Mattb1's Blog

Chicago,IL 
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August 1

Bike
  • 50m
  • 12.00 miles
  • 14.40 Mi/hr

Rode from my house to Oak Street Beach and back for swimming. Rode my old mountain bike.

Swim
  • 34m 08s
  • 1936.00 yards
  • 01m 45s /100 yards

Swam in the lake. I GPS'd it and it is .55 miles from the first ladder in the water to the second turn around bouy.

July 31

Run
  • 1h 01m 08s
  • 7.02 miles
  • 08m 42s /Mi

That run hurt. Not sure why it was such a struggle.

Bike
  • 1h 00m
  • 20.06 miles
  • 20.06 Mi/hr

CompuTrainer Intervals

July 30

Swim
  • 08m 17s
  • 500.00 yards
  • 01m 39s /100 yards

Was going to go 1500 today. Something is wrong with the pools heater. I stopped at the 500 yard mark and looked at the temp and the water was close to 90 degrees. I bailed on the rest of the swim.

July 29

Swim
  • 35m 18s
  • 2000.00 yards
  • 01m 46s /100 yards

400 Swim Warmup
500 Swim
400 Swim
300 Swim
200 Swim
100 Swim
100 Cooldown

I am losing my swimming shape quickly. Need to get into the water more.

Bike #1
  • 15m
  • 5.21 miles
  • 20.84 Mi/hr

VQ Warmup on CompuTrainer

Bike #2
  • 40m
  • 12.60 miles
  • 18.90 Mi/hr

Power Test at VQ. Was able to average 215 Watts for the ride. It was painful. I am getting out of shape quickly.

Strength
  • 20m

Lower Body and PT excercises

Swim this morning and tonight I start an 8 week Vision Quest cycling class.  I think tonight will be a power test.  If I can make it through the test without puking I'll be happy.  I haven't been on my bike much as evident by my logs.

July 28

Bike
  • 05m
  • 1.50 miles
  • 18.00 Mi/hr

Warmup at the gym

Strength
  • 25m

pushups, upper body, stretching

Was going to ride this morning, but the Cubs decided to play 13 innings last night and I didn't get to bed until midnight. 

July 27

Run
  • 23m 33s
  • 3.03 miles
  • 07m 46s /Mi

Quick run before going to the game.

Not sure what I'm going to do today.  I have Cubs tickets for tonight. I may try and get a quick 3 mile run in before the game.  Otherwise it will be another day off. 
 

July 26

Nothing today.  Was going to go ride, but woke up walked the dog and my wife and I decided to go get brunch instead.   I start a new bike class on Wednesday at Vision Quest.  They should kick my butt back into shape. 

mattb1's Training Log


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