Rocketman: Gonna Fly Now!

Olney,MD 
Today
Moderate or heavy rain shower High 85FLow 66F
  • Temp: 70F
  • Hum: 83%
  • W: 0mph N
WEDNESDAY
Light rain shower
High 78F
Low 60F
THURSDAY
Sunny
High 80F
Low 59F
FRIDAY
Partly Cloudy
High 81F
Low 60F
SATURDAY
Sunny
High 83F
Low 62F

August 11

Swim
  • 16m 53s
  • 1093.61 yards
  • 01m 32s /100 yards

good, short, fast swim, last before Sunday's race

200wu: 3:48
2x100 fast: 1:39 (fastest 100 ever?)/1:45
4x50 fast: 48/50/49/50
12x25 fast: 22/24/23/24/23/24/24/24/24/24/23/24
100cd: 1:47

Bike
  • 33m 34s
  • 8.51 miles
  • 15.21 Mi/hr

easy does it

August 10

Bike
  • 34m 34s
  • 9.46 miles
  • 16.41 Mi/hr

10min warmup
2x: 2min hard/3min easy
10min cooldown

August 9

Run
  • 32m 46s
  • 3.05 miles
  • 10m 44s /Mi

felt a bit tight

1mi warmup zones 1&2
1mi sprints into zones 3&4 with zone 2 recovery
1mi cooldown zones 1&2

Sport #1
  • Core Training
  • 05m
Sport #2
  • Stretching
  • 05m

August 8

Swim
  • 40m 55s
  • 2405.95 yards
  • 01m 42s /100 yards

great swim!

250wu: 4:53

400 moderate: 7:51
2x50 fast: 0:47/0:50

300 moderate: 5:48
2x50 fast: 0:49/0:50

200 moderate: 3:47
4x50 fast: 0:50/0:51/0:51/0:51

2x100 easy/moderate: 1:56/1:51
4x50 fast: 0:49/0:52/0:52/0:51

250cd: 4:54

August 7

Run
  • 55m 08s
  • 5.01 miles
  • 11m /Mi

almost noon when I started; stupid time to run, but I spent the morning taking photos at the DuThe2 race. Not a bad run considering the heat and humididty

August 6

Bike #1
  • 15m 06s
  • 3.67 miles
  • 14.58 Mi/hr

warmup

Bike #2
  • 1h 19m 36s
  • 23.16 miles
  • 17.46 Mi/hr

great ride on the Oly bike course, but I think I was beyond race pace. Probably need to be closer to 1:22-1:24 for the race to still have legs for the run.

Bike #3
  • 26m 03s
  • 6.25 miles
  • 14.40 Mi/hr

cooldown

Assigned:
0.5hr warmup
1.0hr attack the hills
0.5hr cooldown

Actual:
15min warmup
1:19hr attack the course
25min cooldown

August 5

Run
  • 33m 28s
  • 3.04 miles
  • 11m /Mi

zone 1&2 easy run; slopped over into Z3 a couple times, but I thought for sure it was less than a minute total!

Sport #1
  • Core Training
  • 10m
Sport #2
  • Stretching
  • 05m

HillSlugger's Training Log


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