Olympic Training: Week Three.

Though I'm in the middle of Week Four already, I did want to take a minute and record the events of last week.

This verse was the same as the one before it: Of my six planned workouts, I made it through five. The one that fell by the wayside this week was the long bike -- I just ran out of time, to be honest. My goal this week is to get through ALL SIX for the first time this season, and I'm feeling good about it.

But I digress.

Last week went thusly:

On Monday, my rest day, I lifted weights. Tuesday brought with it 42 minutes of swimming and, after work, 58 minutes of cycling on the trainer, which is getting more fun the more I use it. :)

On Wednesday, I lifted weights and ran for 29 minutes in the freezing cold. Then on Thursday, it was back in the pool for 45 minutes.

I lifted weights again on Friday and integrated some new strength machines into my program thanks to Denise. Then on Saturday I ran for 39 minutes and learned that I'm REALLY off my speed targets from marathon training. :) The cold just burns my trachea and lungs so badly!

I bowled three games on Sunday, and I've gotta say, I bowled them all quite poorly. I don't know what's the matter with me on league nights nowadays, but I feel like I'm back to the old days of gutterball city. I'm gonna try to slip away for a little bit of practice sometime this week to get things back in order on that front.

And that's that! All in all, not a bad week, but I need to start meeting all of my training requirements if I'm going to feel well-prepared for the season. Which, now that I've just registered for the Washington's Birthday 10K, begins in February (!).

Onward!

:)