Trying Hard in Tokyo

Rest and Recovery! Well not really.

Week 6 of my IM program was slated to be a rest week. But due me staying over on Ishigaki after the triathlon, I grabbed the opportunity to bump up my bike mileage by doing two long road rides. The ride on Monday was an easy one, with Tuesday being intense, fast and mainly aero. Ishigaki was great to ride around, with beautiful scenery and very quiet roads once out of the city/port part. Nearly rode around the whole island, just missed out by doing it all due to running out of time.

Last Sunday's work out was particularly taxing. In the morning I did a 2:15 hour LSD run in Yoyogi with the Namban crew, then a 2,000 easy swim followed by a 40 minute recovery run just on dark. It was really tough to get myself up for the second run, but it was done this way so as to lessen the chance of me picking up a running injury. After the run I finished the day off by doing an easy 30 min spin. And I slackened off a little from the 90 min spin on my program but I thought that the rides that I did early in the week would be more than enough. And I have promised myself that I will not slacken off with my training even though I have already won a slot at Kona in October. I must break 11 hours at IMJ!!

Week Ending April 22nd

Swim: 2 hours (2 swims - 2,700m + 2,000)
Bike: 14 hours (5 sessions- 2 x 3hrs road at Ishigaki + 90 min spin + 6 hrs Arakawa + 30 min spin)
Run: 5 hours ( 5 sessions - 40mins recovery + 10km intervals + 30 min brick + 2:15 LSD and 40 mins recovery run both on Sunday)

Total: 21 hours

This week and next will really be a bike focus weeks, with two long rides of 3 hours plus planned for the coming weekend. Running will be bricks/transition runs. And next week has the "Golden Week" hols which will allow me to get in some more solid training hours.

posted by Keren_m @ 2:45 PM