Consistent Again

I had another fairly consistent week. It was a recovery week so the workouts were a bit lighter. I did have some really cool highlights though. On Wednesday, I had one hell of a run when it was about 65 and lightly raining and it was such a great run. It felt good and there were lots of puddles to splash in. On Friday, I had a brick workout that my coaches gave me and it was a fast one. I got my heart rate up to 180bpm which is about 7bpm higher than I have seen it in awhile. That's very good because I need it.

Weekly run mileage: 16 miles
Asics mileage: 158.5 miles

More Consistent

After struggling with consistency all summer, last week was a decent week. By that, I did a workout on every day that I was suppose to do a workout. I didn't do exactly what I was suppose to do, but I did something every day that I was suppose to do. Also, I started doing yoga again which I enjoy.

Weekly run mileage: 15.5 miles
Asics mileage: 142.5 miles

14 Miles

14 miles this week. Not bad compared to 10 miles last week. The heat has broken here in Austin and makes it a lot more tolerable to workout. Also, it has been raining off and on for the last 5 days which is wonderful! I got back into the pool this week by swimming on Thursday morning at Circle C with T3. It was a good swim. I need to work on my arm/shoulder a bit before I start ramping up a lot.

Weekly run mileage: 14 miles
Asics mileage: 127 miles

Austin Triathlon

I usually give pretty long race report but I'll try to keep this one a bit short. The Austin Triathlon was last Monday and I think it is the best race that High Five Events and Jack and Adam's puts on. Just a great race that is much better than CapTex. I hadn't felt in shape all year and even though I've been trying to train for Oly races, I haven't been as consistent due to the heat. I decided to try to switch to the sprint from the Oly 4 days before the race and I did. I didn't want to die during the race.

My swim was actually pretty damn good. I call it a very good tactical swim since I was able to follow feet almost the entire time and had a very good situational awareness during the race. I was able to hop from one set of feet to another set of feet that was better for me to follow. At one point, I was on 1 set of feet that was going a bit too slow for me. I saw to my right by about 4m a line of two guys that were going a bit faster and had a better line in the water. I ramped it up a gear and got over to them. Actually, I encroached on the trailing guy and if he was willing to fight for that space, I would've given it to him. Instead, I bumped him a bit and he let me have the front guy's feet. Awesome! I got tied up in the prior age group a bit which was tough but I got through it.

T1 was awesome for me because I actually ran through it and passed a few people. I had the fastest T1 of my AG. The bike is deceivingly not easy. There are two longish but not steep climbs that hurt some people and 1 short and steep hill. I pushed it a bit too hard on the bike and I knew it going into the run. I had 8th in my AG for T2 and then the run was horrible as usual. I really need to work on my T2 because I got caught up a bit by putting socks on and lost about 10-15s because of it. I was 22nd on the run (oh, I was 3rd on the bike) and finished with a time of 1:27:41 which was for 3rd place in my age group! I was totally not expecting that but I'll take it.

Swim: 13:11/4th/1:53
T1: 2:10/1st
Bike: 45:56/3rd/21.94
T2: 1:30/8th
Run: 24:52/22nd/8:01

Last Week

It's Saturday and I'm talking about last week. Long story short is that I had an OK week. I didn't work out for 3 days because life got in the way, but I did run 10 miles total.

Weekly run mileage: 10 miles
Asics mileage: 113 miles