I just completed my 4th week of training. This week I logged about 8 hours of training and 62 total miles on the ground and water. This was my recovery week and the final week of the prep period. Next week begins Base 1 period. This should be a fun month.
This was a good month of training. It was a lot of sessions, but so far, nothing overly difficult. A couple 30+ mile rides and my long runs were slow and about 90 minutes. I hit a personal swim distance record of 3,000 yards last week. And my swim is by far my best sport. My running and biking are starting to come along as well. I had been doing about 7 miles in my 90 minute runs, with HR's in the 140's to low 150's and this past thursday I did 7.3 miles with an HR of 138. A drastic improvement. In my biking, today I did the same route as I did two weeks ago. At the same HR of 149, two weeks ago I did it in 90 minutes, and today I did it in 84.5 minutes. Another large improvement. These improvements are very encouraging as I enter the next phase of training. Tonight I had a very brief scare with mother nature. Of course this occurs on the stretch of the parkway where I hit the fastest speed of the entire ride. I'm coming down at about 35 mph, and I hear a noise off to the left, I look over and a deer pops out of the woods, and looks like it's about to run across the road, directly in front of me. I saw it, started yelling at it, and fortunately I scared it back into the woods. I felt a huge sigh of relief and relaxed a bit, then the next thing I knew I looked forward, there's ANOTHER deer who DID run into the road and it's directly in front of me running across!!! Once again I started yelling and that one kept running and cleared the road just as I crossed where it had been standing. I'm not sure who seemed more scared, me or the deer. Wow, what a scary experience!!!
Now on to month two!!
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