Training Thoughts

Another hard week with just over 18 hours and that has historically been a lot for me. I knew I would be getting a break this week with the swim meet this weekend so I kept up the training volume.

A breakdown of the last 3 weeks reveals that I've hit my time goals for the Bike which in my opinion are the most important right now. Here are the times and percentages for all three disciplines

Swim......%.......Bike.....TSS...%.......Run......%......Total
4:45:00 30.5% 5:46:00 298.9 37.1% 5:02:51 32.4% 15:33:51

3:30:00 20.4% 8:24:00 485.5 49.0% 5:14:30 30.6% 17:08:30

4:25:00 24.5% 8:24:50 504.8 46.7% 5:11:15 28.8% 18:01:05

Last week's bike time saw a lot on the Computrainer, when I was on it I was doing short hill repeats looking to hold over 250 for the short intervals and 200 for the longer intervals.

The only intensity on the run was from sunday when I ran 45 min of Tempo on the second run of the day. Everything else was easy as I missed my short run on thursday that I normally run fairly hard.

This week will have less volume since I want to be rested for the weekend. I'm looking at a schedule something like this:

Mon Swim 2000M or less
Tue Hard bike, moderate run
Wed Swim 2000M or less, run easy
Thu Bike easy, run easy (optional)
Fri Swim 1650 Free
Sat Swim 100 Free, 50 Back, 500 Free
Sun Swim 200 Free, 50 Free, 1000 Free

Edit: Looks like I'll be adding 4 relays to that :)
2 Medley relays that I'll be swimming Backstroke and 2 Free relays.