good week in review, 6 miler to start new week

I had a good week. Biked 104 miles and ran 17.4. Swam only 2200, but we will keep that a secret ;)

Looking back at my logs over this past year, this past week (minus the swimming) would have been my most voluminous week all year. Uuuuhhhhhhh, wha?

How is this possible?!?!?!? I am in the freaking off season right now just taking it easy and my legs feel perfectly fine right now as I am typing this.

Well, the answer is: I biked 4 times and I ran 4 times. Thats it. No mystery. No magic involved. I just biked and ran 1 more time each than normal.

Here are my run/bike workouts:

		BIKE	BIKE TIME	BIKE AVG	RUN	RUN TIME	RUN AVG
Sunday	11/15/09	29.04	01:34:28	18.4446	5	00:46:24	00:09:17
Monday	11/16/09	18.04	01:07:35	16.0158
Tuesday	11/17/09				3	00:28:25	00:09:28
Wednesday	11/18/09	18.1	01:06:31	16.3267
Thursday	11/19/09				5	00:48:01	00:09:36
Friday	11/20/09				4.39	00:39:06	00:08:54
Saturday	11/21/09	39.07	02:07:30	18.3859
TOTALS		104.25	05:56:04	17.29	17.39	02:41:56	00:09:19

So right here explains what happens when you add a 4th day of running and biking. For me, I actually felt better and I put in more training load. I also noticed that I was taking it super easy on the runs. This week was a good accidental test that is really going to shape next year.

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And this morning I went out for a 6 miler to start week #3 of my half marathon training. Talk about perfect weather!!! 53 degrees, lots of sun, and no wind. Ran an 8:55 pace and just felt great......after the 3 mile mark. You can check it out here:

http://connect.garmin.com/player/19429385