Posted by madtrippin on September 19, 2008
For the three weeks after the Chaska Tri in July I continued on my frenzied training schedule of 6 workouts a week over 5 days. I was assuming I’d be doing another tri in just over a month. Then my parents came into town for a week and I only trained 1 day. Then the next week we got a puppy and I didn’t train at all.
Long story short… I scrapped the second tri for the year and have been only running, biking and weight training only once or twice a week since. I haven’t swam once in the month of September and that’s really where I need the help.
I guess I need the event to motivate me to train. That being said… I’m looking into some runs to do this fall (5ks or 10ks) to keep me working out more consistantly. I really do get a lot of satisfaction out of working out and being in shape. I guess I also like to just be able to say I work out and stay in shape too.
I’ll post more on my run training and suspect I’ll continue to bike and swim some as well.
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Posted by madtrippin on July 8, 2008
Last night I was going to do a full brick. Bricking is what they call the transition from biking to running – apparently a reference to the way your legs react to the change in muscle movement/usage. I’d never heard the term until I decided to do a tri. I’ve done 13 miles on the bike and then run 1 mile after and your legs do feel like bricks.
Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate. It wound up storming pretty hard and I found myself running on the treadmill at the community center for about 35 minutes on an uphill setting most of the time, followed by a light round of weights. I could have biked indoors and then run on the treadmill, but spinning on the exercise bike for an hour bores me to tears. I need to be outside to bike any kind of distance.
Today will be my off day. I’ve trained 3 days in a row and I’m feeling a bit tired, so a rest day will be nice. I’ll have to hit the pool on Wednesday night and then again Saturday and Sunday. I’m only a week and a half away from the race, so I’m going to try and finish up the serious stuff this week and lighten the load next week.
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