Just plodding through the workouts. I've been a bit tired on the swim but other than that I'm good.
The weather has been better so I've been running and biking on Hines Drive again. Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday I got decent rides in with Tuesday being much warmer. I was able to ride without my heavy coat but the other days I was bundled up pretty good.
My last 2 longer runs have been outside too which is a good change from running on the rec center track. It's been warmer in the afternoon too so I'm able to run at lunch and split my MWF run and swim workouts by a few hours.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010
Another week
Pretty good week again with some ups and downs:
Ups...FTP test on the bike was tuesday...Went well, I started on the aggressive side and was able to hold it for the whole test period. I figured that I would be able to hold low to mid 220's for the 20 min test and I did. 223 for 20 min after the long warm up and 5 min blow out portions.
That puts me very close to where I was last year at this time but am not dreading the workouts. Last year I started in October instead of January and rode hard through the late fall/early winter.
For the sake of numbers I'm going to increase my FTP to 212 from 200 untill I'm told to do something else by Mike. (That's ~95% of 223 watts)
Downs...FTP test raised my bike training zones by 12 watts :(
Downs...I had to cut monday and wednesday swims down cuz I was so tired.
Ups...Friday I felt really good in the water again.
Downs...The two pools I have access to on Saturday were both closed :(
Ups...The two pools I have access to on Saturday were both closed :)
Ups...I was at Mt Holly on my snowboard with Gavin for 8 hours on Saturday cuz both of my pools were closed :)
Downs...The snowboarding made my saturday bike ride more difficult...but I still did well :I
Ups...I got to run outside on sunday for my long run and didn't have to circle around the track at the rec center 120 times :)
Downs...It was colder than I thought outside but still comfortable :I
Ups...I reached 143 lbs this morning and am allmost to my first goal for weight loss :)
Ups...FTP test on the bike was tuesday...Went well, I started on the aggressive side and was able to hold it for the whole test period. I figured that I would be able to hold low to mid 220's for the 20 min test and I did. 223 for 20 min after the long warm up and 5 min blow out portions.
That puts me very close to where I was last year at this time but am not dreading the workouts. Last year I started in October instead of January and rode hard through the late fall/early winter.
For the sake of numbers I'm going to increase my FTP to 212 from 200 untill I'm told to do something else by Mike. (That's ~95% of 223 watts)
Downs...FTP test raised my bike training zones by 12 watts :(
Downs...I had to cut monday and wednesday swims down cuz I was so tired.
Ups...Friday I felt really good in the water again.
Downs...The two pools I have access to on Saturday were both closed :(
Ups...The two pools I have access to on Saturday were both closed :)
Ups...I was at Mt Holly on my snowboard with Gavin for 8 hours on Saturday cuz both of my pools were closed :)
Downs...The snowboarding made my saturday bike ride more difficult...but I still did well :I
Ups...I got to run outside on sunday for my long run and didn't have to circle around the track at the rec center 120 times :)
Downs...It was colder than I thought outside but still comfortable :I
Ups...I reached 143 lbs this morning and am allmost to my first goal for weight loss :)
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