Rainy Afternoon in Georgia

Well, my afternoon ride was cancelled due to thunderstorms and torrential rains.  Fortunately I was inside when the storms happened, not out on my bike getting ambushed by the weather like a few weeks ago in some town in Texas that shall remain nameless (*cough*Lubbock*cough*).  

I did get in a good run this morning, though.  It was a day for a tough run: 75 minutes at just under lactate threshold heart rate.  I felt solid the whole way, though my pace started to slow at the end.  I still maintained an average HR of 153, right inside my target zone of 150-155, and kept an average pace of just under 8.30 min/mile for a total distance of 8.8 miles.  As I spend more time focusing on running and specifically at running these heart rates, my speed and distance should increase with no rise in HR.  I'm working on a much longer post where I will explain all of the theory and planning to my run training this summer.  More to follow.

I finally backed up and tallied the numbers from last week.  Considering I spent the first part of the week packing and traveling, I put in a decent if unremarkable amount of work in the last few days.  In Thursday through Sunday I totalled four hours of training, evenly split between the bike and the run.  Not bad considering I hadn't done anything in the week and a half prior to that.  Those numbers are going to get a whole lot bigger over the next few weeks, though.  The idea will be to put in 2-3 hrs per day or more.

Yesterday was a forced rest day of sorts.  Mom and I completely cleaned out my room, most of which had been left untouched since I left for college five years ago.  It needed doing, but it set off my allergies big time, so I spent the rest of the day in a Benadryl-induced nap.  No training at all.  I'm feeling good today, though.  Shame the weather is so uncooperative.

Until next time, train hard, train smart.