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STATS:
Swimming: 17,400yds in 5 sessions
Cycling: 312 mi in 4 sessions
Running: 36 mi in 6 sessions
Maintenance: 45 mins
Total: 30.5 hrs
Ave Weight: 166 lbs
GOALS FOR LAST WEEK:
Last week my main goal was to continue to get in some bigger base miles finishing off the week with "le tour de truth". The goal for the weekend was to get in 100 miles for 3 consecutive days with over 18K of climbing each day.
* Continue to be patient and keep everything under LT minus 15 bpm (150 bpm bike & 160 bpm run).
* Be more diligent with nutrition starting this week. Need to drop 5-7 lbs by Clearwater in November.
* Three strength sessions.
* Swim 16K, Bike 320 mi, Run 36 mi
RECAP:
It was another successful week of building endurance. I started to feel "normal" while training on Wednesday of this week after taking 3 weeks of very low volume for my mid season break. On Thursday I started waking up at 5am to meet Tim's swim group at 5:30am at the MCAC. I think this is really going to help to improve my swimming. I met them again on Friday and hope to keep this going throughout the rest of the year and into 2010. On Friday we headed to the mountains and stayed in Banner Elk on top of Beech Mountain. It was a fun and challenging weekend and over the 3 days we got in 317 miles cycling in 22 hrs 34 mins with 55.5K ft of climbing. I'll post more about that in my upcoming "le tour de truth" post. Overall the week was great with a lot of aerobic work and a good amount of muscular endurance work while climbing in the mountains.
GOALS FOR NEXT WEEK:
I plan on keeping the overall volume up for one more week and will take some recovery the following week. I'm a bit sore right now from the long weekend so will have a light training day on Tuesday and Wednesday.
* Continue to be patient and keep everything under LT minus 15 bpm (150 bpm bike & 160 bpm run).
* Continue to focus on nutrition. Need to drop 5-7 lbs by Clearwater in November.
* Two strength sessions.
* Swim 14K, Bike 320 mi, Run 30 mi
THOUGHTS:
I am pretty tired from the long weekend of training so my brain isn't functioning properly right now. If I had any extra thoughts for the week I've forgotten them while riding for countless hours.
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