I managed 40% of my total volume last week in one day…today! It was a good start to this final base phase of training. I started with a 2:30 ride (55+ miles) on the CompuTrainer in the morning. I don’t feel like switching gears all the time, so I just set it at 100 laps [...]
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I just finished up my second of three 4 week base building periods for the upcoming racing season. Luckily, I was able to come back from the AC joint injury rather quickly. At the end of the week after the initial injury I managed about 2,000m. After that, I quickly went up to 12,000m, 32,000m, [...]
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I just finished logging in my workouts into PC Coach, the training log software I use, from when I was home over the holidays. Here are some approximate numbers over the past few years:
For years 2006, 2007, and 2008:
Yearly Swim Distance: 550,000m, 940,000m, 1,080,000m
Yearly Bike Distance: 4425 miles, 3450 miles, 4015 miles
Yearly Run Distance: 1025 miles, [...]
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The first two weeks of this new triathlon season have come and gone without much to note, which is a good thing sometimes. At the beginning of last year’s season, I was really focused on swimming a lot more than I ever had. Until my foot started hurting in June, everything seemed to be going [...]
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After the San Francisco Triathlon I started a restoration period. I had been going pretty much nonstop, at least with swimming, since the end of last September. I still did at least 30 minutes of swimming, biking, or running every day the past three weeks. I’ve noticed that training motivation has a bit of an [...]
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