Friday, May 21, 2010

2 weeks to Mooseman

Since monday, I did a hot yoga class; swam on tuesday and wednesday and felt fairly strong in the pool; did a speed workout at the outdoor UPEI track and felt pretty strong and did the Cycling PEI rec ride last night and didn't feel so strong (relative to other people) Cycling full out with a bunch of people takes me out of my comfort zone quite a bit. I have trained for triathlons for so long that I have really prefected maintaining a low steady heart rate. (which is great for long distance triathlons but not so great for a 50-60 k rides with a bunch of competitive guys.)
this weekend, i am planning on doing a 10 k race to see how my speed is and a duathlon on Sunday. I am looking forward to the duathlon.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Getting Slack about Blogging

I just looked at my blog as was surprised to see that my last post was over a week ago. The time flies by pretty quick. One useful thing about this blog as a record of my training is that it allows me to look back to last year to compare. I recently went back into my blog archive to see how I was doing last year at the same time getting ready for the Mooseman triathlon. I think I am a bit ahead this year mainly because the early spring.

One of the highlights of last week's training was doing some sprinting at the UPEI track on Tuesday. I ran with my friend, Rob. We did a 10 minute warmup and then ran one lap hard and then then two laps easy and repeated that 5 times. It was a great speed workout and something I need to do more often. Otherwise, it was a bit slck for me during the week; I had two solid swims on wednesday and friday mornings; did not yoga Friday night. I had a very good weekend of training and sort of made up for a slack week. I biked for three hours Saturday morning and felt great; I ran for a half hour afterwards and felt like I could have run much further. Sunday I ran for two hours; felt really heavy for the first hour or so and then it got better as I went along. I was a bit slower than I was last weekend when I timed myself with my garmin. Then I did a ninety minute hot yoga class after the run.