Triathlon Training 2010: Week 5

DAY	SCHEDULED	ACTUAL	COMMENTS
Monday	OFF	OFF	Recovering from sore neck/shoulder muscles related to the long bike ride yesterday.
Tuesday	Run: 30 min	Swim: 400 yds (12 min, 3 min/100 yds)	Keeping a better pace but still stopping briefly at the end of every length (25 yds). I can tell I’m being challenged because the last 100 yards or so my body does not want to keep the proper form which starts wasting energy.
Wednesday	Swim: 400 yards	Brick… Bike: 28 min (5.5 miles, 5.09 min/mile) Walk: 19 min (1.1 miles, 17.27 min/mile)	My legs started out feeling weird after just getting off the bike. I walked 2 minutes then ran 1 minute but my heart rate felt too high so I just walked the rest. It’s good to get an idea what the transition will feel like. I made a mistake by not having water available between the bike and walk portion.
Thursday	Brick… Bike: 30 min Run: 10 min Walk: 20 min	Swim: 400 yds (12 min, 3 min/100 yds)	I’m not sure if I did 350 or 400 yards because I lost count of my laps (14 vs 16). I barely paused at the end of each pool length and when I got to 14/16 I was at 12 minutes which was the same as Tuesday so I feel like it was most likely the total I needed to do.
Friday	Swim: 400 yards	OFF	Travelling
Saturday	Run: 40 min	Walk: A LOT	Spent about 10 hours walking and standing around an amusement park. Counts for something right!
Sunday	Bike: 15 miles	OFF	Rest and recovery day

Overall Thoughts:

• If I had to attempt a guess at how long it might take me to complete the triathlon (swim 400 yards/bike 12 miles/run 3.1 miles), I think I could maybe do it in just under 2 hours.
• My toe is still messed up but think it’s healed up enough that it’s not painful to run so I plan to get back into it. Since I’ve had about two weeks off from running it might be interesting but I’m hoping since I continued with swimming and biking it won’t be too horrible.

Here is the same week last year.