Triathlon Training 2010: Week 3

DAY	SCHEDULED	ACTUAL	COMMENTS
Monday	OFF	Run: 22 min (1.7 miles, 12.94 min/mile)	5 minute walking warmup and cooldown with 1-1.5 minute running alternated with 1 minute walking. Almost 8 minutes of running total. Getting better!
Tuesday	Swim: 300 yards Run: 20 min	OFF	Planned to swim but it was thunderstorming when I got home. Also, was dealing with some personal issues and didn’t feel up to snuff.
Wednesday	Bike: 8 miles	OFF	I need to catch up on sleep or take naps because I’ve been too tired to want to do much. We’ve been having lots of storms and rain so makes it more difficult to get out and do stuff. I keep forgetting instead I could do My Fitness Coach on the Wii.
Thursday	Swim: 300 yards Walk: 30 min	OFF	It appears I’m doing the opposite of what I should be doing each day. Unfortunately, it is much too easy to get off track, here’s to hoping I get back on track.
Friday	OFF	Swim: 300 yds (13 min, 4.3 min/100 yds)	Swimming is like riding a bike, you can do it after significant time off but it takes several tries before you find your rhythm again.
Saturday	Run: 40 min	Volleyball: 2 hrs Swim: 100 yds	Today was an unconventional workout day since it’s a holiday weekend and friends were involved but I still think it should count for something!
Sunday	Bike: 10 miles	OFF	My excuse (pathetic it may be) is: it was a holiday, I have many sore muscles from volleyball, I have a bruised achilles tendon from getting hit by a grocery cart, and I have a toenail torn in half from a push off the swimming pool wall gone wrong. =D

Overall Thoughts:

• I finally sign up for a triathlon and days later I get an email stating they had to change the date due to construction on the facility where the swimming was going to be held. Unfortunately, the new date does not work for me but I will get a full refund which is nice. Now I think I will aim for the one in August which Kendall will be able to do with me and it will give me more time to train too. The August one also matches the training schedule I’m following so it would work out great!
• So far it seems I am taking more days off instead of the 2 scheduled. Soon the schedule will go to 1 day off so I need to figure out how to make the schedule work better for me.

Here is the same week last year.