Weekly Workout Totals 05/12/2008-05/18/2008

If you've been keeping up with me, you know I've been puttin' the hurt to training all over the Chicagoland area lately. And now I am able to absorb all that lovely pain. The every-3-weeks racing was a big challenge to recover from and then keep going, and then I backed that up with a big week of biking followed by a big week of running. So this week was a relatively "normal" Ironman build week, which gave my body the chance to see what it could do in a relatively rested state.

And the swimming, biking and running gods said it was good! My legs were iffy through Wednesday, but then they came roaring back for Thursday's long run and then Friday through Sunday were Cracktacular. I feel like I'm hitting a peak just in time for Triple T.

Waking up this morning, I feel awesome! I'm not even tired or fatigued or sore. I'm sure that after I swim my body will begin to remember what happened last week, but that's OK...between now and Friday it's all shorter, easier, taper-y workouts--well, except for that hard brick workout tomorrow and that 5K running stuff on Wednesday :) I mean, other than those workouts.

So here's how last week went down. Look for the subliminal messages!

Weekly Workout Totals	05/12/2008-05/18/2008 This week's totals are sponsored by animals whose name ends in the letter 'X': fox, lynx, oryx, ox, addax, hyrax, ibex, volvox, esox, lummox, minx, sphinx, phone sex
Swim:	11000 yards (6.24 miles) in 3.85 hours; 20% of weekly workout time; approx. 1347 calories burned Canadian: 10058.4 meters
Bike:	Approx. 160.42 miles in 9.17 hours; 49% of weekly workout time; approx. 4582 calories burned; Total TSS=569 Canadian: 258.17 kilometers
Run:	Approx. 32.11 miles in 4.84 hours; 26% of weekly workout time; approx. 2185 calories burned Canadian: 51.68 kilometers
Strength:	1.02 hours; 5% of weekly workout time; approx. 255 calories burned Canadian: some amount of metric tonnes or is that British?
All Sports:	Approx. 198.77 miles in 18.88 hours; approx. 8369 calories burned Canadian: 319.89 kilometers
Sleep:	7.36 hours avg./night Canadian: I have no recollection of having slept with a Canadian.
Stretching:	2.22 hours. Massage: 0 hours