Week Seventeen Complete

Week seventeen is complete and it wasn’t too bad.  I only missed two workouts, which is good, but unfortunately missed my long ride this past weekend.  Though getting all my workouts in during the week is important, I feel that my long rides and runs (weekend workouts), outweigh my weekday workouts considerably.  Two factors kept me from my ride this weekend. One was the weather and the other, I hate to say, was laziness.  It was raining all morning, so I waited for the weather to pass.  Once it did, I just couldn’t muster up enough energy to do a three plus hour ride.  It was a nice day of doing absolutely nothing, which I don’t see very often.  I guess you need that sometimes; although, I can’t afford too many more.  I have six weeks until Ironman Texas 70.3 and twelve weeks until the full meal deal. Yikes! Storms-a-come’n!!!

For this week’s training it was suppose to be pretty light, with an Olympic distance tri on the weekend.  Well, tri season hasn’t started yet and I felt it would be better to move on to the next week, instead of putting on my own personal Olympic distance event.  Skipping over this week will actually put me back on track anyways.  It seems I miscalculated by a week when I started, which was actually 29 weeks out from the race, instead of 30.  No biggie, but I get to look forward to a four hour ride this Saturday. I think I’ll make it an 80 miler!!!

Monday
Rest Day

Tuesday
S -500m warm up, 8x50m drill, 4 x 200m @ 20sec, 6 x 100m @ 15sec, 8x50m drill, 300m cool down
R - 1:00 Z2 (at 0:10, insert 3 x 6 min Z4 @ 2 min jog)

Wednesday
B - Trans: 0:45 Z2 (QC)
R - 0:30 Z2

Thursday
S - 500m warm up, 8x50m drill, 16x25 @ 10sec, 600 pull, 8x50m drill, 300m cool down
B - 1:15 Z2 (at 0:10, insert 6 x 5 min Z4 @ 3 min spin)

Friday
S - 500m warm up, 8x50m drill, 10x50 @ 15sec, 4 x 100 @ 20sec, 10x50 @ 15sec, 8x50m drill, 300m cool down
R - 1:15 Z2 (at 1:00, insert 10min Z4)

Saturday
B - 3:30 Z2 (QC)
R - 0:30 Z2

Sunday
B - 1:00 Z1 (100+ RPM)
R - 1:15 Z1 to Z2

Total Hrs: 14:00
S: 3:00 2:00
B: 6:30 3:00
R: 4:30 4:00