Monday Off
Tuesday 1:45 hours tempo bike (2x18 min at threshold w/ 10 min active recovery); unable to do swim
Wednesday 44 minute tempo run (24 minutes at threshold)
Thursday 1:30 hours moderate bike; unable to do 1 hour moderate run (Jennifer out of town for work; Tristan had football practice)
Friday Off (Jennifer out of town for work; kids to school and pick up)
Saturday 4 hours bike/run brick (3 hours bike; 1 hour run)
Sunday 1:10 hours run; 3800 yard swim (2.16 miles)
Felt good this week. Was motivated for each workout and had some good sessions. Unfortunately, due to work and family responsibilities, I was unable to get in two scheduled swim sessions and one scheduled run session for the week. This forced me to get some additional and perhaps needed rest. I felt really strong for this weekend’s workouts and thanks to cooler temperatures, I completed Saturday and Sunday’s workouts at higher than average speed and a lower heart rate.
This weekend was a triathlete’s dream. The motivation was everywhere. Chief among the viewing opportunities was the Ironman World Championships yesterday. Crowie Alexander repeated as the men’s champion and Chrissie Wellington 3-peated as women’s champion while breaking the women’s record. I was also able to catch some of the Nautica LA triathlon on television yesterday.
Today was the Toyota US Open Championship in Dallas. My brother and his family attended and kept me updated. Matty “Boom Boom” Reed won the men’s race. On Versus, I was then able to watch the St. Anthony’s and St. Croix triathlons from earlier this year. With only 42 days until IMAZ, it was a great weekend of motivation going into these final 6 weeks.
This coming week brings over 19 hours of training (the biggest week yet). I’m taking the day off work tomorrow to be with the kids (they’re out for Columbus Day), so I hope to sleep in a little (wake up at 5 rather than 3:45 am) and start the week off by completing all my scheduled workouts. With a brick workout of over 2 hours, a 5:45 long bike, and a 2:50 long run among the scheduled workouts, it promises to be an epic week.
Congrats to Claude for getting cleared by the doctor for a return to light training. My thanks to Chris Schmidt for the Ironman cap. I plan on taking it to Arizona and after I cross the finish line, putting it on will be the first thing I’ll do! Thanks for thinking of me while you were at Interbike. We all need to be there next year.
Best wishes to all my Team Topper Tri brothers and all of you out there trying to be and do better.
Kia Kaha!
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Karl- I know you will check this, Dennis is limited on his computer time right now..... You know about the bug. He will begin posting again as soon as I get the kinks out of his machine. Thank you, MEL
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