Hard to believe that January and February are in the books and my first race of the 2013 season is only a few weeks out. Training has been going pretty well. My late 2012 calf problems seem to be resolving and my run is slowly building back up to where it was in November when the calf strain happened.
January:
Swim: 52,650 yards 16 hours 32 minutes
Bike: 381.01 miles 17 hours 56 minutes
Run: 59.18 miles 8 hours 35 minutes
Definitely a swim focus in January. Lots of hard intervals on the trainer for the bike and a slow build on the run.
February:
Swim: 38,200 yards 12 hours 27 minutes
Bike: 452.04 miles 21 hours 8 minutes
Run: 78.37 miles 11 hours 23 minutes
Feel like I have plateaued with the swim after some nice improvement in January. More hard work on the bike with steadily increasing long intervals at 10-15 watts above what will be goal watts for Galveston. This past Saturday was 3X35 minutes at 230+ watts on 5 minutes easy recovery and for next weekend it will be 4X30 minutes. Great workouts to get mentally and physically ready to maintain a hard but sustainable effort through the 56 mile bike. The run is returning but the right calf still is sketchy and will require some ART I'm afraid.
Hopefully March will be a good month with no setbacks and lots of good training.....as well as more frequent blog posts.
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