Week 28 Wrap-Up

Well, it’s now almost the end of Week 27, and I’m just now getting around to posting my Week 28 stuff—such is the way things have gone lately. All told, week 28 went well—no major complaints, and things were feeling good. My swimming continues to come along well—I took ~2 seconds off my 100 m pace during a workout that repeated one from a few weeks ago, and my strokes per length continues to be consistent at 17-18 spl. It helped that Jeremy and I ended up swimming together for the 12x100 m workout (the one where my pace improved)—we are both fairly competitive, and swimming together seems to make both of us push ourselves harder than what we would do separately. Unfortunately for my ego but great for him, Jeremy’s swimming has improved a LOT since last year…so I’ll add swimming to the areas where I should just know better and not try to keep up with the 25-year old guy—while it was great for my time, I was wiped when we got done.

The weekend workouts were good—Saturday was a beautiful (albeit still ~35 F) day, so my post-ride run was great. I opted to drag my butt out of bed early Sunday morning to get in my long run—not so fun as I got home late Saturday night, but it turned out to be a good thing as it SNOWED Sunday afternoon and I would’ve been fairly bitter had I needed to get my run in during the March snowstorm. Sunday afternoon, I went to a running clinic at the Bike Shop—as with the swim clinic I attended in December, Lauren Jensen led the clinic. We were actually supposed to go outside and do some drill work, but with the weather being like it was (again, SNOW), we just talked through a bunch of stuff. She laid out run training suggestions for the four different tri lengths for both those hoping to finish and those hoping to be competitive. One of the big things I need to keep in mind is how to get hill repeats (or something replicating a hill repeat) into my workouts—I feel like our training plan does a good job of working interval training into things, but it’s probably a good idea to find some hills and start training on them…bummer that I live in a ridiculously flat part of the country, but I’ve heard rumors of some decent hills in the area.

The realization is also sinking in that we’re now under 200 days until race day—not freaking out yet, but still, time is ticking by quickly. The good news—it’s getting closer to spring, which means Tack and I will soon be hitting the open road…

Here’s the roll-up for the week…

Swim: 2:45:00 / 7600 m
Bike: 4:43:14 / 76.06 miles
Run: 3:37:31 / 22.16 miles
Total: 11:05:45 / 102.94 miles