Training Week 2 of 13 for Boise

Sun
- off (actually ran and took saturday off)
Mon (weight 224# -- gained 2 pounds, that's not right)
- Swim :45 (form)
400m in 8 minutes, 750 in 20, 1500 in 41 (couldn't power through to make it 40).
Did a test of single length (25m) at max speed... was 20 seconds.
- Run :30 (E2)
did this on tuesday instead, ran 2 miles in ~25 mins, then 5 min cool down
Tue
- Bike 1:00 (form)
this shifted to wednesday and shrank to 40 mins
Wed
- Swim 1:00 (E3)
didn't end up doing this one
- Run :45 (form)
did this on thursday, 40 mins
Thu
- Bike 1:00 (E1)
did this, was almost back on schedule here
Fri
didn't end up doing anything on Friday for whatever reason, shifted these to saturday
- Swim 1:00 (E2)
did this guy on saturday, swam 2150m total, 750@19 mins, 1500@40mins, 1900@50mins
- Bike 2:00 (E2)
only managed 40 minutes on the bike here. was pretty toast even hours after the swim
Sat
- Run 1:15 (E2)
had intended to do the other swim I skipped and this run on sunday instead (shifting into next week),
but when I woke up I was still pretty worked from saturday. Decided to keep sunday a day off and try to do better next week.

Training Week 1 of 13 for Boise

well, I just realized that I won't be able to do some of this plan, I forgot that this is spring break week, so I can't do swims/runs while Fox is at school... since he wont be at school. Also, instead of the Saturday run, I may just do the GORD offroad duathlon in Prescott.

Sunday
- off
Monday (weight 222#)
- Swim :45 (form)
this swim went very well, I felt very fast, which is odd considering I don't think I've been in the water since Nov. I was focusing on my breathing, and able to limit to 2-3 breaths down the pool, which is better than I usually do. At this "easy" pace, I was doing 1:45 100s, which is way faster than my previous race averages.
- Run :30 (E2)
this run did not go quite as well. I probably should've just gone on the treadmill, but I thought it was warm enough for me to run outside. It wasn't too cold, but I couldn't tell how much it was affecting me. Think I ran for around 20-22 minutes... my garmin was being especially slow about finding satellites. This run did convince me that I should not do the GORD this week... unless something else reconvinces me that I should.
Tuesday
- Bike 1:00 (form)
rode on the trainer later than I should have started. Ended up only riding about 40 minutes or so. I'm still having trouble getting comforable in the saddle, and comfortable in aero position at all.
Wednesday
- Swim 1:00 (E3)
didn't do this because of Fox's spring break
- Run :30 (form)
nope
Thursday
- Swim 1:00 (E2)
didn't do this guy either
- Bike :45 (E1)
I did do this ride, or some of it anyway
Friday
- Bike 1:30 (E2)
Rode for at least 1:00, off and on while watching the daily show online. Still not comfortable
Saturday
- Run 1:00 (E2)
did this at the gym on sunday instead (saturday was a hungover waste). For the first 20-30 minutes my feet, calves, and shins were all fighting me. After a while they got stretched out/whatever so I was able to go pretty well. I actually felt stronger in the last 15 minutes, which I took as a good sign.

January Summary

Let's see, what happened in January... pretty much only the half marathon. I wasn't able to train all that much before that due to hurting my back. I think I was sick early in the month, and I'm sick again now... need to fix that. My resolution was to go as long as I could without eating fast food... that didn't go all that well, but I'll keep track of the number of times I ate it. In January, I had In n out burger 3 times, quiznos twice, subway once, and my nemesis Burger King once. That's a total of 7 times, which is not too bad considering how often I went in December (which I have no idea, but it was a lot). I'm doing to try to use this as a benchmark, and see if I can do better in the later months. (So far Feb. is not starting well, on the 3rd I've already gone to BK twice... got to lock that back down. Being sick I find I'm more pliable to just eating what I feel like rather than making something better)