one week till mooseman

I am kind of laughing to myself that I am not exactly tapering for my upcoming half ironman next week. I am training for an ironman at the same time so this is kind of a warm up to kick start the season. It will be a good test of my fitness because anything that takes you 5 hours of intense physical activity is not to be taken too lightly.

Yesterday, I did a short brick workout with an hour bike ride followed by about 40 minutes of running. Neither leg was too intense although I did do sprints during the run and felt pretty good. I was a bit late leaving work and I wanted to be done by 7 pm so I could have supper and cut some grass in New Glasgow. This morning, I did one of my week 4 ironman swims which was not too difficult. It was about 2400 m and consisted of 500m, 5- 25 m fast; 400 m, then 4-25m fast, 300 m, then 3-25m fast etc... I don't have anything scheduled for after work today but I am thinking of adding in about 90 minutes of biking. (I really shouldn't be adding stuff) Tomorrow, my plan is to bike 3 hours; run a half hour and then a longish run on Sunday. But, the weather sounds like rain tomorrow fairly definitely and I really don't feel like biking in the rain if I don't have to so I may reverse that and run tomorrow at some point (after the rain) and bike on Sunday.