Week one complete: The start of a long road.

My first week of training is done and I feel pretty good.  My legs are a little tired, but not too bad.  The weather cooperated most of the week, accept for Thursday morning and afternoon.  We had crazy thunderstorms, so I had to bike at the gym and bump my swim to Friday.  Not a big deal though, I got all my workouts in. I didn’t hurt that the average temperature all week, during the day, was about 75-80 degrees, perfect.  I love the South!

As mentioned previously, I’m using Don Fink’s book, “Be Iron Fit” for my training program. Below you will see that the first week is very doable for many folks.  I imagine the swim might be a hang up for those who aren’t big swimmers; but beyond that, the run and bike are very manageable. 

Monday

Rest Day

Tuesday

Swim: 300m warm up, 8x50m drills, 12x100m @20sec, 8x50m drills, 200 cool down
Run: 0:30 HR Zone 2

I had to cut out the second set of drills due to a dentist appointment.

Wednesday
Bike: 0:30 HR Zone 2 (Quick Change to run)
Run: 0:15 HR Zone 2

Extra swim outside of program: 1000m

Thursday

Swim: Moved to Friday due to weather
Bike: 0:30 HR Zone 1 (100+ RPM)

Friday

Swim: 300m warm up, 8x50m drill, 3x125m @ 20sec, 2x175m @ 30sec, 3x125m @20sec, 8x50m drill, 200m cool down
Run: 0:30 HR Zone 2

Saturday

Bike: 1:00 HR Zone 2

Sunday

Run: 0:45 HR Zone 1-2

Swim: 2 hours
Bike: 2 hours
Run: 2 hours
Total: 6 hours IM training

Week two, here I come!!