TGIF

Well it is Friday and should be a fun weekend. Tomorrow is Tri-Shark, a sprint but with a ton of folks from the club participating. It is about two hours away and I will be getting up in the morning and driving down. It looks like I will be heading out sometime around 4:30 am, so definitely going to need some coffee.

This week has flown by, I have been extremely busy at work and have gotten in three very morning workouts this week which led to me crashing last night and heading to bed before most senior citizens.

Tuesday I opted to go in and do the longer Computrainer class instead of riding by myself on the trainer at the crack of dawn. This class seems pretty easy when you look at the workout on the board but it is a bit harder than it seems and totally different than the usual Computrainer classes I have been doing lately.

The class was as follow and surprisingly the legs felt pretty good:
15 minute Warm Up various levels
30 minutes at 75 % (240 watts) holding the last 3 minutes over 300
5 minute recovery
20 minutes at 85% (265 watts) holding the last 3 minutes over 300 with the last minute at 400+.

I usually ride my tri bike at the Computrainer classes but took the road bike to mix things up, it is amazing how much different these two are to ride.

I followed up Tuesdays class with a swim at night which was fun as a junior high swim team was practicing at the same time so occasionally it gave me someone to compete with besides the interval on the clock.

Wednesday mornings class was a the usual shorter set higher wattage class and it hurt a lot more than Tuesdays class or maybe due to Tuessday's class but fun none the less.

We did the usual warm up for 15 minutes than 5 x 5 minutes at 105% with a two minute recovery in between. The two minutes was barely enough to recover more like a quick pause. I really felt this class in my legs later in the day, I ended up taking the afternoon off work as I had to pick my sister and kids up at the airport but made sure to hit the pool before hand.

The one problem I have been dealing with this week is how to handle the sprint race compared to training, I intentionally did not sign up for a lot of races this summer as I don't understand the "A" race philosophy. If I signed up I am going all out and will not do the whole training day race, but trying to balance this weeks race, with training and going into the Kansas 70.3 next weekend I want to make sure I have a solid week of training but still have something left for the races.

Next week should be interesting balance as I don't really have a plan yet for my training week but definitely have a plan for the race outlined and want to make sure I hit it.

Also this weekend is the Winfield Crit races which should be fun to go watch so if anyone is around and wants to ride up there let me know, I will be leaving sometime early Sunday morning on my bike.