Week 9 Summary

820 TSS on 9:30.

Ran a 5k TT on Monday, it hurt but was more or less what I expected.

CP5 is falling, I haven't done any longer hard efforts, going to start on a weekly sufferfest episode with the aim of changing that.

Week 8 Summary

770 TSS on 9.1 hours of training ... CTL has risen to 76, the result of two solid weeks of work. Consistency is going to be key this year.

I'm enjoying the Wed evening runs with Runner's Choice, lots of opportunity to push the pace and very nice people as well. Run duration this week was 3h48m, in line with the current 20:40:60 BarryP stage.  One more week of that before the distances start to ramp up...

I'm reading "Run: The mind-body method of running by feel" by Matt Fitzgerald, which, somewhat ironically, is so far a long discussion of the various types of training plans elite runners follow. I suppose the twist is where he talks about the deviations they take from the plans, and why.

Last year at this time, I was working on a swim focus block, and running 4-5 times/week.

Week 7! Here we go again...

Weeks 1-2 were really just casual, exercise-when-feel-like-it ... the next four weeks were "getting ready to get ready to train". This is the first week of "getting ready to train", so far it feels good (as of Saturday afternoon). Last week, X was sick again, and we spent 4 days in the hospital, so there's a good indication of how badly things could go in any given week.

This week will top out at ~750TSS and 71CTL, but I don't feel shattered by any means. I'll aim to raise that CTL by 2-3 points / week, I'm really trying to just get week after week of consistent training in this year.

Week 48 Summary and Tour De Hans -- end of 2012!

534TSS over 7 hours.

Tour de Hans 100k, done, in the books ... nice day, stayed with the lead pack all the way to 80k, at which point, yup, you guessed it, stuck in a crash. I kept the rubber side down at least, ended up on a lawn, just TT'd the last 30 minutes. Ended up 6 minutes back, at 2:23:02.

So that's the end of the 2012 season, I think my decision to move to a single sport (biking) after July was the right one. Hopefully it'll make it easier to come back to triathlon with some biking strength in 2013.

2013 is going to be a quiet year where I spend time building fitness in prep for 2014. I'm going to take 4 weeks (October, more or less) and just swim occasionally, and run with the dog to build up some frequency (seeing as I haven't run since July).

Week 47 Summary

517TSS in 7:45

Two hard (but not long) rides Saturday and Sunday. Legs are buzzing.

Recovery calculation has been split into its own sheet, tweaked slightly to clean up output.

T pace in the pool was tested at 1:43/100min, got some work to do there, I notice the fatigue sets in earlier.

Week 46 summary

500TSS in 8.5 hours.

I'm still fighting a minor cold, same sort of annoying thing where I run out of gas at about 85% -- which is why Sunday's ride was short, and indoors, even though it was really nice outside...


I put together a spreadsheet restwise clone, mostly to track my awareness of where I am in terms of fatigue.

I'll set it up as a Google docs template soon.

Week 45 summary

496TSS on 9 hours.

Started swimming again this week, very casually, but with my new Garmin Swim. It's not bad, maybe 99 accurate, so that means that over the two workouts I had this week, it miscounted a couple laps. As it turns out, the fancy graphics (which are actually not that useful) only show up if you import through ANT Agent, if you just upload the .fit file, you only get the default time vs. pace chart.

Anyways, Traininpeaks gives you the part that is useful anyways, so no worries.

I stayed indoors on Tuesday for my ride (HHNF) instead of going to the WCC ride, totally killed myself. I then had three nights in a row of moderate drinking, and now am coming down with a cold. Healthy #fail. I could feel myself hitting the aerobic wall coming home from my 80k this morning (as I was being chased up a hill by a boisterous Mennonite bugger driver).

There are now three weeks until Tour de Hans, then some sweet, sweet rest.