After a couple of weeks of being on the road, I am finally settling back into my training rhythm. I’ve been swimming twice a week, about 3500m in 1 hour and 15 minutes, with the Masters’ swim club. I have not gotten any heartburn since I started swimming in the morning. It must be an evening thing.
I’ve been trying to bike to work as much as my schedule will allow it. On Tuesday I biked with the tri club for the first time since the new year. It was pretty great. We did two zone 4 intervals: the first one was two minutes long with one minute rest, the second was 2.5 minutes with one minute rest. It was pretty hard, but I’m not sure I was pushing hard enough. For some reason I can’t work as hard on those really uncomfortable bikes at the university. It really makes me appreciate my bike at home on the trainer!
I’ve been running on the treadmill twice a week and once with the tri club doing intervals. Basically, I’ve just been trying to make it through the winter. It’s been difficult, but I think I’m doing alright with it. Today I did 30 minutes with high intensity intervals of a couple minutes up with one minute rest. I ended up running 2.5miles in 30 minutes, which is pretty good for me. It was good to get the heart-rate up and the legs moving. On Tuesday I did “hills” on the treadmill for over 2 miles in 25 minutes. At one point I was at 6.0 incline and 6.5 speed, which was pretty fast and hard! It felt good. I can’t wait to get outside and try out running again on the pavement.
I had a meeting with my coach yesterday and she thinks I’ll be fine. I’m going to run the marathon at the end of May just so that I can know that I can run it because that’s the part of the Ironman that I’m the most scared of.
I feel very lucky to have such a supportive significant other, who has been helping to make sure I’ve been getting fed. Now we just need to work on getting enough sleep!
That’s great!
Getting back to training AND the man.