Ironman Canada Training Recap
Welcome or welcome back to my Ironman Training Recap – 27 Weeks! There’s only 27 weeks to race day. Last week’s training recap is here, in case you missed it. I felt pretty good with getting all my training done this week. It was a little challenging with managing my time since we were hosting and entertaining our family for a week, and traveling for work that cut into my weekend. I had to do my long ride before I left. And I’m happy to report I did entirely all early morning workouts, because I didn’t want to open up any chances of missing my workouts by working out later in the day. Not only do we love happy hours, but so does our family haha!
Swim
2 swims, 2500m and 2400m. Nothing new to report here with swims. We hit a new distance this week, 2500m. I am focusing on turning my arms over faster, so that I can speed up my swim pace. I can feel my back getting stronger and more muscular, so that’s kind of cool. Hopefully the focus on a faster cadence pays off, and I won’t have to pick up a swim tempo trainer. I also ordered a new swim buoy from Eney Buoy so I’m very excited to use that next week when I return from my work trip.
Bike
2 sessions, 1 hour heavy intervals and a 2 hour session. The bike sessions both felt great. We’ve been eating out all week, and I had a little bit too much to drink the night before my long bike ride session. I was a little worried about how that ride would go, but it ended up going really well! I hit my biggest power output to date, so that was super neat to see!
Run
2 sessions, 1 hills session and another short efforts run. I didn’t get a chance to do a long run on the weekend as I had to spend one of the days travelling. My short efforts run was the day after my all-day travel day. We are talking 16+ hours. It was only about 45 minutes long, and after about 6 hours of sleep. I wasn’t sure how it was going to go, but overall it felt really good!
Overall Thoughts
I am really proud of how this week of training went. We were also hosting our family for a little over a week, and I had limited options to train since I wanted to maximize my time with them and my hubby. It feels like my energy levels have also been higher throughout the day, which has been a nice benefit from early morning workouts. It was kind of a bummer to miss out on my long run, but we have plenty of time until my first half marathon of the year. So I won’t stress out about it too much.
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