Week 18 concludes as the second build week before heading into a recovery week. I decided to change from 3 week builds to 2 weeks for a couple reasons: One, it fit my schedule and two, I was planning to up the intensity a bit and being able to recover more often would allow me to sustain this better. Being able to head into my Lake Placid mini-camp in a fresh state will allow me to maximize my training time up there.
If you read last weeks training update post, you may remember I had some IT band/hip issues during my long run last Sunday. Well I was pretty stoked to find that it was not really a problem for me this week. I had a little bit of a niggle at the end of my hill repeat run on Thursday, but nothing major. I stopped running immediately too. Today(Sunday) I ran locally just in case it flared up again, but it really wasn’t a problem at all. I did ice it well when I got home just as a preventative measure.
Although I didn’t have hip issues on todays run, I did fall a little short of my planned 3 hours. It was a gorgeous day and a little hot. I had planned on circling back home halfway through to refuel a bit, but ended up going out longer than I planned and ran out of hydration and food. I basically ran out of gas around 15 miles and walked the last half mile home. I did intentionally run slower today just so I didn’t aggravate anything, so I ended up with around 2:30 hours. TrainingPeaks marked the workout in green on the calendar so it must be ok right? I also figured with the 6:25 century ride the day before I am ok with volume all together. I finished the week with a solid 16:30 hours of training.
Next week is an easy week. Well, relatively speaking. It is pretty crazy that a 10 hour training week is considered an easy one. But it is.
One other item is that I signed up to do the MS City-to-Shore ride in late September. There is a bunch of people from work doing it, so I thought it would be a fun post-season event. I am planning to do the Century ride down and the 75 miler back.
Ok time to go relax…thanks for reading!
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I’m so glad your IT band is better. And in with you: funny how a dip in training down to 10 measly hours feels like a treat! I am doing city to shore too! Our firm has a team and I head it up. It’s a lot of fun.
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Oh that’s funny. I did the City to Shore about 10 years ago. It was great way down, but we had cold, pouring rain and 25 mph headwinds on the way back. That was not too much fun. Hope it is better this time!