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This week involved an unplanned trip to FL which means I got to swim in the hotel pool again.  My aim was to swim 40 mins a day as I increase the swimming time and I managed to do this, but the great thing was that based on my measurement of the pool length using Google Maps, I think I swam 1500m each day.  I will know for sure how long I’m swimming once I get back to the 25m pool this week

I was able to run 15 miles for the week which I’m happy about especially as I had to run 2 days in the FL heat and humidity.  The run I’m most proud of though is the Monday run which I did in 44F temperatures and in the rain.  That was quite a cold run!

My cycling has once again suffered as I just couldn’t bear to ride for more than 30 mins on the indoor bike.  I did manage a 2-hr (33-mile) ride on Saturday, but even that should have been a 3-hr ride.

I ended the week at 7 hours of workout time.

 

Goals for Next Week: For the next week, I hope to swim 1500m each day.  For running, I plan to up my weekly mileage from 15 miles to 18 miles….an average of 6 miles a day.  For cycling, I will once again shoot for a 3-hr ride on the weekend

Whenever I have to travel for work, my workout schedule always gets a bit screwed up.  I went into the week knowing I would be swimming in a smaller hotel pool and not being sure of the distance so my goal was to swim 30 mins each of my 4 swimming days.  I was able to do that so that was great.  I’m not sure of the correct distance I swam, but I figured it was somewhere in the 1100-1200m range

I only ran 1 day in FL as it’s always so hard running in the warmer, humid weather, but I made up for that by running 7 miles on Saturday.  That was my longest run for the year.  The weather was perfect and I felt great.  I ended my running week with a 3 mile run as part of a BRICK workout to hit 15 miles for the week.  I was surprised how good I felt running off the bike.  My legs had the normal jelly feeling, but after the for first mile, they felt normal and I ran the 3 miles without any walking breaks.  The surprising part though was that I ran it at under 11-mile/mile pace.  My legs felt great and they just kept going.

While my swimming and running went great, my cycling was below average.  Mentally, I’m having a hard time doing the longer ride.  It didn’t help that it was 60F on Sunday.  To avoid the long ride, I ended up riding just 1 hour and turning my bike ride into a BRICK workout and running 3 miles after cycling for 17 miles.

Goals for Next Week: I have an unexpected trip back to FL so that is going to impact my training schedule.  It is likely I’ll only get in 3 swimming days and all of them will be at a hotel pool again.  So, my goals will be to swim 30 mins each of the 3 swimming days, run 15 miles and do a 40-50-mile long bike ride

 

As planned, this was a lower volume workout week as I was traveling over the weekend with the family.

The highlight of the week though was my swimming for 1000m without stopping, and not just once, but TWICE!  My goal for the week was to swim 4 days x 1000m and while I did swim 4 days x 1000m, I far exceeded that by doing 2 of those days non-stop.

I only managed to run 2 days and cycle 1 day with 3 days of no workouts.

For this next week, I’m in Florida so that may impact my cycling and swimming will be a bit odd as I have to do in the small hotel pool.

Goals for Next Week: Since I can’t tell reliably how far I’m swimming while using the hotel pool, my goal will be time-based.  I will aim to swim for 30 mins for each of my 4 swimming days.  It takes me around 26 mins to swim 1000m so I figured 30 mins will be around 1100-1200m.  That will set me up for swimming 1500m the following week back in TX.  Cycling may be a bit short this week depending on how much I can bear using the indoor gym bike, but I hope to run 15 miles.

This week as almost perfect.  For the first time, I swam for 500m continuously and the only thing that would have made it perfect was if I was able to swim 4 days.  Since the pool was closed on Thursday, I only swam 4 days.

On the running front, I was able to hit 15 miles which has been a regular goal for the last several weeks, but just as importantly, I did all 15 miles without any walking breaks

Cycling was OK with a long ride of 2 hours.I was originally hoping to do a 3-hr, 50 miles ride, but I was a bit tired today so I rode for 2 hours

Overall, I was able to hit 8 hours of workout time this week for the 3rd week in a row

 

Goals for Next Week:This is going to be a lower workout week as I’m travelling to Fl early Saturday morning with the family.  I should get 4 days of swimming at 1,000m each, but I may only get 2 running days and 2 cycling days.  This is OK as I’m probably due for a lower volume week after hitting 8 hours for each of the last 3 weeks