My left knee has been acting up a bit while biking (but feels fine when running), so I took some extra rest days this week. It doesn't help that a new videogame (Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm) came out too. Still a good week of training, though.
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3/11: I skipped the morning swim and went right after work instead. It's nice not being constrained to 1 hour of work like I am in the morning: I swam 3800m total (400m warm-up, then 17x200m sets @4:30), and felt great the whole time. I was even complimented by two old Asian women who said I should be in the olympics. That put a smile on my face for the rest of the day.
3/12: Terrible weather, so I took a rest day.
3/13: 2800m in the morning (400m warm-up, 2000m long in 39:45, then 4x100m cooldown). In the afternoon I did a rare swim-to-bike brick: 2400m swim (400m warm-up, then 20x100m sets), then I rushed home and jumped on the bike for 10 miles. My legs felt super fresh and I had no problem with the brick, but the wind was terrible and my left knee was acting up by the end of it.
3/14: 6.22 mile run to break in my new shoes. It started out as a tempo run (where each mile is faster than the previous one), but after the first three I felt like I was getting a blister so I slowed down. I felt fantastic though.
3/15: Rest day. I had already swam the most ever in a week (9000m) so I didn't want to overdo it.
3/16: I was originally planning on spending an hour or so on the bike, but we got delayed at the Shamrock race expo and by the time we got home I wasn't motivated anymore. Another rest day.
3/17: Shamrock half marathon. Rocked it despite bad weather: 1:56:38, only 20 seconds away from a new PR. I'll write up a real race report tomorrow.
Weekly Totals:
Swim: 9000 meters (3 hours 45 minutes)
Bike: 10.04 miles (35 minutes)
Run: 19.33 miles (2 hours 54 minutes)
Strength: 0 minutes
Total: 7 hours 14 minutes
I enjoyed doing a swim-to-bike brick, and now that daylight savings time has hit I'll be able to do it more. Ideally I would do that once a week (Wednesdays?) with bike-to-run bricks on Thursdays and Saturdays.
My training isn't at the volume that I want it to be at (10+ hours per week) but I keep having these minor nagging issues. But I'd rather play it safe and heal up fully than push it and injure myself. 7 weeks to go until the Monticelloman Olympic Triathlon.
I enjoyed doing a swim-to-bike brick, and now that daylight savings time has hit I'll be able to do it more. Ideally I would do that once a week (Wednesdays?) with bike-to-run bricks on Thursdays and Saturdays.
My training isn't at the volume that I want it to be at (10+ hours per week) but I keep having these minor nagging issues. But I'd rather play it safe and heal up fully than push it and injure myself. 7 weeks to go until the Monticelloman Olympic Triathlon.
Gotta love Asian ladies with compliments! The volume of your training looks good to me. Keep it up cause some of us are being slackers. Lol!
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