rode indoors and finished week 6 running

First the biking indoors...whatever

I tried to use my zones, but they are crap when riding on the indoor bike....i couldn;t get my heart rate above 120 ish...i really need to be outdoors to use them effectively. I remember when I did get outdoors that I was having the hardest time of the life keeping my heartrate BELOW a certain level that I had to work really HARD at to keep above.

Can't wait to get outside, which should be this sunday...maybe...the weather should be nice, but who knows about the roads. We got dumped on today with 6 inches of snow.

Now for the run, I felt like a machine @ times. I did 5 min walk, 25 min run, 5 mins walk. So no more walk running anymore. It is just strictly running from here on out.

got my heart rate zones

Altheus sent me my heart rate zones and VO2 max yesterday. Pretty cool stuff! So here goes:

Zone 1: 142-152
Zone2: 152-161
Zone3: 161-170
Zone4: 170-180
Zone5: 180-188

My VO2 max is 50.3 and I was generating 210 WATTS of powers at my max heart rate of 188.

swam a mile tonight

what the subject said. and I swallowed a mouth full of water on the last lap, dang! haha

so yeah, 72 laps, which is 1.0227272727272727272727272727273 miles, sorry.

i felt like i could keep going, but i needed to stop to save energy for tomorrow night, which will be 40 -60 mins on teh bike (using correct heart rate zones!) and then a 25 min non stop run.

Its supposed to snow/sleet all day tomorrow (come on! get warm!) but sunday is supposed to be around 40 and sunny. Hopefully the roads will be all better by then so i can get in ~48 miles.

had my anaerobic threshold test done

So finally the weather cooperated and I was able to get down to altheus and get my anaerobic threshold tested so that I can have some correct training zones. Unfortunately their printer was down and I still haven't received an email copy of the zones yet, so nothing to share. Its ok, I am not going to use the zones tonight as I worked pretty hard during the test.

I had a mask/ventilator put on my head and I breathed into it so that the computer system can monitor my oxygen in and CO2 out. All the while he would ask me everything 3 mins what exertion level I was at on a scale of 1 -10 then he would increase the resistence. By the end I was at a 10 and my max heart rate rose to a final number of 190. Funny how that number is nothing when I run. He mentioned that if you had aprox 5-10 more beats you can roughly get your max running heart rate, but its just an approximation but not worth it since running is not my specialty, hence why I tested on the bike.

It is recommended that I do the test again about 2 weeks before my big race for the season, which will be August 16th. That way I will know at what heart rate I should race at to achieve optimal performance.

Hey, let the numbers do the talking!

swim and week 6.2 run

Didnt want to kill myself 2nite with the swim, as I am going to try for a mile on thursday. So I did 50 laps in 45 mins. Im getting there but I am noticing that my form is not really that great. Funny how the more you swim the more you concentrate on your form....duh!

The run was good, 5 min walk, 10 min run, 3 min walk, 10 min run, 5 min walk. Felt great, can't wait to finish the full 3 miles in a couple of weeks AND i can't wait to get outdoors. I think attempting to do 3 miles indoors is gonna crush my motivation. I think I am gonna check out some warm weather running clothes. It doesnt seem all that bad and a lot of folks say that running out in the cold is a LOT easier than biking, cuz you dont have as much cold wind resistence hitting your body, plus your whole body is moving making you warmer.

I had my folks bring down my second bike over the weekend. Basically it has an awesome frame (aluminum, but as light as my carbon fiber bike (cuz the front and rear forks are carbon)), but the rest needs to be replaced cuz its still the leftovers from a crash that I had back in '99. I mean, everything works, just its time to replace some things, and UPGRADE!!! I am gonna do before and after pictures.

Tomarrwo night is my AT test, FINALLY....guess what, its supposed to snow again! blah...

did some (good) damage 2nite

did 1:38 tonight on the bike and run

bike was whatever

i felt good enough to start week 6 of coolrunning.com

was starving by the end...i mean REALLY starving

whatever, i felt like i made tons of progress tonight. My calves are sore...which is good

taking tomorrow off

or maybe a walk around the neighborhood; i haven't checked to see if they ever finished the running track down the road

swim and ran

My swim tonight sucked....i felt outa form and winded. I swam once last week and so far once this week. I can't believe my breathing has gone out the window this fast. I bought a kick board and tested it out....my kick sucks..

ok, enough mental garbage, the worst workouts are your best because they show REALLY show what you need to work out....MORE TIME IN THE POOL!

My run was going great, until with about 1-2 mins left i hit the emergency stop button by accident and couldn't get the f-ing dreadmill going again. MAN!

So I jumped to my left into the other dreadmill and got going again, doing and extra minute or so. Ah well. At least I finished week 5 of coolrunning.com

I signed up for the Herriman state park triathlong today for june 8th. That will prolly be my first for the season. Time to start looking into wet suits cuz the water is gonna be FREEZING! At least I will be swimming in fresh water....