Weekly Workout Totals 02/09/2009-02/15/2009

Someone on Slowtwitch asked why so many triathletes blog. I responded in there, mostly to reaffirm what a big, giant dork I am since I post training totals and stuff. But this blog ain't all about training totals, is it? Things will get spiced up no doubt once winter is over and I'm out riding and causing general mayhem (or at least I hope to be) and wearing less clothes. Until then, I still don't care if anyone reads this, and I still don't care what anyone thinks who reads this, I don't mind the people who stop by only for the pics, and I'm going to keep on writing as long as something strikes my fancy.

I had a solid training week last week and felt pretty much back on my game after a race. It was interesting leading the bike workout on Wednesday night and then doing a track workout Thursday morning--not really enough recovery time in between 2 key workouts! But I only had to swim on Friday, so no worries. I just did not feel great on the bike on Saturday, which I'm owing to antibiotics that I'm taking for a minor thing, but the brick run was solid. Yesterday I ran 1:40 and ran strong and well, and did an easy :50 swim afterwards that felt great.

This week will be a "normal" training week; i.e., I am not moving workouts around like I did last week, and I've got another race on Sunday. This time, they put me in a wave with the top 10 women overall, so at some level I am going to get my ass handed to me! That's OK--it will be seriously motivating to be up against the talent. I may even beat 1 or 2 of them! Plus, at this race, the bikes are in the center of the 8-laps-to-the-mile running track, which makes it even more exciting. I'm going to get my lucky Brazilian wax the day before because thinking about that pain while racing makes it seem not so bad!

In other news, my back is feeling pretty darn great now. I am pronouncing myself healed! And I'm over the URI I had for about 1.5 weeks, and starting tomorrow, I'm off the antibiotics (which mess with my gut and also sometimes make me drowsy). So putting all that together with my (hopefully) third solid training week in a row, and the stars could be aligning for me to have a great race this Sunday. I'm already looking forward to the post-race festivities--food, massage, beers, a nap, more food, more beers. Or maybe champagne...depending on whether I can take my AG again and stay in the top 10 overall. And maybe hit 7 miles on the bike. Why do I keep raising my own celebratory stakes? Why not?

Here's what I did last week:

Weekly Workout Totals	02/09/2009-02/15/2009 This week's totals are sponsored by the awesome feeling of being 100% healthy!
Swim:	9200 yards (5.22 miles) in 3.25 hours; 23% of weekly workout time; approx. 1138 calories burned Canadian: 8412.48 meters
Bike:	Approx. 102.15 miles in 5.43 hours; 39% of weekly workout time; approx. 2774 calories burned; Total TSS=323 Canadian: 164.39 kilometers
Run:	Approx. 25.94 miles in 3.97 hours; 28% of weekly workout time; approx. 1797 calories burned Canadian: 41.75 kilometers
Strength:	1.4 hours; 10% of weekly workout time; approx. 350 calories burned
All Sports:	Approx. 133.31 miles in 14.05 hours; approx. 6059 calories burned Canadian: 2.13 kilometers
Sleep:	7.75 hours avg./night
Stretching:	2.13 hours. Massage: 1 hours