Ahhh yes, week 32 and 33. I didn’t forget about you, but you lacked any training that was really worthy of individual posts.
Week 32, the week leading up to Vineman, was supposed to be taper, but it turned into a, “Oh shiz, my knee! Ice, rest, roll and repeat…” week. The week after Vineman, week 33, was what my coach called a transition week. This week was designed to allow me time to recovery mentally and physically from the months of training. I probably abused this week by only doing two workouts the entire week – both of which were under an hour each. Bute more important than the physical break was the mental break, allowing me to spend a week off prepping for my last day at work and my anniversary.
Back at it. Because of this pool, I can’t bring myself to go swimming at the indoor gym pool anymore.
New glasses with embarrassing MySpace-ish photo.
Last Bart commute.
Saying goodbye.
I apologize for the world’s most unappealing blog post ever, but I’ll opt out of posting all of the workouts from the two weeks and instead post the totals.
I closed out week 32 with:
7 hours and 37 minutes of training and racing: (Includes Vineman)
4,617.9 yards swimming
66.3 miles cycling
18.1 miles running
Many, many minutes rolling
I closed out week 33 with:
1 hour and 15 minutes of training:
1,600 yards swimming
4 miles running
Do you take a complete week or more off after a big race? How long before you’re back and training?
Happy Running!
I tend to take complete weeks off because I’m lazy like that.
It’s exciting that you’re starting a new job! And I totally have similar looking glasses. Great choice!
While training for CdA I did Oceanside 70.3 and got back into training right away – I think I took 2 days off. But that was because I had less than 3 months until CdA and was worried about losing fitness (and didn’t have a coach to tell me to rest)! And as you know after CdA I took 2 weeks off.
I think that taking last week super easy will be perfect for you. You have 4 months left til your race which is plenty of time and I bet you will come back stronger for having rested!
I love taking it somewhat easy after a big race, even mid-training cycle.
And I love your office, your commute set-up, your new glasses, and I definitely love your pool! Not an unappealing blog post at all – I think it’s fascinating simply because it’s all so different from my life. That’s why I love reading other people’s blogs!
I always intend on taking a week-ish off, and then before I know it, a month has gone by! And then when I try to run it’s like starting from ground zero again. Sigh. I’ll never learn my lesson.
Love the new glasses, super cute
I think a little mental break is much needed now and then, especially coming off of a big race and knowing you gave many bigger weeks ahead.
Cute glasses!
I love love love your glasses, where did you get them?
Thank you! I got them at my eye doctor, but they are Penguins. I’m going to do a blog post about all my glasses soon (I love glasses!).