Week 9 wrap up

Week 9 - Swim Theme week....Total hours: 6.75, Total Miles: 56

This was the first week of the sport specific weeks. This week's focus was the swim. Fortunately, the swim being my strongest event this was the one week I could afford to screw around, and boy did I ever. I missed two workouts this week...the first time all season I'd missed a single workout, and both of them were swims. My Saturday workout was by far the most challenging and it consisted of a 60 min run, 90 min bike, 30 min swim. All in that order, all back to back. Basically the equivalent of an Olympic distance triathlon. I sucked in all three. I mean, seriously sucked. Hoover would've had nothing on me. My run was absolute garbage. My bike was even more pathetic. I normally can routinely average about 18-19 mph on flat ground for 2-3 hours and I averaged a whopping 13.7. PATHETIC! My swim was hard to gauge. It came at the end of the bike and run, and it was in the ocean, which I've never done before, and hope to not have to repeat any time soon. That was REALLY tough by having nothing to site by and having waves crashing on you while trying to breath. So I won't whine too much about those.

All in all, it was an absolutely horrid week of training. I feel like it was a complete lost cause. As a result I'm going to push myself a lot harder in the coming week and probably increase some of my training day durations to make up for what I feel like was a waste of a week. Already had a couple good workouts so far this week, but I'm going to up my biking distances since that is easily my worst sport. Part of that could be due to the fact that I really think I'm riding on either the wrong saddle or an incorrectly positioned saddle. Going to mess with that a little bit before my long ride on friday. Hopefully I can fix it.

Well, that's that for week 9. What a waste.