19 miles @ 6:59 or Faster

Seventh week in: 84 hours and about 606 miles of training. Only 27 weeks left! This week yielded only 8 workouts; however, they were all very hard key workouts.

Swim: This one is easy, the pool was closed all week for swim meets so I didn’t have to swim at all. HAHA, I’m sure I’ve lost all the great form I’ve built up too (HAHHA, what form?).


Bike: I didn’t spend a lot of time on the bike this weekend at all. I went to one spin class and one trainer night at the bike shop where I had a relatively hard workout for about 1 hour each. Legs were just a little shot from Monday’s strength training and a got a very long ride in the weekend before, so I focused on the run this weekend. Jeff went out and rode the Hell of the South race course (we both signed up for the race this weekend) with a group of about 25 guys. I wish I could have gone, but my plan called for a long run. Oh well, maybe next time.


Run: Now this is where the week’s work went down. Tuesday, I did 4 mile repeats at 6:20, 6:30, 6:23, and 6:27 (total workout was 6 miles). Thursday, I did a 5 mile tempo at 6:53 (total workout was 8 miles). Saturday, Mark and I met up for a long close-to-race-pace run on the Tom King course (just 3 weeks away). I ended up knocking out a 13.5 mile run with 10 miles in the middle at a 6:59 pace. I’m very sure that was the best run I’ve ever had (races included).

Strength Training: As always, three days a week, full body, for about 1:30 each day. Monday’s workout with Jasper though was very rough and left my legs tired the rest of the week; I barely got recovered in time for Saturday’s long run mentioned above. After the workout was done, we ended with suicides. I was ready to die. One of the exercises on Friday (yes, only ONE of them in the 3 circuits that I repeat five times) required a total of 375 reps. I just did the calculation too, between every workout rep I did (total body) on Friday, I had 1,455 reps (shoulders, arms, chest, legs, etc.). No wonder I’m sore.


Best day of the week though was probably Friday. Kristin and I both were off work we had a great day together (granted, she hasn’t had a day off in a month and I had to work the whole weekend). I still lifted early in the morning and she took the dog to the vet and dog park, but after that, we had lunch, bought her some nice boots, went and painted pottery (ironman theme on mine, can’t wait to see it done), went to the See Spot Bakery, she went to McKay’s, then we went and had dinner at a new place and had ice cream. It was like a daylong date.


IZZEs are back in my diet (Clementine of course)! WOO WHOO! Also, just started up on my new USANA personalized vitamin packs; I’ll update next week on how well USANA is working for me.