Back in the water!

Our DE club pool opened up and I was able to jump in for 3 short sessions this week.  The water temp is up to 58 degrees here in Stone Harbor so hope to get into a bit of a regular swim routine now.

I did a 60 mile ride this mourning so beginning to increase my long ride endurance...all good.

stats for the week:

Swim: 4,500 yards
Bike: 308 miles
Run/hike: 26 miles
Time: 25.6 hours

and for the month:

Swim: 4,500 yards
Bike: 1,376 miles
Run: 136 miles
Time: 119.7 hours

onward and upward

Another week like the past 4-5....

Swim: 0 yards---although this is the week where I think I start swimming again!

Bike: 310 miles including a 40 miler on my TT bike--will start shifting more outdoors now and start doing longer rides

Run/Hike: 32 miles.  26 consecutive days which is a modern record for me.  Of course, when I was a lot younger, I ran everyday for a full year (and averaged over 10/day).

Time: 27:20.

and another week bites the dusk

Here are the results for week 19:

Swim: 0
Bike:  324 miles
Run/Hike: 35.4 miles
Time: 28:28

Here are a few charts that show how my training volume has evolved this year so far--hard to believe we are more than a third through the year!  I display the volume as a trailing 4-week average:

So, I've been able to settle in to a sustainable, and admittedly large amount of training.  Observations:

1. Swim: not happening yet, but I'm hopeful it will begin to over the next few weeks

2. Bike: I've been generally growing my frequency and volume to the point where I'm comfortably riding 2X/day and 300+ miles/week.  The big dip down was our 11 days in Utah snowboarding.  the small dip at week 15 was my out and back to Kansas to bring Jen home.  My last 4 weeks have all been over 300 miles.

3. My run/hike has been on a solid upward trajectory and I'm comfortably above 30 miles/week now. I've actually had 18 days in a row where I did one or the other.  I do see it leveling off now and gradually shifting more towards running.  All of this is very easy.

4. Training time is pretty locked in between 25 and 30 hours and the general upward trend I would expect to level off as this is a lot of training, even for me!

this week

Bike: 305 miles (skipped one workout)
Run/Hike: 38.3 miles
Time: 29:14

sameo/sameo

thinking about mixing things up a bit now...rode outside yesterday

Still...CoVid rules...

April

Here are the summary stats for April:

Swim: 0 (hope to get a chance to swim again soon)
Bike: 1,280 miles
Run/Hike: 130.2 miles
Time: 110 hours and 25 minutes

For comparison, when I was focused on getting ready for our Bolivian Mountaineering expedition last May, here is what April 2019 looked like:

Swim: 22k yards
Bike: 823 miles
Run/Hike: 273 miles
Time: 135 hours and 41 minutes

2018, might be a better comparison as I was focused on triathlon as I am this year (or at least was before CoVid):

Swim: 17k yards
Bike: 1,123 miles
Run: 54 miles
Time: 88:48

So compared to 2018, this is what April 2020 looked like:

-obviously no swimming as I lack a viable swim location at this point
-significant biking miles--all virtual this month (thanks Zwift!)
-considerably  more run/hike, especially the later
-investing significant time training even in the context of limited racing for an extended period of time.

Looking ahead to May:

-I hope to get my feet wet so to speak and try to get say maybe 10,000 yards this month
-Probably will get around 1,300 miles on the bike.  I plan to start riding a bit more again outside
-Continue in the 100-150 miles run/hike range
-100+ hours training