Week 14…back to building again. It feels good to be too. Temps are starting to warm-up again, although the winds have been howling away. My HRV is back in the green again, so full speed ahead. The body likes to be working hard.
In the Green! iThlete Training Guide Week 14 Mar 30-Apr 6th 2015
iThlete HRV Timeline Week14 Apr 06 2015
While I had planned on a 16 hour training week, I only realized about 12 hours of that. Most of that was from lack of strength training and some running on the back of the week.
First Road Ride Outdoors!!!
On Wednesday the weather and timing all coordinated to give me my first road ride on the actual road. This Winter has not played nicely for riding and I am pretty easily swayed to ride on the trainer since I do get a more consistent workout. It was a beautiful evening as I made my way out to Kutztown. There was a decent wind coming out of the North but it made for a easy cruise home. I was flaunting with the daylight a bit with a 1:40 minute ride though. I was just so ecstatic to be out.
The only downside to it was the roads are atrocious! Major potholes everywhere and the road that were recently paved, but then quickly oil and chipped are all buggered up already from the plows shaving off some of the chips. My God I can’t stand that stuff! Regardless it was nice to be out.
Friday swim…I ended up bagging my LSD swim on Friday, but then made it up on Saturday morning. This worked out ok since the pool was fairly empty Saturday morning. This in turn made Saturday a swim-bike brick which was different for me. I opted to hit the trainer on Saturday since the winds were crazy and the gusts were 25-30mph. I could have gone out and endured the winds and did some hills, but I was thinking about the safety factor. Riding along with a very flat-sided tri bike in strong wind gust has a tendency to blow you out in the road. This along with the fact that I haven’t been doing much in the way of bike handling from riding on the trainer so much, I opted to stay indoors. I did open all the windows and the door in the basement, so there was a little wind. 🙂
Yuki Waiting Patiently for a little “brick” walk after my long trainer ride
I did a 3.5 hour trainer ride following the Trainer Road Excelsior +2Â workout. It was a nice mix of easy endurance with around 4-20 minute tempo intervals thrown in. The workout is typically 4:15, so I had squeeze in the last temp session. It worked out pretty well timewise too since the Flyers were on in the afternoon as well.
TP Training Calendar Week 14 Mar 30 to Apr 6 2015
I did end up skipping my 20 minute run brick, since it was getting to be dinner time and I already did a swim-bike brick. I kind of regretted that on my Sunday run since my legs were really stiff and tired. I have found that I tend to run much better on Sunday when I finish with a brick run on Saturday. Does anyone else notice this too? Please leave a comment if you have found this to be true or not.
Easter Bunny Run…More Hopping than Running!
I got off to a late start Sunday just from putzing around too much in the morning. The weather forecast on Saturday said it was NOT going to be windy on Sunday. WRONG! It was almost as bad as Saturday and the gusts were crazy. As I mentioned my legs were really stiff and when I noticed I was running out of time since we had to be at my in-laws for Easter Dinner, I eagerly obliged by cutting it short. Oh well, hopefully next week will be better.
