Workouts- Week of Aug. 27
First time moving legs after Rev3 Maine HIM. 18 miles e-z. (.71IF) Been resting hard past couple of days. Sleeping in and napping on top of it. Also eating more than usual... Not being a total gluton but def. not watching every bite as usual. Party is over today! Back to work tomorrow too. Still on lighter plan through Thurs. but should be back to full-on IMFL prep by the weekend. I happen to have a Big Training Day on Sat. which is essentially another HIM with a shortened run. Maybe I should ask the coaches if I should do that or use last Sun. as my Big Training Day.....
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If it was me, I would consider your HIM as your "big day"...the main point of the big day is to practice nutrition and know what it feels like to be "out" there for a long time...you have basically done this. Go for a long ride practicing pre and during nutrition and call it a day.
I'm taking tomorrow off and doing my big day on Friday. Wife is still out of town, so the car will be packed up with all my stuff so I can hit the beach after i drop off the kid at school. The sheer volume of nutrition is amazing for a "big day"....
Not sure how SAT and SUN will play out. will do at least one more long ride over the weekend. Probably Sunday. Monday will probably be a longer run and swim.
Ordered two more boxes of Power Gels...jeez.
The Hyvee triathlon is rolling into town here. Itwas cool to see how many pros signed in to use the pool where I train. Haven't seen any myself though. I'm missing out on all of the excitement though, we are leaving town for the weekend. I've crammed a stupid amount of training into a few days, so I'm looking forward to the trip! Did the BTD Tuesday, it went well.
I'm also ordering more power gels and shot blocks
Interval bike tonight. I expected to have more difficulty so it went OK.
Z4
10:42 @ .977IF
9:11 @ .90IF
9:31 @ .944IF
The misses in power are more due to terrain (more downhills) than anything else.
Quick easy 1 mi jog around the block after. Tomorrow is "tempo" run and have reached out to Coach P to see what exactly that should look like.
Last night did 4.25mi run @ 10:54 pace (which is like Zone 1 1/2 LOL) Felt OK.
Today did a group ride. (Bagged Big Day per Coach and team input since I just did HIM) Rode 7 miles to the group then about 33 miles with the group. I must not have hit the interval button so no splits but I think the ride to the group was about .75IF. Overall for the 40miles 2:24:xx was .81 IF so the ride with the group was probably at least .85IF+. Avg. moving speed 16.35mph. Had planned on riding more but couldn't handle the heat. What I lacked in time I made up for with intensity!
4.54mi avg. speed 5.3, time 51:22 (Sounds about right since it included 15' Z3 (10:45ish pace)
7.16 mi, 5mph, 1:26:32 (1 pee break included)
Total of 11.7mi. I think that sounds more like it, we'll go with that....