TriVeggies

It’s a new week, friends! And I don’t know about you, but I intend to make it a good one. As with everything in life, I foresee a few bumps along the way, but I have no doubt I can navigate them. 😉 I wish you the same!

Before we get into what this week’s training plan holds, let’s take a minute to evaluate the past week. All in all I’d give it a solid B. I missed a weekday bike and my long run – the first due to timing, the second due to attending a baseball game yesterday! – but managed overall to get a nice blend of workouts in to adhere to the spirit, if not the letter, of the law. I definitely could do better, but I also could have done worse.

Now, coming into this week, there’s a bit of a bump in the road I need to keep an eye on. I think I might be on the cusp of a bit of overtraining. It came on pretty suddenly, over the past couple of weeks, and has made me snap to attention to try to combat it. I’ve faced overtraining once or twice before in my career and this is very similar: Heavy, sore legs for no reason, easy workouts that seem hard, hard workouts that seem impossible, no desire to train and so forth. So I am intentionally forgoing today’s workout, which is a swim, in the hopes that a bit of rest on the front end of the week will help me be in good standing for the rest of the week. We’ll see if I caught it in time.

So with that in mind, here’s how the week is shaping up:

Monday: Off day! It was supposed to be a swim day, but I am taking a minute to let these legs flush out and rest a bit. So instead of swimming, I’ll use the Normatec boots and my walking-around compression sleeves, do a bit of easy yoga and just generally try to take care of myself.

Tuesday: Threshold intervals on the bike. I’d like to use this workout time to ride with my CBG pals; we’ll see how the weather behaves and how my body is behaving tomorrow. The CBG rides are so peppy that I will definitely be at threshold! … or maybe even above. 

Wednesday: Progression run (speedwork) for 1:10. I feel like I have shirked speedwork a lot over the summer due to the plantar fasciitis and other random injuries, so it will be good to get this done if I can.

Thursday: Easy ride for an hour. I’ll plan on riding on Zwift with my dad – we always have the best time chatting and carrying on as the minutes tick by!

Friday: An hourlong swim (25-100 speed set). My shoulder – another injury from earlier this year – is feeling so good right now that I am really looking forward to hitting the pool! 

Saturday: A stamina (2-hour) bike ride followed by a 20-minute brick run. Now, as I recall, this ride was supposed to be a bit longer when I peeked ahead last week, but this past Saturday’s ride was so very poor that I bet TriDot pulled me back a little. Ugh. I hate when that happens but I understand it too. Fingers crossed this one goes better.

Sunday: Long run for 1:35. I’m really looking forward to this. I love when the long runs get truly longer! There’s nothing better than just venturing out and hitting the pavement for hours.

… and that’s that. Fingers crossed I bounce back very quickly from the brink of overtraining so I can actually DO these workouts! And in the meantime, I hope you have a great training week!