IMAZ - 6 weeks

Totals for the week: Swim 3100 yards, Bike 104m, Run 20m. Not great, but bike and run miles are fairly consistent over last few weeks. Been biking over 100m and running over 20m per week for last 3-4 weeks, a good volume.

A belated update due to business travel.

A strange week of sorts. I went hard the previous weekend and took a while to recover. Mon, took off. Tues, took off again. Was supposed to start back, but legs still dead. Wed, biked on trainer in house. Got a late start. Only went 25m instead of 40m on plan. Thurs, tried to swim, but struggled terribly. Very frustrated. Cut swim short, did not run, and went home. I haven't struggled this badly since I started swimming! Fri, took off again. Third night this week that I took off. Trying to rest up for big weekend.

Sat: Biked 50m, then ran 10m. Went hard on bike for first 2 hours, avg'd 17 mph. Went with group through Rankin County on the "infamous" dog route. Be prepared for random, sporadic interval runs on this route due to dogs! Thanks Beckly! Went strong for 2 hours, then faded for 3rd hour. Went home, regrouped, and ran 10m. Ran pretty well. Did not expect to run well. Was expecting the bonk monster to jump out from behind any tree and get me, but it didn't happen. This was the first day to use new fueling plan on run due to Coach S. It seemed to help a great deal!

Sun: Biked 28m, then ran 10m. Was supposed to bike 50m and run 12m, but it didn't happen. Road Poco route with Jim and Scott. A few weeks ago, I led this ride and pushed them hard. This time, I could not keep up and did not even try. Was trying to do a recovery ride and then run 12m after. The wind was so bad, it nearly blew me off the road a few times. The cross winds were terrible! So after 28m, I decided to go home and start the run. I ran well through 9m, then my right IT band started to hurt, which was new. It wasn't bad, but enough to concern me. So I decided to stop at 10m and "fast walk" home. Figured I was going to walk some at IMAZ anyway, so this was a good place to practice. Felt good and walked fast at 13:15/m pace, or so. I was happy with that.

So while I started the week down and fatigued, I ended the week on a good note. My swim was terrible, but my pace was good, a 2:10/100 pace. Part of my bike was good, part was poor. But that was because I did not pace well. My runs were good. I paced well. The new nutrition plan seems to be helping a ton! I have never run 10m on back to back days, much less after some hard biking. So I was pleased with that.

Next week, will recover during week and go long on weekend. Just a few more big weekends left before taper! Got to get it in so I can do my best at IMAZ!