Well, I'm about to enter my final base training period. This year has been really cool so far. I structured my training very loosely. If you read this blog, you might remember that one of my lessons learned from Ironman Arizona was to listen to my body more this year. So I set up my year very loosely. Sure, I have weekly and monthly hour and mileage goals, but ultimately I have planned my year around certain periods within my training and racing. Ultimately I will do what it takes to build to this points, but at all turns, I will listen to my body and adjust where necessary.
I was thinking about all this after this past week. It was my first recovery week in a while and came after a tough road race and big training week. My body was telling me that it was over worked so I took one additional day off on Thursday. I was pleasantly surprised to then be able to get in a solid long run the next day and a great 4 hour ride Saturday. I felt strong and powerful on the bike despite not elevating my heart rate. I capped off the week with a great swim on Sunday. We got in 4k in the pool with some great intensity. I was going to run that afternoon, but I was so pretty worn out. I napped instead. Again, it was a recovery week. Not much point in pushing myself when I'm supposed to be helping my body recover.
I have my first open 10k in a few weeks so I'm looking forward to that. I am hoping to drop down to 6:30 pace for that event. I went back and looked up my Shamrock run results and was happy to discover I was the 69th male across the line in the 8k...out of 2100. I was not happy to see that my Garmin was off and my pace was not 6:39, but 6:44 according to the results. I'm confident as my conditioning, and more importantly...intensity, improves so will my running times. I again will not be doing any speed work prior to Race for the Roses as I'm still putting in my base miles, but will then get in some speed work as I build for Eugene Half marathon. Ok, I feel like a I just went on for quite some time on running. I still hate it :)
-T
No comments:
Post a Comment