This week has gone well, i cant wait till i start racing some 70.3 series. I have been swimming alot to make sure that i can compete at ITU races later in the year. But i have realized that i am not a fast enough runner to do well at that distance so the goal is middle distance racing, which will give me a few years to work on my running, and progress as an athlete. News papers blow stuff out of portion and even though i have an olympic dream i know i need to become a fast runner if i am every going to make a major games one day in my life. For now i have concentrated on 70.3 distance racing, an ITu will be on hold untill i can run with the big boys. I had a good week, Reading Paul Tichlears blog really helped get me fired up this week, those guys are training like mad and i cant wait to watch the olympics and hope to see a repeat like Sydney.
This week was solid, Monday a big day with 3 workouts, same thing on tuesday with a bike workout including 7x5mins at a fairly steady effort, a hard AT run and a swim.
Wednesday was a good hard swim with 7x100m decending, i got down to 1:05 so that is pretty solid for me, then went 6x400m that was drill/swim fairly aerobic. Wednesday afternoon was a hard ride with Jack, we did motor pacing and it was a 2hour suffering workout ending with 3x1mile single leg drill, with 1mile between. Then a big cooldown.
Thursday was a good track workout session, running a bunch of km intervals at 5min mile pace, and some 400's and some more 1kms legs a bit sore. Then later in the afternoon had a good swim workout, 5k logged again, with 10x100m under 1:10 pace, followed by 4x5x100m all on 1:20 turn around, pretty good swim but sore afterwards.
Today is a recovery day swim and run. Tommorow i will race the Athens Sprint triathlon and hope that the large volume allows me to race fast. I will have a big weekend of training, and start a big two week training block before resting for Oceanside 70.3.
Thanks for reading.
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