 3300 yards done. Tried to do the workout as written, but again my rest periods were a bit longer than I planned -- partly due to the pool clock being broken, partly because I needed a few more seconds of rest. Tonight I'm headed to nearby track to see if I can sneak on. Supposed to do 2 x 1/2 mile and 1 x 1 mile at z4. Sadly it's supposed to be 106 degrees again today. Maybe I'll be lucky and it will dip back into double digits by the time I run. Fingers crossed.
Today was an hour on the trainer 8min and 12min @ 220w and the rest at 170. Then a 30 min run.
Then I had to spend 8hrs driving... 4 hrs to the meeting and 4 hrs home. yuck.
We have rain every day for the next 5 days. trainer time.
I would kill for rain right now. It was 104 when I started my run, but dropped a bit by the end of it. Was able to get on the local track while the football team practiced. But then my Garmin went bonkers and in the middle of a 1/2 mile repeat, the distance reading just went blank. Since I was on the track, I knew where to stop, but I had to reset the stupid thing, which is just annoying. That coupled with the fact that for the past couple of weeks it has me at 50000 feet elevation, means it's time to call Garmin and use the warranty. Blah.
Overall the run was decent. Not great, not horrible. I think I'm just over the heat. I think we have a few more days then it should start to cool off. Tomorrow is trainer day!
I am set to bike test next tuesday and am officially starting to worry / think about it now. I don't think that I will bother run testing. Running for me is so weather dependent.
I woke up this morning to a break in our heat wave (finally) and completed my long run (95 minutes). Started off slow as planned, and had a negative split. Had one gel after an hour, but I was hungry again by the end. Overall the run felt great -- no doubt because it was only 70 degrees instead of 100. Thank goodness the heatwave is over!
This morning was 1hr trainer then a 30min run.
The trainer main set was 5rnds of 3min VO2 max, then 4 min recovery. What a crusher of a session! I was so tired by the end of hte hour that I bagged the 30 min run. I ended up getting the run in at lunch. 30min z2 with 1mi @ z4. 93 degrees but for 30min it wasnt that bad.
3000 yds in the pool this morning. My swim sessions have been longer these past couple of weeks than I have done for past IM prep. I'm hoping that pays off on race day.
Yesterday I got a proper bike fit on my new-to-me bike. Excited to see how it works out this weekend on my long bike rides (4 hours on Saturday and 3 1/2 on Sunday). I'm also excited that it should be about 25 degrees cooler this weekend than last weekend.
Happy Friday!
Long swim today. The pool seemed a little longer than normal.
3300M as 300 warm up 1000 easy 1000 hard (20:11 and 18:49 both of which seemed slow given RPE) and some assorted 100's and 200's.
Not sure how the weekend will go. We could get tons of rain.
I am going to try and complete tomorrow's scheduled work but I might need to pull back next week over all to recover a little.
Today was 4 hours on the bike, which felt decent. I was getting blown around a bit but I guess that will help prep me for Cozumel. I waited til the evening to do my 35 minute z2 run. Time to rest for tomorrow.