Of Mice and Marathons

Lunch: 15.5-mile fat bike ride. HR 136.

Much better handling today than last week. Learned a few things about riding more technical sections. A beautiful fall day.

PM: 4 miles w/ Megan, averaged 9:44. HR 132.

A perfect fall afternoon to run. Almost 70 and sunny.

Lunch: 7.2 miles, averaged 8:19. HR 145.

PM: 6.8 miles treadmill, averaged 8:40. HR 149.

Strides on PM run.

Weights: Tri Press: 3 x 20 @ 50#; bicep curls 3 x 20 @ 35#; 3 x 20 @ 25#; Captain's chair

Lunch: 11 miles, averaged 8:27. HR 145.

Stridlek Workout: 2 (8 x 50") w/ Equal Jog Back and 4' Job Between Sets

Solid workout. Managed between 5:35-5:05 w/ most @ 5:15-5:20. Very windy, but was able to set it up with a partial cross/tail wind. Stride felt good even though legs were tired when I got up.

PM: 4.3 miles w/ Megan, averaged 10:03. HR ~125-126.

HR off first mile. Pretty much any watch on the market seems to be crap. Or my standards are too high. It's been mostly good so far.

Lunch: 8.7 miles, averaged 9:48. HR 130.

PM: off.

Took a nap when I got home. Got up, had a snack, and then fell back asleep in the chair with a horror movie on in the background with Oliver sleeping in my lap.

AM: 12.4 miles, averaged 8:32.

Looks like we are riding tonight. It appeared the Thursday Night Ride was done for the season, but maybe this is the last one. If not this week then definitely next as we go into Iceman and fat biking season.

PM: 42.6-mile ride. HR 150.

Rode to the ride and had Megan pick me up after we ate and had drinks. Beautiful fall ride. On the cooler side. Could have dressed a touch warmer, but wasn't getting too cold until the end. Predictably my legs didn't have anything on the late climbs given that I ran for an hour and forty-five minutes in the morning.

Lunch/PM: 22 miles, averaged 7:36. HR 160.

5-4-3-2 Mile Sets

Scheduled for 14 miles of steady miles with 20-22 total. I ended up doing this workout because I wanted to rachet down the pace a bit to see where my fitness is. I planned on the last set being 1 mile, but figured I didn't want to push my luck as I did 4+ hours of training yesterday. Workout went quite well considering my legs were pretty dead.

7:25, 7:28, 7:24, 7:21, 7:17 (7:23 average; HR 160.4 average)

7:03, 7:12, 7:01, 6:55 (7:03 average; HR 166.3 average)

6:45, 6:49, 6:43 (6:46 average; HR 171 average)

6:42, 6:38 (6:40 average; HR 172 average)

Lunch: 8.3 miles, averaged 10:28. HR 125.

PM: 3.1 miles on the treadmill. HR 124.

Weights: Tri press 3 x 20 @ 50#; Bicep curls 3 x 20 @ 35#; Shoulder press 3 x 20 @ 25#; Rows 3 x 20 @ 35#; Pull downs 3 x 20 @ 60#

Night: AIS, PT, and other stretching