I had a fairly light training week after the race in Boise, the biggest workout was going to be a 4 hour ride on Saturday. Throughout the week I felt like I was bouncing back & in a good place physically. This all changed when I started feeling sick Friday evening. Saturday morning I bailed on my open water swim & slept in a little. After breakfast I headed out on the bike & didn’t make it too far & ended up sleeping from about 1pm on Sat till 10am Sun.
The crud ended up postponing what was going to be my first big Ironman build week & replaced it with another recovery week. I was told to keep my HR below 130 during training & to get a lot of sleep. After months of focused training two light weeks in a row felt really strange but needed to bounce back. This past weekend I was still on the 130 HR ceiling but as of today (Monday) I’ve been given the ok to increase effort throughout the week.
Now I start the build Ironman focused building, volume is going to increase as well as thinks like double run days. Jonathan (coach) says we’ll be putting the “grumpiness” factor to the test. The plan is to do two solid weeks followed by one lighter week to recover, this will be the M.O. till we get to a three week tapper. (I’ve already been warned that the tapper will still consist of lots of hard work)
As of tomorrow (Tuesday the 30th) Ironman Canada is 60 short days away…Still lots of work to be done!
