Snow Day Today

I got up this morning and had every intention of doing the 10 mile run for today but it was snowing again and I wasn't in the mood to knock out 10 miles with about 2 inches of snow on the ground. I'll knock it out tomorrow instead of the long spin. After all I'm only doing a marathon this year and not a triathlon so I need the running miles more than I need the bike/spin miles.

25 miles or 75 minutes on the Spin Bike

I got the spin workout in today. 25 miles or 75 minutes. I felt really good today so I must be getting over the head cold finally. I did skip the 3 mile run today since we had to go run some errands and it was late when we got home. Here's the data for the spin.

Zone 1: :37
Zone 2: 2:52
Zone 3: 1:06
Zone 4: 4:59

Day Off

I had to get up at the butt crack of dawn today and drive halfway across Germany for a class on Government Purchase Cards so there was no workout today. I'll push today's workout to Friday and call today the off day

Replaced The Speed Workout with a Pace Run

OK my commander wanted to run with me today so my 1 mile as fast as you can recover for 200m and repeat wasn't in the cards. We took off on a 5 mile run at his pace. I definitely spent most of the time out of the Zone 3 so I think you can chalk it up as a speed workout and I think we stayed close to my 4 hour marathon pace, but I can't tell you because I forgot to switch off of bike mode on the heart monitor so I don't get my normal by mile results. Here what data I did get:

Total Distance: 5:01
Total Time: 47:56
AVG Pace: 9:34

Zone 1: :08 Distance: 82ft
Zone 2: :15 Distance: 128ft
Zone 3: 6:36 Distance: .7 mi
Zone 4: 24:39 Distance: 2.6 mi
Zone 5: 16:57 Distance: 1.8

Let's Get Week 5 Started Right

OK they gave us the morning off today to recover from the Super Bowl, which didn't get done until about 4am our time. Did I watch the Super Bowl. Nope no interest in the two teams playing. But I did take advantage of the morning off to spend time with Macen and play with his train table. That meant no gym time. So I had to make up the cylce workout tonight at the gym. I didn't feel too bad after almost 2 weeks of no working out. Here's the data for my 60 minutes = 20 miles.

Zone 1: :09
Zone 2: 1:32
Zone 3: 48:18
Zone 4: 9:58

Week 5 Workouts

I'm late posting this. The last two weeks have been horrible between a nasty headcold and cough and moving into the house and getting our household goods I haven't gotten much in the way of workouts in so I'm wondering why I need a recovery week. Oh well I'll stick to the schedule.

Swim workouts explained.

First Real Workout In 10 Days

This headcold has been whupping my a$$. So it's a good thing that I got today and did 61 minutes of what was supposed to be a 70 minute run. Life is good, even I had a hard time managing my heart rate. Let's chalk that up to recovering from the cold. Here is the data:

Distance : 5:87mi
Total Time: 1:01:22
AVG Pace: 10:27
Total Calories: 922
AVG HR: 160 bpm
Max HR: 188 bpm
Pace:
Mile 1: 10:59
Mile 2: 10:13
Mile 3: 10:19
Mile 4: 10:06
Mile 5: 10:24
Mile .87: 10:40
Zone 1 Time: 0:38 Distance: 215ft
Zone 2 Time: 3:15 Distance: .3 mi
Zone 3 Time: 23:52 Distance: 2.3 mi
Zone 4 Time: 30:27 Distance: 2.9 mi
Zone 5 Time: 4:41 Distnace: .4 mi