Sunday
Today, after what felt like a really long week of workouts (I feel like a broken record, and I imgaine this will be a theme of my blog for some months to come), I finally finished my 9 hours. I actually trained 9:43. I swam about 7250 yards, ran about 18 miles, rode for 3 hours (all of it indoors) and did 75 minutes of strength training. That means that I swam nearly twice the Ironman distance, but ran less than three-quarters and spent about half the amount of time on my bike… in a week.
Today’s workouts were good. I got up early and swam. The pool was crowded and the lanes were all mixed up and the other two people in my lane were pretty slow, so keeping a rhythm for the warm-up and cool-down was a bit of a challenge. The rest of it was fine – I just did my breaks between sets to coincide with positioning myself compared to the other swimmers in my lane. I spent the day playing around – dog run with Charlie, some errands with Elizabeth, and watching football. Then, this evening, I spent 45 minutes on the trainer, in front of more football.
This week, I’m scheduled for 11 hours. Adding time to some cycling and running workouts and adding another strength training session. Wednesday, I’m supposed to do a swim, bike and strength training. We’ll see how that plan goes! Three workouts in one day will be really tough, especially on weekdays. I’ll do my best.
Swim – December 3
Time: 45 minutes
Distance: 2000 yards
Bike – December 3
Time: 45 minutes
Average heart rate: 113