This morning long Intervals were similar to the ones I did last thursday, with the exception that the break in between the two long intervals was only 5 minutes instead of 10 minutes. Session 2 is definitely easier than Session 1 each week, but not by much. My heart rate for the second interval seemed to be above 160 for the entire time and closer to 165. Definitely a good hard workout.
Weight: 165.6
Finally made it back outside for a run this morning. At 25 degrees it was a little bit chilly, but not too bad. It was nice that it was actually light out while I was running, but I think the time is going to change again this weekend, so it will be back to the dark again. As long as the snow and ice stay away so I can stay outside.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/72096443
Weight: 166
Getting better, but not quite there yet. Last week when I did this workout I was only able to get through 3 of the intervals before falling apart. This week I managed to make it halfway into the 5th interval before my legs just gave out. I rested for 30 seconds and then finished out the interval. The last interval I had to rest twice as you can seee in the chart. My legs just didn’t have the strength to keep going, of course my heart was up to 166 so maybe that had something to do with it too! Each of the interals was 6 minutes long with a 3 minute rest.
I definitely enjoy doing these even though they hurt. I have to believe that all this will pay off when I finally get outside. I may keep doing these workouts even after the weather gets nice just because they force me to work hard, harder than I can probably push myself outside on the bike. When I get outside I find it far to easy to just coast down a hill 🙂
Weight: 166.6
Another good workout in the pool this morning. The over all workout was a little bit shorter than usual in total yardage but we were definitely pushing harder. I was leading in my lane so I didn’t get to draft and that made it a little tougher, but I would rather lead if I am fast enough.
600 warmup
400 pull
200 kick
800 – 4 x 125 free 75 stroke
200 kick
200 pull
400 – 4 x 75 stroke 25 free
400 – 8 x 25 easy 25 fast
Total: 3200 yards
Weight: 168
Another long Sunday ride, up to 3 hours now. It’s a long time to be riding on the CompuTrainer, but at least I have the TV to entertain me, and my riding friend Julie. I’m not sure who is more entertaining. There was also my 4 year old son who made an appearance for about 45 minutes of the ride. He road laps around the garage on his bike, made us look slow. I was just shy of 53 miles in my 3 hours today. My legs felt pretty good, but I will have to start eating some real food as the hours start to build. Gels and Perpetuem can only do so much or maybe I will experiment with upping the amount of Perpetuem per bottle.
Weight: 167.2
The good thing about swimming with a group is that they push you. This morning I was ready to just mail in a few thousand yards and call it a day. I woke up feeling tired and sore, yesterday taking a lot out of me for those intervals I could still feel it in my legs. Heading into the pool there wasn’t many people there to start and I was thinking this could be good, nice relaxing swim. That all ended quickly as I saw a blur go by in the water, great, the fast swimmers were here. I used to consider myself a pretty good swimmer until I started swimming with this group. This morning I had trouble keeping up with a guy doing the backstroke, pretty sad. But hey, it motivated me to swim hard and if they weren’t there I would have just relaxed and swam easy.
700 warmup
300 pull
200 kick
800 1×200, 2×100, 4×50, 8×25 free
800 1×200, 2×100, 4×50, 8×25 stroke
800 1×200, 2×100, 4×50, 8×25 free
300 cooldown
Total: 3900 yards
Weight: 166.75
Weight: 166.6
Another day on the treadmill, nothing really exciting to report. I spent an hour on it and did about 7.4 miles. My heart rate stayed around 145 for the run. One interesting thing I noticed was that when I walk to cool down my heart rate drops to about 105. That is about 15bpm less than it used to be when I would stop and walk after a run.
Weight: 166.5
After my recent CP30 testing I figured that the new interval sessions would be great. Everything was calibrated correctly, I should be able to power through these workouts, no more failing in the middle of the tough intervals. Well, good news and bad news. Bad news, I only made it through three of the 6 intervals before my legs just gave out. The good news, I finally figured out what my problem might be! After the workout I was analyzing the data and I happend to notice that it said my weight was 170, close enough right? Well, on the 3D software I have been putting in my weight plus the bike weight which comes in at 200. So I have been doing my interval training with 30 less lbs, which means I had to increase my effort in order to get to the same power numbers. So to be consist I will change the weight to 200 for thursdays interval session and see how that goes. Hopefully the new RacerOne software will be more clear about rider weight and bike weight.
Weight: 167.6