Of Mice and Marathons

AM/Lunch: 2 hours 30'. 43 miles @ 17.1 MPH. 193W. HR 125. 

Legs were worked over and heavy, but felt better throughout the ride. 

PM: 120' on the trainer. 219W. HR 129.

Good ride. Did the Elevation Evaluation route on Zwift, which was a bit more of an effort than I wanted for an endurance day, but it was fine. 

PM: 1 hour 53'. 31.9 miles @ 16.9 MPH. 197W. HR 126.

Tried to get up early and run the last two days, but just wasn't feeling it. Maybe tomorrow morning as Megan is going to take the boys for a bit so I can get a few things done. 

Good ride. Needed to get out. Boys were challenging today, not terrible, just kind of a long day and they were getting into everything and not listening, which is typical. Felt better to get outside. I was planning to do a scheduled 60' recovery ride on the trainer, but I needed some air. 

PM: 120' on the trainer. 215W. HR 131. 

6 x 3' @ Vo2 Max

I decided to do the workout on the trainer as I could hear thunder in the distance while I was at the park with the boys. I didn't want to get stuck in it. I ended up doing my originally planned workout even though the program suggested to cut back and do a 2-hour endurance ride, or something shorter. I decided I felt okay and got it done. The workout went fine, but I find this sort of work challenging even though it is only 3' @ a time. Kind of like really honest 5k work running. 

I averaged about 320 watts. One of the intervals was slightly low given that I kept misfiring the lap button. 

It's been a crap week for running as I just haven't had the motivation to get out of bed early. Cycling is going quite well though. I might have to scrap Beach to Beacon if I can't get in some workouts or just run it to run it, which I really don't want to do. I have't run since last Thursday. 

PM: 3 hours 4'. 57.6 miles @ 18.8 MPH. 216W. HR 147.

Thursday Night Dirt!

Planned on doing B group to keep things lighter, but it was just one group and of course it didn't take long for that to separate out. I felt good, so I just rolled with it. I did a fiar amount of pulling and felt quite strong. It was a really good ride. 

Loop Data: 29.6 miles in 1:24:25. 21 MPH. 241W. HR 158.

AM: 12.6 miles, averaged 9:30. HR 9:30.

2 hours recovery to easy aerobic. Although of course a 2-hour run, even as slow as you can go, is not recovery. Just felt good to zone out and lap one of my two-mile loops around the neighborhood across from the middle school. The run felt very good. I haven't run in a week, but I don't feel like I have missed a step. Cycling keeps me strong. I lost 7 pounds of water weight. It was just under 80 degrees and slightly breezy without too much humidity.

I half thought of starting a running streak, but I don't know if I will be able to sustain that. Just trying to find goals that aren't race or time specific. Need to figure out whether I want to get some workouts in before Beach to Beacon or just start ramping mileage back up and see what happens and look toward fall. Thinking about a flat 50k in mid-October but I am sure this will change a million times. I do enjoy marathon training and 50k training is essentially marathon training and it might make for a good practice build up to decide if I ever want to run a standalone marathon ever again. It has been a full decade and if I don't do it soon, I likely won't, which is fine. 

Lunch/PM: 5 hours. 87.5 miles @ 17.5. 191W. HR 137. 

Long ride. It was very hot, so I brought a lot of fluids and added some extra electrolytes to my carb mixes. I went through the 2L in my hydration pack in about two hours and my three 750ml bottles in about the next 2 hours. Stopped at a local gorcery store and filled up the three bottles with water. I took about 110 grams of carbs from gels and I think 500 grams from carb mixes. I probably should have taken my other two gels on schedule to stayed topped off, but with it being warm, syrupy stuff is hard to want to ingest. 

Felt generally good if somewhat tired here and there. Kept everything very much in the endurance zone as scheduled.