Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Monday And Tuesday Training
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Monday
Monday started Base III. In the morning, I headed up to the FAC to continue work on the mechanics of my swimming stroke. I spent 40 minutes working on rolling to the air to breath and stay within my timing for each stroke. Breathing on my left side is coming along, but I am struggling on the right side. I am not high enough in the water to get an easy breath on that side. Otherwise, I feel like I have a good feel for the basic freestyle stroke. I am ready to start swimming longer distances to get ready for my first sprint triathlon in 3 weeks. In the evening, I went back to the FAC and lifted weights.
Tuesday
In the morning, I went out for my first run of the week. After a 2k warm up and a 1k zone 2 effort, I picked up the pace and ran 6k at a zone 3 tempo (4:50/km) pace. I finished the run with another km back in zone 2. It was a tough workout, but I saw my pace stay steady across each kilometer of the 6k tempo run.
In the afternoon, I took my bike out on the road for a 70 minute ride. It feels good to be able to ride outside even if the winds were fairly strong. I did a 10 minute warm up and then spent 60 minutes in zone 2. I made sure I didn't spend much time during the ride in either zone 3 or zone 4. I wanted to keep it at an easier pace because of the hard run this morning. Even so, I was still able to maintain a 30kph average for the ride. I was very happy with the effort.
Later that evening, I spent 14 minutes doing some core exercises to finish out the day.
Monday started Base III. In the morning, I headed up to the FAC to continue work on the mechanics of my swimming stroke. I spent 40 minutes working on rolling to the air to breath and stay within my timing for each stroke. Breathing on my left side is coming along, but I am struggling on the right side. I am not high enough in the water to get an easy breath on that side. Otherwise, I feel like I have a good feel for the basic freestyle stroke. I am ready to start swimming longer distances to get ready for my first sprint triathlon in 3 weeks. In the evening, I went back to the FAC and lifted weights.
Tuesday
In the morning, I went out for my first run of the week. After a 2k warm up and a 1k zone 2 effort, I picked up the pace and ran 6k at a zone 3 tempo (4:50/km) pace. I finished the run with another km back in zone 2. It was a tough workout, but I saw my pace stay steady across each kilometer of the 6k tempo run.
In the afternoon, I took my bike out on the road for a 70 minute ride. It feels good to be able to ride outside even if the winds were fairly strong. I did a 10 minute warm up and then spent 60 minutes in zone 2. I made sure I didn't spend much time during the ride in either zone 3 or zone 4. I wanted to keep it at an easier pace because of the hard run this morning. Even so, I was still able to maintain a 30kph average for the ride. I was very happy with the effort.
Later that evening, I spent 14 minutes doing some core exercises to finish out the day.
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