Ironman training week 3

Got off to a slow start this week. Weather, tiredness, back bugging me, etc. But a solid week overall.

I knew I'd been forgetting something on these entries. Some sort of summary!

Monday: rest day

Tuesday

Plan was to go to the pool for 5:30 am, but it snowed overnight and I didn't want to deal with driving in whatever slippery mess might be out there (the city pretty much sucks at dealing with small overnight snowfalls - their philosophy seems to be to just wait until after morning rushhour to plow, when half of it will be gone from everyone driving through it). So I went back to bed. I regret nothing.

Run: 8k

Short 8k at lunch. Hooray for Hamilton and clearing the multiuse paths (reasonably) well!

Zwift: 37.5k

*insert Zwift picture that looks like all the other Zwift pictures here*

(I forgot to take a picture and I'm too lazy to screenshot the one on Strava)

Usual toddle around Zwift until I got bored and it was time to put the kids to bed.

Wednesday

Swim: 2000m

Made it to that 5:30 swim and did a modified version of this 30 minute workout to make it 2000m. And of course it actually took 45 minutes because this book is designed for much faster swimmers.

Weights

Usual weights in the evening when I just couldn't deal with the thought of running outside in -17. I dunno, I'm a total wimp this winter. Weights went really well, even if I did have to share the weight room with three whole other people. I guess that's what passes for a January crowd at my gym!

Thursday

Brick: 1 hour Zwift; 9k run

Had many good intentions of doing various things during the day, but nothing actually happened until I got on Zwift after dinner. This winter weather has just been exhausting to deal with.

When I get the sprint jersey I do remember to take the screenshot!

Anyway, an hour on Zwift and then I knew I had to run, which I wasn't super enthusiastic about
because have I mentioned how the cold weather was just really getting to me this week? BECAUSE IT HAS.

So I did a complete clothing change (struggling out of a wet sports bra and then into a clean one is quite the production) and went out to run at least 30 minutes.

Slightly crazy eyes going on here. It was late, OK?

And then I got weirdly into a zone and the next thing I knew I was 4.5 km from home. It was a slow run but somehow I got completely into a meditative headspace and ended up doing the full 9k without even really feeling like I did anything at all. Wish I could bottle that! It was like I just shut off my brain and floated through the run on auto pilot.

Friday

Run: 8k

Easy run at lunch. Enjoying the seasonal temperatures. It is so much more pleasant to run at -1C. I was, however, feeling a little stiff and off overall, which could have been the brick the night before (given I haven't done one of those for months...), but also probably at least partially due to getting an adjustable desk and spending some of my time at work standing instead of sitting. In the long run I think that's going to be very beneficial, but right now it's taking a bit of getting used to. I probably overdid the amount of time I spent standing this week just due to the novelty.

Lookit me all professional and shit

Swim: 2700m

Did the advanced workout. Hated life a great deal by the time I got to the final 2 100s.

Quiet evening at the pool. Going to bed with goggle marks is super sexy, right?

Saturday

Run: 18k

Glowing pink shirt for early morning visibility. That thing is crazy bright.

Up ridic early to fit this in before kiddo #2 had a free throw competition. IT WAS ALMOST WARM YOU GUYS. Would have been nice to run a little later and really been able to enjoy the sunrise, but I'll take what I can get!

Weights

Deadlift PR at the gym. Getting so close to full plates on those! (those are 35 pounds - I also did a set with added 5s, so another week and I should be up to full 45 plates).

It was probably the socks.

Sunday

Zwift: 63k

Empty Zwift roads are boring

This was a super tedious ride. My internet connection had gone all wonky which was messing up my Zwifting - ended up alone for most of the ride, which is really boring, especially when you also can't get Netflix to work. Once I finished the ride I confirmed with the rest of the family that the internet was being weird and we rebooted the modem, which fixed it. Wish I'd thought to do that when I was having so much trouble logging in to Zwift 2 hours earlier! Anyway, it got done.

Brick: 5k

Jazz hands because the week is DONE.

This felt like total garbage. But it's miles in the bank. So excited to do more bricks. Ha.

Decent week altogether - short a swim this week, but that's OK. My husband wasn't feeling well Sunday and I didn't want to go to the pool and be uncontactable for that long leaving him home sick with the kids. Life takes priority over training.

(let's all cross all fingers and toes I don't catch the flu from him, because after last winter, I am so not interested in going through that again).

On to the next week, where I'm going to try and win a Cervelo from Zwift and enjoy my last week of no Trainerroad freedom.