Last week was a nice recovery week from my first Base Phase block. Kept on training, but lightened the load, dropped the speed work and intervals in favor of some easier riding and running and lifting. I only did one swim session to allow for a full recovery and absorption of the last several months of swim training. This week I begin masters swimming on top of my regular swims for more volume and speed in the water. Cycling was light with my two trainer sessions performed at a much lighter effort and a 40 mile easy ride on the weekend out to Chatfield Res. to catch some friends finishing a running race out there. Running was just a couple easy runs on the treadmill and a 75 min trail run on snowpack and mud yesterday. Only two weight sessions with fewer sets. Wednesday I got out for a very nice XC skate ski at Frisco Nordic Center. It’s finally been snowing up there and the track was great. Got in some good hills and hard efforts trying to mimic the Olympic racers I’d been watching earlier that week in TV. They make it look so easy!Over the weekend I hung out with Kathy’s kids and took them to see Danielle (EPC’er, future Xterra star) race an indoor track meet at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. She did the 5k on Friday and the 3k on Saturday. I had never been to an indoor track meet. Pretty cool and she did great!
So back to the grind stone this week. Lots of quality training on tap for the next three weeks. It is 8 weeks until my first big race and I’m beginning to feel the pressure a little. I’m planning to buckle down and make all my workouts, regardless of weather, and get the fitness I need before heading in to Race Prep. The inclusion of masters swimming this week is a big piece of the puzzle for me and it’s starts this week. Back to 5am wake-up calls on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Not my favorite, but I got get it done. My basic structure for the coming weeks looks like this:
- Monday strength and recovery
- Tuesday/.Wednesdays speed and endurance
- Thursday/Friday LT intervals
- Saturday/Sunday strength and endurance
It’s go time now! The serious training begins this week. I’m feeling ready to get down to business after an extended prep phase and solid conditioning up to this point.
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