Monday Morning Training Report: Rest Week before Ramp Up
Week 4 Training Recap:
Monday – 2 km swim
Tuesday – Chisel
Wednesday – 2 km swim
Thursday – 30 min run
Friday – rest day
Saturday – BRICK (1 hr bike, 20 min run)
Sunday – 90 min bike ride
Swimming: My swimming is getting A LOT stronger! I’m feeling so much more comfortable with my freestyle; I’m getting faster, and to the point that I’m now able to do freestyle for about 2/3 of the laps. I’m still doing unilateral breathing, but have started to practice breathing on my left side in hopes of getting to the point I can start doing bilateral.
Long Run: No long run this week, since it was a rest week. Instead I did a quick 30 minute “runch” down to the Lincoln and back.
BRICK: Haines Point. Only three laps, it flew by in a jiffy!
Long Ride: We went the opposite way on the Mt. Vernon trail this week, past Roosevelt Island and into Arlington on the Curtis Trail, which is all up hill on the way out. I crowdsourced some long ride recommendations, so I’m looking forward to checking out some new terrain in the coming weeks!
Nutrition: Still struggling on this front. When we get back from vacation, we’re definitely going to get into some major meal prep so we’re fueling our bodies in the way they deserve. In the meantime, this looks pretty delicious, right?
- Night before: Bantam King Ramen counts as carb-loading, right? And the fried chicken ice cream sandwich we had for dessert too? Also, this place was awesome.
- Post-workout treat: District Doughnut
Photo of the Week:
Week to Come: We’re headed to Cape Cod on Tuesday, so we’ll probably have to adjust our training a bit this week since we’ll be without bikes or a pool. My thought is that we’ll do our BRICK workout on Sunday and double up swimming and the long bike ride on Monday since it’s a holiday. We may have to miss a swim, because I hear there have been some shark attacks in the bay, and I can’t imagine it would be easy to do an Ironman if a limb gets chomped.
Monday – 1.9 km swim
Tuesday – 40 minute run
Wednesday – 2 km swim
Thursday – 9 mile run
Friday – rest day
Saturday – 1:40 BRICK (1:20 bike, 20 run)
Sunday – 2:45 min bike ride
