Week ending 2/10

Quick Summary:

Swim- 3 sessions
Bike- 4 sessions
Run- 4 sessions

Mon 2/4

Afternoon run- quick little run to Duniway Track & back- 30-odd minutes

Eve Swim- This was again, a "whatever you look like" main set day. I've been in the pool every day since Friday, and by tommorow it will be five straight days in the water.

Whatever was 100m (not 100y, different pool tonight) on about 1.40-45 or 1.30-35 on 30 sec rest. This is good stuff, yesterday's set was the same and it's getting to be a pretty comfortable speed to punch in.

Tues 2/5

Early Evening Run, ran the Waterfront loop it was about 45min, nice night to run in the city.

Evening swim: Another "whatever set you like" night, which was mostly, drills, some paddle work w/big paddles which made me really work on putting the hands in the right spot, and plenty of kick boarding, which incidentally, I hate.

Wed 2/6

Afternoon Run; 53 minutes or so.. Just a nice steady run up Terwilliger.. My foot is feeling healed, I don't know what I did to tweak it, but it's feeling o.k. now

Eve bike- Came home, worked a bit more, had a sandwhich and rode the basebuilder Dvd.. Again, this is just a steady 55min ride w/very short breaks just pedaling a moderate to large-ish gear at about 190 - 200 watts..

Thursday 2/7

Run- Easy 32-33min run, Duniway as per the usual. Hit the soccer field on the way home, run a couple of laps.

Bike- Big Gear DVD; I cut out the squats and was not sore from it.. Lots of work in the 1 min power range, it's kinda old-school in approach but the big gears make it hard to generate the power easily; frankly, I think you could just find a cog in the middle of the cassette and work on 1min power alot more effectively, maybe I'm missing something?

Fri 2/8

Today I was thinking run & swim, but looked out the window, and never saw a clear moment, too rainy, even for me..

Swim- Early eve session.. Throat feels kinda weird, I think my kcals are bit low, plus, I think two Milwaukie's Best Ice at dinner may actually have a net negative effect, will cut back to one the next time I watch "Super Bad"

Main set was a couple 400m (not 400y).. so it's basically 40 seconds slower as compared to the 400 in yards.. 6.50, 6.55 or 6.10 and 6.15.. I think I can solo'd one at a hard fast pace well under 6min in yards..

I'm doing Beaver Freezer, and seeded myself at 7.10 for 500y so I should be fine.. For one thing, I'll share a lane with swimmers who I bet are sandbagging, real swimmers always do.. And I will just send off the wall right in the middle, get max draft.

Sat 2/9

Bike- Steady ride at Sauvie Island, 36.x miles.. 1hr 56min.. 185w avg. 19.5mph avg. Good ride today. Did this about a month ago and I was slower, put out less than normal avg. wattage for the ride and rode slower. Weather was clear-ish and about 50f-ish. I guess the other diff. is that I finished feeling good, not drained like last time.

I'm glad I could get outdoors!

Sunday 2/10

Bike Day

I went to the North American Handmade Bike Show "after party" last night w/some friends... It was not the industry party I expected, looks like every bike messenger in Pdx also knew about it. It was pretty cool though, I met a group of crazy Canadians who were fanatics about bikes who came all the way from some remote part of B.C. to salivate over the next ride they'd get..

Ended the evening on a calm, but late note.. I was a little wonky after being out past bed time, 1 am is a bit late for me, but kept it calm and had one drink only. Still, that's a tough combo for me to handle

I rounded up my friend L Dawg for a active recovery bike ride for me...

It was roughly hour and thirty min of steady pedaling.. Grabbed beer and burgers after to commisserate about future planning around seeking either a boyfriend (in her case) or a girlfriend (in my case)..

Truth be told, I don't ever seek them. I usually meet them through sports and I get to know someone beyond that shared context. So, there really is no strategy or plan here, at least on my end. I'm not sure there needs to be.

Had either a run or swim planned, but I got home, managed to get supremely relaxed and decided I was pretty satisfied with the hours I'd punched in this week.