Thursday, October 26, 2006
Last push for Treasure Island
Big training day today!!
Started before dawn with a 6AM run at Rancho. I pushed pretty hard to try to keep up on the way out, but the slight uphill made it difficult and I eventually started to fall off of the pace a bit but I still finished the 5.5 mile run at better then a 12 minute pace!
Did a quick and uneventful swim at the pool mid morning and then met up with some of the team for a spin session in the evening.
Total training time today is about 2:30.
Another big day tomorrow with a morning bike ride and then an open water swim and run in the afternoon and then I plan to slow down for the next week to taper for TI next weekend.
It's kind of funny how much less time it takes to train for Olympic then it was for 1/2IM. After all of the 4 hour rides and 3 hour runs that I did for Kahuna, this just seems so much more low key. I need to enjoy this now because this will all change soon as we start to ramp up our distances in a few months.
Started before dawn with a 6AM run at Rancho. I pushed pretty hard to try to keep up on the way out, but the slight uphill made it difficult and I eventually started to fall off of the pace a bit but I still finished the 5.5 mile run at better then a 12 minute pace!
Did a quick and uneventful swim at the pool mid morning and then met up with some of the team for a spin session in the evening.
Total training time today is about 2:30.
Another big day tomorrow with a morning bike ride and then an open water swim and run in the afternoon and then I plan to slow down for the next week to taper for TI next weekend.
It's kind of funny how much less time it takes to train for Olympic then it was for 1/2IM. After all of the 4 hour rides and 3 hour runs that I did for Kahuna, this just seems so much more low key. I need to enjoy this now because this will all change soon as we start to ramp up our distances in a few months.
