Obviously some really big things occurred this week, so there was lots to post about (and it's the first week of the blog...I know the posts will not continue to be this frequent), but the reality is that this endeavor is going to require a lot of really hard work! With that in mind, I plan to include at least periodic updates of the actual training I'm doing along the way.
This week is still a "working back into things" week after taking a number of weeks off due to injury (maybe more on that later). I should really be at the 5-6 hours/week training load, but instead I did the following to make sure I don't overdue it and then REALLY hurt myself.
Swim: 2700 M (1h 02m)
Bike: 26.7 Mi (1h 27m)
Run: 3.77Mi (34m 24s)
Considering where I was just a 1.5 years ago, (at least in respect to the swim and bike) the thought of 3 hours of training being a "working back into things" week is kind of comical :-). I'm looking forward (kind of) to finally getting back to a couple days a week where I have a two-workout day. I'm not sure why, but.it's just satisfying and makes you feel like you're making progress.
The bummer part about today is that I was supposed to have a race this morning. I'd signed up for the Disco Triathlon (Olympic Distance) back in December. It was a really fun race last year when I did the Sprint and I had been looking forward to this until I realized after my time off that I just wasn't ready to go out there. I had already shifted my registration to the Sprint distance because of missing the training I did (this was a few weeks ago in hopes that I might be good to go by then). However, my training runs made it quite evident that missing the weather warmup in late May and June was probably the worst part about having to take time off from training. Just to make missing it a little more painful the weather was unseasonably cool in Dallas today...booo. This was the first race I've ever signed up for and wasn't able to complete (although I'm confident I could've done it...just wasn't the best idea considering the main objectives I have in front of me). I made the wife tell me that I wasn't allowed to do it while I was looking at my packet info Saturday morning...she gave me a stern "no!" :-).
Looking forward to starting a new week (and putting some more miles on that new bike)!
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