The Journey is the Destination
August 13
August 12
August 11
Peak Week BT 1
Ride in steady state HR. Last 15' in tempo HR. Go right into the run.
Nice evening for a ride. Thourghly enjoyed pushing the pace after spending so many months and miles time in my steady zone. Rode to Celina and back. Did a 20' tempo interval on the way out and a 20' tempo interval on the way back. Last 20' was in interval zone. Great ride. I like these BT workouts.
Peak Week BT 1
Run off the bike. Start easy in steady state pace. Build to finish at tempo pace.
Great run. Probably started a little to fast. Need to keep that pace in check early on. The last 15' was all tempo and interval pace.
Ready.
- Health data: Sleep: 4 Stress: 3 Soreness: 4 Fatigue: 4 Hours slept: 8 Overall Workout: 5
August 10
I'm helping Kristen coach a swim clinic tonight.
August 9
OWS
Open water swim at Peir 121 with Triple Threat. Good swim. Wasn't very fast but sighting was good.
Recovery
Easy ride after the swim. Led the middle group. Hung back with some of our newest members to make sure they didn't get lost. Nice ride.
Tonight Michele was looking over my shoulder at my BT blog. She saw the 3 Ironman logos in my blog. Then she asked why Buffalo Springs wasn't there. I said not an A race. Then it hit her: "That's 4 Ironman races this year. No wonder we're broke." Just wait until after IMKY when I start serious bike shopping.

- Health data: Sleep: 4 Stress: 3 Soreness: 3 Fatigue: 4 Hours slept: 7 Overall Workout: 3
August 8
Key Workout - Race Simulation
First hour steady state HR zone. Next 2 hours tempo pace. Last 30 minutes tempo to interval HR zone. Practice race day nutrition.
Go right into the run.
It was very windy. But, I felt good on the bike. Rode the Celina loop. The chip seal is still bad on 1385. Between the wind and the chip seal this was a mental beat down ride.
I felt thirsty on the bike. Drank as much as I could, but still felt thirsty. Dela and I were talking about this last week; that most of us are probably chonically dehydrated.
Decent ride. This ride did a good job simulated an IM bike leg.
Key Workout - Race Simulation
Run off the bike. Start slowly and build to steady state pace. After 30' steady state go into tempo pace. Hold tempo pace. Last 15' are fast tempo to interval pace.
This sucked...bad. I got off the bike feeling a little bloated and thirsty. Started running and felt OK, but not great. After about 20' I was feeling pretty normal. Kept drinking as much as I could. At about 45' I was back home. Not feeling very well and seeing stars. Doused myself with cold water. Continued on. Started a run/walk. At about 1 hour I called is quits.
I think several things led to this bad run. First, I don't think I'm recovered from my long run on Thursday. Second, I think I'm dehydrated. Very thirsty through out this ride. Third, I think the concentrated Infinit isn't working so well. I'm going to change up how I take it in. I'll have a concentrated bottle, but will mix it with plain water in my bike bottle instead of sipping the concentrate then drinking water.
- Health data: Sleep: 4 Stress: 3 Soreness: 2 Fatigue: 3 Hours slept: 8 Overall Workout: 1
August 7
Master's Swim
WU
300
4x150 10"RI 50 kick/50 quick drill/50 swim
Main Set
2x300 20"RI 150 mod/150 hard
2x150 20"RI 50 free/50 stroke/50 free
3x200 20"RI descend
200
300
4x150 10"RI 50 kick/50 quick drill/50 swim
CD
100
I swam the first session and half the second session. Next week I'm swimming both sessions. My legs were very tired due to my 18 mile run yesterday. I really felt the fatigue in my legs during the kick sets. But, the second set of kicks wasn't as tough.
- Health data: Sleep: 4 Stress: 3 Soreness: 3 Fatigue: 3 Hours slept: 7 Overall Workout: 3

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Long Run - steady state
Beautiful morning for a run. Ran out and back on Teel. Started slowly and built my pace to 8'/mi. Felt comfortable running at 8'. Nothing too exciting about this run other than I was happy to be out in nice weather. The sunrise was beautiful.