Well for the first time I can honestly say I have been busy with training and if I have a free moment it is mostly filled by sleeping. I had hit panic mode as I had mentioned before because I felt behind. Like I can't run for an hour and a half and that is what training had been calling for. The good news is that I had counted my training weeks wrong and when I thought I was on week 9 I was really supposed to be on week 5. So it looks like I am right on track. I have been slacking in the department of half marathon training but that is not my "A" race so I am not too concerned about that. I have not been putting in as many miles as that training has been calling for so we shall see how the weekend of May 19th goes.
Update on Training:
The struggles I seem to have hit are time, time, time and time. Where do you find the time. Last year during this adventure I was living alone and worked from 9-5. This year I have a roommate and I work from 9-6 and my commute home is now longer then .8 miles. This has created some interesting workout hours and and my Friday nights at the gym are a lot later then they used to be. Oh I also forgot to mention that I have cable now. So my workouts motivated out of pure boredom that I had last year do not exist this year. So I find myself having to find a little more motivation from with in. Which some days is harder then others.
Currently, I am on week 7 and this is the hardest week of my second build phase. Next week will be a "recovery week" and then I start building again. To give you an idea of the workouts this week I will let you know what my long workouts on the weekend call for. Friday-1,900 swim and a 50min run with 12 x 30sec sprints worked in. Saturday-is a 2 hour ride, Sunday-is a 1:20min run with a 2,300yd swim. Tallest order to date but next weekend will be a bit of a rest. :) Still a 2 hour long ride, 45min run and 1,200yd. I have relief in sight.
I have a big weekend ahead of me but I am excited about it! Weekend update to come (hopefully sooner than later).
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