The much-awaited taper has begun! MONDAY: Spin class. Took it a little easy and didn’t kill myself with tough resistance or anything. Worked on high cadence for the sprints, but took it easy otherwise. TUESDAY: Took the day off. Intended to go for my group ride, but it rained all day, and I decided that a fast group [...]
This was the final peak week of my Augusta Ironman 70.3 training. I’m exhausted, sore, and just plain worn out. I’ve really been pushing it for the last two weeks. I looked back at last year’s training and found that in the final 28 days, I logged 16 workouts and took 13 days off! I’m sure I [...]
We’re entering crunch time in the training. This was supposed to be a step-back rest week, but since I’d taken 5 days off in the previous two weeks, I repeated week 11 of the plan for week 12, then on to 13 and 14, which are my true “peak” weeks. This week was the longest I’ve done [...]
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It has been a strange couple of weeks for me. Lots of weekend “stuff” that has forced me to do a little juggling with the 70.3 training plan. I had my sister’s wedding a few weeks ago, which meant very little training that weekend (or none, as the case may be). I scrapped last weekend’s long ride [...]
In a perfect world, you would accomplish your training each day, see steady improvement, and “life” would never get in the way of your training. Yeah, right. In the real world, you run into weeks like this one. This week, my sister got married. Forgive me for the next few selfish statements, but endurance training is inherently [...]
