Friday’s 1.5 mile swim seemed a lot harder than normal. If you know me, you know swimming is by far my biggest weakness. I was getting out of breath, taking in lots of water, and having a hard time sighting for direction. That turnaround buoy could not have come any faster. Once I made it to the 1.2 mile loop buoy, I was going to head back but EVERYONE kept going to the 1.5… so I followed. There were huge waves coming in from all the boats out in the main lake and my body felt like it was being tossed around in a washing machine. I just knew when I got back to shore my watch was going to have clocked well over an hour (I refuse to look at it as I swim as my friend Colleen said you swim faster when you don’t look at it). Well, I looked once we hit the shore and it said “55:50”. Are you kidding me? This isn’t fast by no means and I (as usual) was the last person out of the water, but this was about 3 minutes faster than last week’s split. Hmm, I guess the swim sucked and was hard because I was actually pulling hard.
Ok, so this past weekend proved to be another great bike training workout. We mapped out a ride from the bike shop out to Fernvale and back. It was a rather flat two-loop course with a big hill at the beginning and a smaller one at the end. Only about 1,600 feet of climbing per my Garmin but we averaged 21.6mph. This was by far the fastest training ride I have ever done (previous was 21.1 over 44 miles); especially for 54 miles and a near 4 mile run at a 7:34 pace after. I think I got my nutrition down too: 1 gel every 15 miles, half a payday every 20 miles, 1 bottle of Gatorade every 18 miles, and 2 endurodytes every hour. This left me feeling pretty good for the run after. I gotta thank Jeff for pulling some of the way though, we could have kept that pace without he and I giving each other some rest. I’m hoping with a taper and fresh legs that I can manage a 21.0mph average of my half ironman course in Augusta later this year because this workout was at the end of a very long/hard week of training and I was FAR from fresh. I think I’m going to head out and do the same ride this coming weekend by myself and see how I can do OR do a 50+ mile loop back in KY. Depends on where we are this weekend.
After the ride and run, I got cleaned up and headed to KY for my 10 year reunion. Yeah, I’m getting old. However, I don’t think I’m as “old” as some of the people that attended the reunion. I know this isn’t nice, but I almost didn’t recognize some of these people. Here’s a picture of Kiki and me… she cleans up nice huh? HAHA!
The past week’s workouts yielded some more reasonable training numbers: 3 swims totaling about 4 miles, only 2 bikes (both over 20mph though) totaling right at 90 miles, and 4 runs totaling only about 20 miles (actually not bad for my messed up Achilles). In all, I guess it was only about 12 hours of training but this week’s tempo/paces were kicked up a bit and left me feeling pretty tired by Saturday afternoon. Sunday was a much needed rest day.
Ok, so this past weekend proved to be another great bike training workout. We mapped out a ride from the bike shop out to Fernvale and back. It was a rather flat two-loop course with a big hill at the beginning and a smaller one at the end. Only about 1,600 feet of climbing per my Garmin but we averaged 21.6mph. This was by far the fastest training ride I have ever done (previous was 21.1 over 44 miles); especially for 54 miles and a near 4 mile run at a 7:34 pace after. I think I got my nutrition down too: 1 gel every 15 miles, half a payday every 20 miles, 1 bottle of Gatorade every 18 miles, and 2 endurodytes every hour. This left me feeling pretty good for the run after. I gotta thank Jeff for pulling some of the way though, we could have kept that pace without he and I giving each other some rest. I’m hoping with a taper and fresh legs that I can manage a 21.0mph average of my half ironman course in Augusta later this year because this workout was at the end of a very long/hard week of training and I was FAR from fresh. I think I’m going to head out and do the same ride this coming weekend by myself and see how I can do OR do a 50+ mile loop back in KY. Depends on where we are this weekend.
After the ride and run, I got cleaned up and headed to KY for my 10 year reunion. Yeah, I’m getting old. However, I don’t think I’m as “old” as some of the people that attended the reunion. I know this isn’t nice, but I almost didn’t recognize some of these people. Here’s a picture of Kiki and me… she cleans up nice huh? HAHA!The past week’s workouts yielded some more reasonable training numbers: 3 swims totaling about 4 miles, only 2 bikes (both over 20mph though) totaling right at 90 miles, and 4 runs totaling only about 20 miles (actually not bad for my messed up Achilles). In all, I guess it was only about 12 hours of training but this week’s tempo/paces were kicked up a bit and left me feeling pretty tired by Saturday afternoon. Sunday was a much needed rest day.
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