Training Week 11: 2/25/08 - 3/2/08

Planned Training
Monday - 2/25/08:
AM - Rest
PM - Run = 30 min done
Tuesday - 2/26/08:
AM - Run = 40 min done
PM - Bike = 2 hr done
Wednesday - 2/27/08:
AM - Swim = 1 hr done
PM - Run = 30 min, Bike = 45 min done
Thursday - 2/28/08:
AM - Swim = 1 hr done
PM - Bike = 2 hr done
Friday - 2/29/08:
AM - Run = 2 hr 30 min done
PM - Swim = 1 hr done
Saturday - 3/1/08:
AM - Bike = 1 hr (bike to TRIFEST) done
PM - Bike = 1 hr (bike home from TRIFEST) done
Sunday - 3/2/08:
AM - Rest
PM - Bike = 1 hr 15 min done

Weekly S/B/R Compliance (based on BT training plan):
Swim = 135 min / 135 min = 100%
Bike = 525 min / 525 min = 100%
Run = 307 min / 250 min = 123%

Total SBR training time for Week #11 = 16 hrs

Monday, 2/25/08 Update:
I still haven't written my race report from 24 Hrs in the Old Pueblo. I've been spending all of my spare time trying to fit training in around other daily life stuff. Zac normally takes care of a lot of stuff like laundry, feeding the dogs, etc, so that I can fit my training in. But he was gone last week and just left for 3 weeks in Germany for work today, so the schedule is extremely crunched right now. On top of that, the TRIFEST conference is this weekend, so I'm going to loose the 2 days that I normally can cram training in on.

I am looking forward to the TRIFEST conference: http://www.trifest.com/html/conference.html There are a lot of talks that sound good listed there. Many of them are related to my IM training, so I'm hoping that will help fuel my focus during these last few hard weeks. I definitely want to see the talk on "Reducing Taper Stress" as my taper starts in 4 weeks. The "Open Water Swimming" one looks like a good one for me too, as I always have trouble navigating in open water and breathing correctly. I'm planning on being there all day each day and going to all of the talks that I can. I've been to a bunch of conferences for work, so it's nice to go to a conference related to a sport that I'm interested in. I'm planning on taking lots of notes!

Training is going really well. I'm just trying not to get sick as everyone around me is sick and passing it around. I keep a bin of Clorox wipes at my desk and use them constantly throughout the day. My biggest fear is to get through all of this training and get sick right before or right on race day. I need to put myself in a bubble or my own personal cleanroom or something. Last year I got sick in March, so I'm REALLY trying to avoid that.

In other news, everyone keeps mentioning how thin I look. The funny thing is, the number on the scale is exactly the same. But my clothes don't fit anymore. So I must be going through some body-type conversion trading fat for muscle. My swim coach said yesterday that I never looked fat before, but now I'm just looking more fit. I'm starting to look more like a real triathlete. It's just gonna suck after IM when my training takes a nose dive after the race. I'm going to have to really watch what I eat after that. Right now I'm eating everything in sight and burning it off like mad. My craving for chocolate has gone WAY up during IM training, so I'm going to have to curb that after the race. I really don't want to loose the fitness I gained from all of this training, but I'm also going to have to recover carefully and slowly ramp the training back up for the June Xterra races.