Training Week 2: 12/4/06 - 12/10/06

Training Schedule
Mon, 12/4: AM-Swim = 1 hr Master's swim workout
Tues, 12/5: AM-Bike = 45 min Spinervals hard workout (1.0, "No Slackers Allowed"), PM-Run = 35 min HR Zone 1-2 run, Strength = Core workout & flex band workout
Wed, 12/6: AM-Bike = 1 hr 20 min Spinervals workout (14.0, "Totally Time Trial") but keep HR in Z1 - 2, PM-Swim = 1 hr Master's swim workout
Thurs, 12/7: AM-Rest, PM-Run = 1 hr 10 min long run w/ HR in Zone 1-2
Fri, 12/8: AM-Run = 40 min easy run w/ HR in Zone 1-2, PM-Strength = weights & core, Swim = 1 hr Master's swim workout
Sat, 12/9: Rest day!!!
Sun, 12/10: AM-Bike = 1 hr 50 min long bike

Monday 12/4/06 update:
Just a quick update. Scheduling workouts around the crazy work schedule is tough! I want to go back to my cushy engineering hours. Rolling in at 9AM was great. Oh well...this will make me disciplined for those longer workouts later on.

Is it sick to admit that the trainer is a good thing? That I'm actually enjoying having one? I can get up at 4AM and be on the bike spinning away in the comfort and warmth of my home. Not to mention much safer. I don't think anyone has been hit by a car while on their indoor trainer. Yep, just me and Coach Troy at 4AM. Wonder if Zac will get jealous that I'm spending so much time with another man. Probably not because about half way through the workout I'm saying not so nice things to the TV. ;-)

Saturday can't come soon enough. I can't wait for that rest day!

Friday 12/8/06 update:
I've joined back up with Master's swimming at the UA. I do the evening workouts with Coach Colleen and it has been really good. Swimming with a group keeps me motivated to do the swim workouts. If I swim on my own I'm more likely to ditch the workouts. On Monday the pool was SUPER cold...we're talking wetsuit legal water. By Wednesday it had warmed up a bit. Hopefully tonight it will be even warmer. As an extra treat to myself I always jump into the dive pool which is really warm like a hot spring. Just a quick dip in there warms me right up. It's sinfully delicious. ;-)

I can only do about 3 days in a row of getting up really early for morning workouts, and then doing an evening workout. After that I start to crash and need at least one morning of sleeping in (which right now is sleeping until 6 AM). I'm ready for Saturday's rest day. No workouts scheduled at all! Then on Sunday I'll be right back at it with a 2 hr bike and 40 min run.

How many weeks left???? Oh yeah...

Lessons Learned this Week:

• Rest is important. Don't slack on the rest or else it will make the workouts useless! I've been doing good by getting 7-7.5 hrs of sleep a night. 8 would be perfect.
• Don't fret over missed workouts. I missed a swim last week, but I've got to move forward. As long as it doesn't become a habit and I start missing a ton of workouts a week, it shouldn't be a problem. Hey, stuff happens and schedules change. Gotta roll with it.