Weeks 14 & 15 to Ironman Canada

A’hem, excuse me as I seem to have gotten a bit behind in my weekly training posts!  So, today, you get a twofer!  I had two solid weeks of training and am pretty proud to get all most of my workouts in.  I had to do some crafty rearranging due to spring break, a couple of days in Seattle, and the daughter’s cheer comp in Vancouver, BC.

Listed below are my workouts from my awesome coach, Daryl.

Monday, April 1st – REST – 

In Seattle with my daughter for a couple of days!!  Took the time to enjoy the sights and just be with her. 

Tuesday, April 2nd – REST –

2nd day in Seattle — so much fun!

Wednesday, April 3rd – SWIM (and a ride with the TRI group) –

45:00 – PACE CHANGE 200s:  200 easy WU. +++ 4×200 Steady on 10s rest 3×200 Mod-hard on 10s rest 2×200 Fast on 10s rest 200 Max +++ Cool Down.

(Oops. Totally missed the warm up 200.  And, I was so happy to have finished the “workout” in under 45 min, but OH NO! 200 short!  DANG!  Splits: 4:06-4:13-4:15-4:22 4:17-4:14-4:16 4:01-3:58 3:47.  Also met with the TRI group tonight for two loops around Lake Samish.  I went a little farther as I turned back to see that others were finishing too.  15.1 miles total.) 

Thursday, April 4th – RUN/BIKE/RUN –

20:00 – 10 min easy, 10 min steady.

1:00:00 – 5x10min continuous, as lap 1 easy, lap 2 and 3 steady, lap 4 and 5 sitting at the top of your mod hard zone, 10min easy.

10:00 -5min steady, 5min CD.

(Great run/bike/run – although I had to cut the bike short by 15 minutes to get daughter to cheer practice.  You might also notice my friend, Flat Stanley.  He came for a visit this past week!!)

Friday, April 5th – LONG BIKE/RUN –

3:00:00 – 60min easy, 90min steady, 30min tempo.

30:00 – Run off the bike for 30 minutes Easy and relaxed.

(Sufferfest on the trainer for 3 solid hours. Worked on consuming 3 bottles of electrolytes and gu every hour.  Legs felt a little mushy after pushing tempo last 30 min on bike, but went easy and didn’t pay attention to pace, just went by feel.  Ran 3.7 miles for an average pace of 8:06.)

Saturday, April 6th – SWIM

1:00:00 – 4×300, 4×200, 4×100 – each on 10s rest – seek to get quicker within each group of 4 and across the entire workout. CD if time left. Pull the 4×100 with paddles/pb. Focus on high elbow, anchoring and holding the water. Pull past the anchored hand.

(300s:: 6:18-6:18-6:28-6:21 200s:: 4:12-4:18-4:17-4:10 100s w/ paddles &pb: 2:04-2:01-2:01-2:01 3×100 cool down w/ pb: 2:03-2:02-2:04)

Sunday, April 7th – LONG RUN –

1:30:00 – 30min easy, 30min steady, 20min mod hard, 10min easy.

(Beautiful run along the Vancouver Sea Wall.  Ran just a tad over time for 11.5 miles.  Average pace of 8:16.) 

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Overall Training Hours completed for week Fourteen:  9 hours  01 minutes

 18.98 miles of running

 82.6 miles of biking (estimate)

 2.67 miles of swimming

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Monday, April 8th – SWIM – 

45:00 – 6×50 easy on 10s rest 4×75 25 Easy, 25 Mod-hard, 25 Steady on 10s rest +++ 4×400 on no more than 15s rest Goal is to Descend the set paddles/pb last 2×400. +++ Cool Down

 (This took me 50 min.  And! Those paddles are a killer!!  WHEW!) 

Tuesday, April 9th – RUN/BIKE/RUN –

20:00 – Build easy to steady, then directly into the bike ride.

1:00:00 – 10min easy, 3×12/3 minutes continuous as 12 minutes Steady then 3 minutes Mod-hard, 5min easy.

10:00 – Easy run off the bike.

(Great session!  First 20 minutes – ran 2.4 miles for an average pace of 8:20.  Great trainer session.  Followed by 1.2 miles on 2nd run for an average pace of 8:20.) 

Wednesday, April 10th – TRI GROUP RIDE –

Coach had planned 1:30:00 brick of ride/run/ride/run/ride/run – but I didn’t get to this.   3x[20min bike, 10min run] nonstop. First round easy, 2nd steady, 3rd top of steady.

(Instead, I rode twice around Lake Samish with the TRI group and up Summerland hill.  Total mileage was 13.4 in 54 minutes.) 

Thursday, April 11th – SWIM –

45:00 – CSS 12 x 100s: 4×100 WU, 12×100 at CSS pace with 10sec recovery, 4×100 CD.

(2000 yards in 45 min — woot!  Although, I will say that 10 sec rest felt like not enough. My splits: WU: 1:59, 2:41 (had to adjust goggles), 2:07, 2:13 12×100 at CSS: 1:59, 1:58, 1:58, 1:59, 1:59, 2:00, 2.00, 2:01, 2:00, 2:02, 2:00, 1:56 CD: used pull buoy. Did continuous and slow 2:04, 2:03, 2:04, 2:03)

Friday, April 12th – LONG RUN –

1:30:00 – 3×25 minutes on 5 min recovery – start by targeting Steady with Easy recoveries; progress to Mod-hard with Steady recoveries. Build into the first 25min segment easy to steady.

 (11.9 miles in 1:33:51 for an average pace of 7:54.)

Saturday, April 13th – SWIM, then added RUN with TRI group

30:00 – 6×200 on 20s rest, paddles/pull buoy as 150 easy, 50 tempo.

(1400 yards total as I did a couple extra for cool down in the time I had left. Time left?  Whoa!!! New concept — I like it!!  As for the run, this morning I coached the TRI group.  We met at Arne Hanna and braved the mix of snow and rain.  We worked on some drills after a 10 min warm-up and then ran an out and back.  3.7 miles total.)

Sunday, April 14th – BIKE/RUN/BIKE/RUN/BIKE/RUN –

(Since I missed this awesome workout earlier in the week, I wrote to my coach and asked if I could include it with today’s long bike/run.  50 min ride with 10 min run x 3.  He thought it was a great idea – so that’s what I did.  I ended up about 30 min short on the week, but overall, it was a great training session and I could really feel the burn in my legs.  I aimed to get faster with each run, even on tired legs and that’s what I did!  Very happy with that.  I also included a 10 min HARD interval in each 50 min ride session to simulate climbing.  Quads were on FIRE!!  First triple of the year!!) 

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Overall Training Hours completed for week Fifteen:  9 hours  35 minutes

22.95 miles of running

 76.4 miles of biking (estimate)

3.19 miles of swimming

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