Week Three Complete: The ups and downs.

Training week three… done.  I didn’t find this week’s training any more difficult than the previous.  The mileage increase is gradual enough that it doesn’t feel overly taxing. That being said, I did have my moments this week.

If you read Friday’s blog, you know how bad that was, but this week wasn’t all figurative blows to the nether-regions.  This week I swam 2500m freestyle, straight, with no brakes. I’m pretty sure that’s the farthest I’ve ever swam.  I did swim for four hours straight once, in order to motivate a youth swim team who was trying to break some kind of swimming relay record. However, that wasn’t freestyle and I was a young, studly lifeguard at the time.  I have no idea how far I swam, but I do know that afterward, I had the best Dr. Pepper and Snickers bar that I’ve ever had in my life. Mmmm, I loved being a lifeguard.  Anyways, it was a good training swim and I felt pretty good afterward.

As far as my running goes, I don’t really feel like it’s coming along that well.  I’m not exactly sure what to expect though.  This is the base phase of the training; so, it’s just time to get use to the mileage.  I feel like I’m just trudging along though.  I really don’t enjoy it that much, at least not like I use to, years ago.  I’m counting on the running getting easier as I continue to lose weight; especially, if I don’t have to carry all this “tons-of-fun” around with me. 

I did buy some yoga videos.  They’re specific to triathletes.  I did a couple of sessions this week and it felt pretty good.  I need to establish more of a routine and incorporate them into my training schedule.  The videos are called:

Spinervals Flexible Warrior 1.0: Athletic Yoga for Triathletes
Spinervals Flexible Warrior 2.0: Cross Training for Multi Sports
Spinervals Flexible Warrior 3.0: Flexibility for Swim, Bike, Run

In retrospect, they were a bit pricey and I’m not a fan of the names (flexible warrior… give me a break), but they seem to be pretty good so far.  I bought all three volumes and have done the flexibility routine on the first disk.  I might have gone overboard with buying all three, but I figured I would get bored quickly, so I thought variety would be nice.  I’ll let you know if they just repeat themselves. Namaste Bitches!

Monday

Rest Day

Tuesday

Swim: 2500m
Run: 0:40 HR Zone 2

Moved swim Wednesday due to conflict with work.

Wednesday
Swim: 2500m
Bike: 0:30 HR Zone 2 (Quick Change to run)
Run: 0:15 HR Zone 2

Awesome swim… a little boring, but got it done.

Thursday

Swim: 300m warm up, 8x50m drill, 12x100 @ 20sec, 8x50m drill, 200m cool down
Bike: 0:45 HR Zone 1 (100+ RPM)   +0:15

Moved swim to Friday for recover from Wednesday’s awesomeness.

I rode an hour on accident; I forgot how far I had to ride.  Oh well!

Friday

Swim: 300m warm up, 8x50m drill, 12x100 @ 20sec, 8x50m drill, 200m cool down
Run: 1:00 HR Zone 2

Crappy run day.

Saturday

Bike: 1:45 HR Zone 2

Sunday

Run: 1:00 HR Zone 1-2

Total Hrs: 8:00

S: 2:00
B: 3:00
R: 3:00

Next week is recovery week; so, the mileage is a little less.  It’s a good thing too. We’re going to New Orleans on Thursday and will be there all weekend, trying to stay out of trouble.  Not a whole lot of training will be happening.  I’m going to try to get most of my training done before we leave, we’ll see. 

Thanksgiving is coming up soon!!!  I LOVE TURKEY DAY!   Cheers.