This week was suppose to be a recovery week. For some reason I think the recovery week brings it own challenges as your body is not use to the multiple days off and we all know everyone is a creature of habit.
So on paper this was a recovery week, in reality not so much. I did two time trials this week mainly because they were previously scheduled.
A little background, I signed up for a individual TT at Endure It!, a 16 mile course ride all out. Sounded like fun at the time and should break up the monotony of the regular indoor clasess and the boring the winter brings. Come to find out that this is also the week of threshold testing, should of saw it coming as we test the first week of the month. Note taken look beyond next week.
The upside of both of these is I did much better than I really expected on both. The 16 mile TT finished in a little under 46 minutes with an average of 266 watts. Was very satisified with that and had absolutely nothing left in the tank at the end.
Monday and Tuesday were completely off, not even swimming. So Wednesday morning was threshold testing. Was told I could go ahead and do it if I wanted to or not my call. As I had just done a TT on Sunday, but I really wanted to see where I was in a true comparison from the previous two months. With having the prior two days off the body felt good. I ended up testing at 283 watts, up from 270 watts in January and up from 256 in December. Very happy with the progess, I really think to see the progress you need to be doing two classes a week. Will we see if 300 is in the cards before we hit the roads this spring.
The rest of the week has been pretty normal, Wednesday had a quick 30 minute run at lunch followed by a normal masters class on Thursday. Masters I felt a little off though, even though my times were still around normal the body just felt off. Not swimming for a week does that to me but usually by mid to end of class things are coming around. We did a ton of kicking which I hate and could defiantely feel the legs from the TT's.
This weekend should be fun. Tomorrow starts with the Computrainer class at 6:00 am, and I am doing a indoor ride for two hours to help support the ALS Spin-a-thon from 10 to noon so that may hurt a little. The plan for the two hours is nice and easy and enjoy the ride. Two hours on the trainer is like riding for four outside in my opinion so .
Sunday I am hoping to get outside and run as it is awesome here. Sunny in the 30 and 40's and maybe 50 in the near future. If that is the case I am going for at least a 60 minute run to enjoy the weather and enjoy being off the treadmill.
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