Training Log Archive: IMHungry

Fly back from Miami, feel pretty good, drank a great deal of water

C • Best of Luck!! 3

Fly to Miami for meeting, no workout

Some pushing, some high cadence

C • eat well this week - not in calorie deficit 4

C • Weekend 2

three high effort intervals about 3/4M around 6:30 pace

more dialing on the new cockpit, very pleased with the change

jumps on the Trace, dial in aero position with the new post and stem

speed intervals

staying loose and timed in the water, wish I could get in some OW

race distance, last hard swim workout

hard push, felt tired but strong, building up some very good fatigue

interesting to note that the fatigue is advanced at this point. After finishing hard workouts, and the last tri, I feel heart tired. I note this so that I will know the turning point if I soon get sick, or I achieve very high levels of performance, either way the fatigue ha definitely advanced. I still feel relatively fresh at the start of each workout, with some muscle soreness, but I'm not dragging myself through anything at this point.

22 laps = 1100 yards = .625M = 1,000m

Race Day Food:
small bowl of watermelon, kiwi, strawberry, grapes, and 1 banana

C • not many calories in that race day breakfast 2

Sprint Distance, more experimental than anything else. No taper whatsoever, couple days before was completely debilitated from high intensity workouts, was using this race to be one of the final heavy workouts before the taper into the half iron.

Swim was cake, although I got out of the water four minutes after the leader, still had little issues with nav and power was there for about 80% of the distance. might become an issue for the half.

Bike was just moderate exertion, I pushed last bike and I think the run suffered from it, also, last race I took in little to no calories, this race I took in a lot of liquid calories, on the bike was Infinit (High calorie, electrolyte, med amino acid, no caff) and some cyto. I'm starting to think that cyto doesn't have enough calories even for sprint distance. infinit makes me fart and burp but so what. Had a selection at the T area of drinks, not effective, having a specific drink to grab and take with is the deal.

Run felt way better than last time, saw some quick intervals ~6:30 for limited times, hilly course, still though I need to figure out a way to make the run faster, start by losing another 20 lbs probably. used my new Brooks Racer ST shoes and I think they're great. Very light with form support, feel much better than the Zoots I was trying to get.

Some things that I wonder: how much did not tapering really effect the race? Should I try to keep up with lead swimmers? AT for swimming affect biking and running? How much would a more aero position on the bike help? I'm starting to feel that I can't get the front down far enough on the Giant.

Oh yes, dude hassles me over being Lobster. I mean, are you really doubting if I weight more than 200lbs or not? Are you flirting with me? NO I will not make out with you.

so, I'm doing this spin class and the instructor says ok well 10 is all the way up, so I want to try it out and start cranking the knob cw. eventually it stops, and I just use that difficulty for like the next 40 minutes. huh, hope that means I'm getting stronger. They really need to change the geometry of those spinning bikes and put on bars. also, worked on turtling the noggin some too.