Weekly Training Log: Week of May 2nd, 2016: Week #20 - Mothers Day 2016

In Training:  I have healed from that shin/post tib injury and I am back to full training feeling normal.  That's about it.  Getting in a consistent two hours of training per day.  Doing what I can.

I am still doing lots of high intensity bike sessions 1 -1.5 hours with 6 - 7 runs per week ranging from 4 - 8 miles in length.  Training at 4:30am indoors is getting OLD.


In Life:  It was the week of Mothers day.  We had a great brunch up at my sisters place in Ft. Collins.   See below for pictures.

Weekly Totals - By the Numbers - Week of May 2nd

Swim: 4,950 yds 

Bike: 198.5 miles

Run: 47.8 miles

Total TSS: 939.5

Hours: 13:08

Days Off: 0

Still haven't left the basement.  Training indoors is getting old.  Time to be done with work and head outside at normal hours.

Snapshot of where I have been

Written by an 8th grader at my school.  Wow.  Snapshot of some of the writing skills.

Some of the most important ladies/mothers in my life

Brunch followed by kid pileups 

I've been stretched thin.

It's early May and I am stretched WAY too thin.  I am doing too much and not getting enough rest (quality sleep) and recovery.  I need to take a step back and I am confident that I can save this season of racing if I do some smart things in the coming weeks.

Here is whats going on:

My workouts are suffering.  They have been for two (or so) months.  My cycling power numbers are stagnant, my run is hit or miss, and my swim is where it's been - maintenance mode until I can get more time to train.  Oh, and my weight is well over where it should be.  I'm tired, worn down, and in a rut.  Not a good place to be in early May.  So - how the hell did I get here?  It's simple - too much with too little recovery.  I recently got bloodwork done and it was good.  I'm sure some hormones are off, but at that time (Jan), things were good.

I also had a bad race in Oceanside and injured myself.  I have since healed, and feel as though I dodged a bullet with that one.  I do think that my body was giving me a warning sign.

Anyways, here's what I plan to do to make 2016 successful:

- A few smaller, local races:  This is to get into a positive groove with some low key racing to start the season right.  I'll do these, then start back with bigger racing at the Boulder 70.3 in one month.

- Skip Ironman Texas:  I have had some on/off feelings about this race over the past few months.  We didn't know if the bike portion would be intact on race day.  These thoughts, along with being worn down make it easy to see I need to sit this one out.

- Go into Boulder 70.3 fresh and ready to get back into the pro side of racing.  Focus on the swim until then and make sure that I am swimming to my potential at this point in the year.

- Finish the school year:  Finish working the school year and focus on what I will do for the next 365 days.  I am going to take the upcoming year to focus on the sport.  I will focus on racing, as well as coaching and other opportunities that I can find within triathlon.  I will still work in the schools, but I will be making some changes on the work front.


That's the early/pre-season update.  I'm hoping that this is the best year yet and would love to take this season well into November.  Cheers to all racing down in Texas tomorrow.

The injury I sustained in Oceanside was visible.  This was two weeks after the race - Left shin/ankle was still very swollen.  I never stopped running on it, but played it safe and was able to fully heal and run at speed within four weeks.

Weekly Training Log: Week of April 25th, 2016: Week #19 - Getting over an Injury

In Training:  After two down weeks, I ramped things up again and was finally able to run pain free and with some good intensity this past week.  I was thinking that I would be down with an anterior tib injury for a while, but bounced back within three weeks.  Score on that one.
Total TSS back above 1000 on the week.  Cool.
I'll be out of work for our summer break soon and training can go up from there.



In Life: Good solid week.  I'm still tired and not getting enough sleep, but e are less than 20 days of work away from summer break.  It was a crap weekend of weather, but summer is right around the corner.  Final countdown.

Weekly Totals - By the Numbers - Week of April 25th

Swim: 5,750 yds 

Bike: 183.7 miles

Run: 47.8 miles

Total TSS: 1,051.1

Hours: 14:30

Days Off: 0

Take your kid to work day - Aiden came to our middle school for an hour.  That was enough.

Aiden had a movie date with his friend Henry from school.

The kid used to RUN past the fish isle with his nose plugged. This is a step in the right direction.

Update: It's been a while

I am going to update with all of the recent happenings in the next few days.  I have let quite a couple of weeks slip since a fairly disappointing Oceanside 70.3 race, thus I need to pick up where I left off.

I will do a quick update soon and keep the weekly training log going through the rest of this season.

15 days until Ironman Texas.  I'll be racing.

Beth and myself the day after Oceanside - We felt like going to Disneyland