Taper Week in Review

Weekly Totals: Swim 7600 yards. Bike 48 miles. Run 29 miles.

Week in Review:

(Last Sunday was my last long ride.)

-Monday: Long run of 21 miles. Felt good for the most part. I did three 7-mile loops and it wasn't easy to convine myself to continue on each of those second and third loops. But I'm glad I went this distance, and have just been trying to allow my body to 'absorb' the fitness from the long run. Hopefully that's been happening...

-Thursday: Long swim of 3200 yards. Workout was as follows (in laps): 2-4-8-16-32-2 for a total of 64 (mindnumbing!) laps in the pool. I took 30s to 1minute of rest between each set. (Note: a 2.4 mile swim = 4224 yards, so this workout was about 75% of the distance I'll have to swim in the race.)

-I brought my triathlon bike to the shop earlier this week to get some work done. Since I had just hit the 3,000 mile mark on that bike (an odometer reading I accrued over the last two years), it was time for a new chain, and I figured I should have the cassette (the set of cogs on the rear wheel) cleaned at the same time. So my bike should be squeakly clean and pristine for my race.

-As for my cycling, I did all my riding this week on my road bike on the indoor trainer, and threw in some intervals to keep things interesting. Even watching tv doesn't make the time pass by quickly enough on the indoor bike trainer.

-I realized I took only one full day off (Saturday). Not good for a taper week. I'll make sure to go very easy these next few days leading up to the race.

Now just doing some final packing and assembling of equipment and gear in preparation for travel down to Florida.

** From now until race day, I'll post each day leading up to the race...

** Also, I'll post a "contest post" where I'll review my training and you can guess what my finishing time will be.... the closest guess will win a prize/souvenier from the race.